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Artist:	ROSE, ETHAN
Title:	Ceiling Songs
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 071LP

"Between the machine and the composition there are the wonderful accidents. Whether it be taped-up player piano rolls, broken music boxes, or instruments of a more traditional sort, all the sounds on this album were carefully and randomly interrupted by my hands, before being arranged into larger pieces. For the most part it is a love of the archaic mechanizations of gears spinning and paper scratching, of textural sounds discovered in old things, that propelled me into making these songs. But, as the ideas came from the outside in so did they return from the inside out, blurring the line between my own artistry, and the natural inclinations of the materials at hand. This is what made the Ceiling Songs." -- Ethan Rose. Ceiling Songs is the first full-length release by Portland, Oregon musician Ethan Rose following a handful of long out of print small edition multiples issued on Locust over the last two years. Limited 180 gram vinyl only release w/ handpasted covers.

Artist:	ROSE, ETHAN
Title:	Ceiling Songs
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 084CD

"Ceiling Songs is a bewitching album of gently pulsing ambient drones, gurgling melodies, rhythmic scratches and reborn sound machines culled from inspiring, reinvented sound sources -- from taped up player piano rolls, broken music boxes, or instruments of a more traditional sort. To date, Portland-based artist Ethan Rose has produced two small run multiples for Locust: 2004's Miniature & Sea & 2005's The Dot & The Line in addition to a 2005 vinyl-only issue of Ceiling Songs."

Artist:	ROSE, ETHAN
Title:	Spinning Pieces
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 096CD

"On the heels of last year's celebrated Ceiling Songs debut full length by Portland, Oregon electronic musician Ethan Rose, comes Spinning Pieces -- a collation of nearly five years of small edition art object releases produced for Locust music. The aptly-titled collection chronicles one man's obsession with & magical approach to old mechanical noisemakers both big and little -- from a carillon in California ('Singing Tower'), to the sounds of old player pianos ('The Dot & The Line') in a dusty Portland piano shop to modified music boxes ('The Miniature & Sea'). Ethan's approach and music exudes a deep compositional sense and inviting warmth that often eludes the cold & foreboding genre of electronic music."

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