Browse by Artist: DAVIS, GREG

Artist:	DAVIS, GREG
Title:	Somnia
Label:	KRANKY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	KRANK 074CD

"Greg Davis is best known for his two albums on the Carpark label; Arbor and Curling Pond Woods. Somnia collects drone-oriented material Greg Davis has been working over the last two to three years with the final track, 'Mirages (version 2)' being a recording from spring 2004 using a Schaaf punch card music box and computer. Each track features a single instrument (bowed psaltery, acoustic guitar, harmonica, Fender Rhodes, Magnus chord organ) played by Davis and then filtered through a computer. The tones that come out of the process bear little immediate resemblance to the instrument of origin, taking on extended and diffuse forms of their own."

Artist:	DAVIS, GREG
Title:	Diaphanous
Label:	LUX NIGRA (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	LN 027EP

"This Lux Nigra vinyl is set to coincide with the issue of his third album Somnia for the Kranky label, collecting drone-oriented material Davis has been working over the last couple of years, and features an extended track and 2 bonus cuts to that fine full length. The lengthy a-side piece 'Diaphanous' included here, in fact, is an extended version of an edit which will appear on the CD-only Kranky album, and finds Davis in his most organic and involving form yet, playing toy harmonica, piano and a six string acoustic guitar that's then slowly and breathlessly treated by a delicately handled laptop. The tones that come out of the process bear little immediate resemblance to the instrument of origin, taking on extended and diffuse forms of their own. As a bonus, the two b-side pieces are exclusives, 'Deterior' may otherwise be located somewhere near the crisp improvisation of someone like Rosy Parlane or perhaps a less abrasive Fennesz, 'Swell' is almost entirely benign, beautifully weighted waves of melody, allowed to gradually unspool, like finely spun wool."

Artist:	DAVIS, GREG
Title:	Mort Aux Vaches
Label:	STAALPLAAT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MORT GD

"1) Field recording from the garden at Hotel Rembrandt across the street from VPRO studios. Fender rhodes improvisation. site specific. relocationing. 2) Convolved bit reduced slowed down glockenspiel tones and Casio sk1 organ drones. disintegration. colliding angled sounds. 3) Melodica chords. New years noise maker clickers. deconstructed cumulus beats. 4) Chord organ blankets. Scissors. paper. maracashakers. coalescing rhythms. First guitar. 5) Slow motion combines with fast motion. Chimes. Resonance. 6) Serein = a mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset. Tripleting gallops as three and two. 7) Tibetan singing bowls. microscoping. 8) Emerging from sleep to a smile and a hug. Plenty of sunshine. Second guitar. 9) Feedback valleys and dungeons. Quagmire. Tube tappings. 10) Thickets can be endlessly wonderful and complex. Beautiful inside. Altering preconceptions of noise. 11) Northern Arizona rainpipe. Sine tones. After Lucier. 12) Dancing with birds, rainshine, singing joy. 'from their eyes, the people must look like miniature toys.' 13) Children splashing in a bathtub. Arizona creek."

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