ROSY PARLANE : Jessamine

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Format: CD [TO:68]
Shipping Weight: 0.08lbs
Label: Touch

2,980円

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'This is New Zealand-based (and former Thela member) Rosy Parlane's second full-length release on Touch. His previous album, Iris (2004), was hailed by Jim Haynes in The Wire who wrote: "Jon Wozencroft's impeccable photography and design packages Rosy Parlane's Iris inside a predominantly blue package, inextricably linking the music to the emotional resonance of the color... He flushes his soundfields with cascades of digital fragments which he separates into two distinct compositional categories. On the one hand, Parlane stretches sounds from guitar, piano and organ into unrecognizable drones that swell into dense layerings, every once in a while coalescing into fluttering half-melodies. On the other, he emphasizes the textural qualities of those digital fragments, simulating the natural acoustics of ice crackling from trees in winter or the gentle patter of rain on a windowsill. When fusing these together by placing the textures against the backdrop of the drone, Parlane effectively builds pointillist sound environments with a profoundly human melancholia." With Jessamine, Rosy develops these themes, and continues to incorporate new musical elements from unconventional as well as orchestral instrumentation. To him, everything is an instrument: from household objects to nature sounds. But it is the human element which gives his work such a distinctive sound. Ranging from ambient to noise, he gives full rein to textures of living; to start, languid and mournful; later harsh and assertive. Jessamine is a magnificent follow-up to a classic Touch debut. Rosy Parlane: electric and acoustic guitars, piano, melodica, accordion, violin, trombone, snare drum, shimsaw, amplified sawblade, bowed metal, household objects, contact microphones, field recordings, radio, computer. Additional contributions by Marcel Bear, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lasse Marhaug, Anthony Guerra, Michael Morley, Donald McPherson, Matthew Hyland, David Mitchell, Stefan Neville and Campbell Kneale.

1 Part One 13:13
Saw [Shimsaw] – Marcel Bear
2 Part Two 16:29
Resonator Guitar [Resonator Guitar With Samurai Sword And Contact Microphones] – Tetuzi Akiyama
3 Part Three 19:08
Guitar [Individual Contributions] – Anthony Guerra, Campbell Kneale, David Mitchell, Donald McPherson, Lasse Marhaug, Matthew Hyland, Michael Morley, Stefan Neville

Luthier [Shimsaw And Amplified Saw Built By] – Marcel Bear
Mastered By – Denis Blackham
Photography By – Jon Wozencroft
Written-By, Recorded By, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Melodica, Accordion, Violin, Trombone, Snare, Saw [Shimsaw, Amplified Sawblade], Performer [Bowed Metal, Household Objects, Contact Microphones, Field Recordings, Radio], Computer – Rosy Parlane

Released in standard Digipak.
Written & recorded in Auckland, NZ, August 2004 - August 2006.
Mastered at Skye.
Already available at 'Touch 25' live events during October 2006.