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ARTIST
SAD CITY
TITLE
Gestures
FORMAT
12"
LABEL
UNDERWATER PEOPLES RECORDS
CATALOG #
UP 004EP
UP 004EP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
11/7/2011
"We first came across Sad City's (aka Gary Caruth) distinctive and unique sounds through our wonderful friend Julian Lynch after the pair met at university in Aberdeen, Scotland. Gary's been involved in deep, layered electronic music since his teenage years. Growing up just outside Belfast, surrounded by his Dad's old 7" disco records (his Dad was a cross community DJ during the height of the Troubles), Gary became fascinated by the production techniques of Cerrone and Giorgio Moroder. Over the years he became increasingly intrigued by minimalist composition, and his exposure to the musique concrete aesthetic and process eventually led him to experiment with reel-to-reel tape recording, sampling, and the use of high and low level frequencies. That concept - of finding and discovering new and organic ways to create music - lies at the very heart of this record. 'Shell (or Wash)', cinematically creeps through waves of flange and reverb, finally phasing into an incredible swell of unified, wavering noise. 'Night Time Trail' follows on with the shimmer and stabs of carefully manipulated sounds sustained by a steady house/dub groove. 'Jaya' then loops and merges a far-east sax line that gains intensity as the rhythm builds around the layers, ultimately breaking down to reveal a mesmerizing freeform sax flutter. The closer, 'Twilight (or Tightrope)' concludes the record in perfectly understated fashion, looping a dreamy piano line that washes and echoes alongside an emerging rhythm track."
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