Browse by Artist: PACIONE, ADAM

Artist:	PACIONE, ADAM
Title:	Sisyphus
Label:	ELEVATOR BATH
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	EEAOA 023CD

"Adam Pacione's debut album (following some limited edition CDRs) is Sisyphus, an organic and fluid collection of haunting ambience, brimming with warmth and emotion. The recordings have a contemplative, solitary air about them, and this is a stunningly gorgeous set -- leading the listener through these sound-works in perfect succession, with each piece flowing effortlessly into the next. Sisyphus has an aquatic or womblike feel, as if the composer was calmly observing and documenting his surroundings while completely submerged. And the weight of water has never been so meticulously described as within these sounds. Much like the album's mythical namesake, Sisyphus is largely concerned with repetition: Sounds and melodies are reiterated; Passages are looped with deliberate pacing. And there is beauty and ultimately reward to be found in these recurrences. The desired effect is flawlessly delivered, and the bliss of Sisyphus entangles."

Artist:	PACIONE, ADAM
Title:	Dobranoc
Label:	ELEVATOR BATH
Format:	PIC. DISC
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	EEAOA 029LP

"Dobranoc contains more than 40 minutes of new music utilizing field recordings, guitars, shortwave radio, analog keyboards & Moog filters. Haunting and yet serene, overflowing with contemplative and melodic tones, these are mostly long-form pieces: 'Always' builds slowly into a monolithic block of sound, while in the title track, layer after layer of warm atmosphere appears and then unravels into a sea of tranquility. This is three-dimensional music, strikingly elegant, from a modern master of the art. This picture disc LP is adorned with Pacione's lovely full-color macro photography circa 1995. The colorful sounds and images are bound together into a unified abstraction, dreamlike in its beauty. Adam Pacione has been a fixture in the upper echelon of ambient drone for the last five years with releases on Elevator Bath, Infraction, and his own Bee Eater Recordings imprint. Pacione is also a highly skilled photographer with solo exhibitions and nearly a lifetime of experience under his belt. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas. This picture disc LP has been released in an edition of 268 copies."

Artist:	PACIONE, ADAM
Title:	From Stills to Motion
Label:	INFRACTION
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	INFX 023CD

"An age of virtual audio saturation, of pre-articulated sound. Expressivity, once an array of possible voices, is ever more probabilized. Originality, once primary criterion, is cast from the platform, problematized. Wondering, late in modernity's day, what does it take to make a noise that matters? A keen-eared recontextualizer, an alchemist who can make sound, found or unfound, to walk its own way, outside the ready-made parade. Adam Pacione is one such new recruit to a group of like-minded musicians, kindred spirits Brian Grainger (Milieu), Mike Bennett (Zimiamvian Night), and Kiln, who have brought the ferment from their sound stills to the Infraction table. That label is now streaming a vital strain of new backwoods ambient, this latest from deep in the heart of (Ft. Worth) Texas -- experimental, but harmonically-inclined, apparently lo-tech, but substantially audiocratic. Pacione's distinction lies in drawing the vectors of several lines of musical enquiry into a trajectory which leads to a suggestive affective place. Echoes of the enviro-drone clan, low-lying labels like and/OAR, Twenty Hertz -- old familiars of Infraction, the silhouettes of whose kinfolk -- Keith Berry, Paul Bradley -- are heard remotely. Pacione starts from base material, conventional instruments, mainly guitars, the odd analog synth and sample, but no tone is left unturned. Like a tenderized but still chewy analog to recent Kranky fuzz-blur harmonizations, his source-sounds quietly exult in altered states -- compressed, granularized, weathered, distressed... in a word (Pacione's) 'grexed.' Grex comes from cross-breeding -- environment traits spun with the string-steel of source, further fleshing out, the familiar contour lent unfamiliar edge. A delicate and intricate weave results -- a warp to the weft, dissonance offset by harmony, consonance subverted by pitch-bend. Basinski may have modeled the suggestivities of disintegration, mate Milieu pointed the emotive caché in sepia-stained sonorities, and Boards brothers the heart-swoop from modulating detune."

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