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01. Etelin - Vixen and Kits
02. Etelin - Hour Here Hour There
03. Etelin - Water the Ferns
04. Etelin - Little Rig
05. Etelin - We Don't Have To Eat Our Hands
06. Etelin - Been Really Good Today
ARTIST
TITLE
Hui Terra
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SODA 001LP SODA 001LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/16/2018

"Hui Terra. The dreamlike shape of the half-heard word, abstracts with faint impressions of bucolic landscape, or handfuls of translucent and brightly-colored gemstones that hold odd, elusive, asymmetrical form. This enchanting, gently surreal debut album from Alex Cobb's Etelin project explores the power and playfulness of impulsive action diffused through electro-acoustic and ambient sound. This music was created with digital synthesizers and a sampler in the four months immediately following the birth of his first child, a hazy period marked by a lack of regular sleep and a diet of INA-GRM, Nuno Canavarro's Plux Quba (1988), and Microstoria's Init Ding (1995) records that appeared to produce both stimulating and soothing effects on a newborn's nascent consciousness. Recorded and arranged at all hours, this is an album that reflects on moments of tumult and fragility. Cobb sews small sharpnesses and surprises into its movements to uncover different aspects of each sound source, doubling as hypnic starts cast to advance and vary the narrative in subtle and unexpected ways. Sound and atmosphere manifest in eccentric, alchemical fashion, as though forming in processes of sublimation -- solids dissipating into vapor -- and deposition -- clouds resolving and dropping to the ground in piles -- to an obscure and domestic rhythm. There's the purveying sense of moving within the boundaries of small, hermetic ecosystem. This is underscored and doused by a slow, blooming sense of warmth; growing joy without bombast. Even the more startling textures conceal this same truth and emphasis, such as the alien, sour salt-butter electronic babble in "Little Rig", largely sampled from Cobb's son's voice at just a week old. It is emotional music -- devoted, affectionate, and playful." --Matthew Kent, February 2018. Edition of 500, includes download.