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01. MEMOTONE - Onset
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02. MEMOTONE - Stalker
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03. MEMOTONE - Empty Platform
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04. MEMOTONE - Low Light
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05. MEMOTONE - The Home We Can't Go Back To
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06. MEMOTONE - Dense Clouds Wall Up
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07. MEMOTONE - With Time Between Us
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08. MEMOTONE - Down Illusion
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09. MEMOTONE - Suburb
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10. MEMOTONE - Rooftop
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11. MEMOTONE - Djakka
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12. MEMOTONE - Ghost Part 1 & Part 2
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ARTIST
MEMOTONE
TITLE
I Sleep. At Waking
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BLACK ACRE
CATALOG #
ACRE 004CD
ACRE 004CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
10/23/2012
Memotone
lives in a 400 year-old haunted cottage in the middle of dense woodland, where he has created a stark and vivid trip through a broken fog-clogged urban landscape that carries echoes of the music of such luminaries as
Mark Hollis
(
Talk Talk
),
Alva Noto
and
Ryuichi Sakamoto
,
John Cage
and
Nico Muhly
, amongst others. The young
William Yates
mastered over 11 instruments, while absorbing music from
At The Drive In
,
The Notwist
,
DJ Shadow
and
J-Dilla
, in the process creating his own musical language. With his consummate musicianship as a base, William shirked the beckoning of a more traditional conservatory path to bury his instrumentation deep in a bed of broken circuits and loops
I Sleep. At Waking
is an esoteric path through the night rendered with daylight clarity. From the skittering and snarling "Djakka," to the emotive clarinet fugue of "Docklands" to the sea-sawing
Satie
-esque piano on "With Time Between Us," it's all suggestive of the perfect soundtrack to the most suggestive and terrifying cinema you're yet to see. Indeed, album track "Stalker" is directly inspired by the
Andrei Tarkovsky
film of the same name. Ambience, reverb and field recordings play a big part in creating the cavernous or intimate atmospheres on the record, as well. With his previous works earning him plaudits from Radio 1 DJs like
Huw Stephens
and
Gilles Peterson
in addition to glowing notices from
The Wire
and Boomkat (single of the week), it's clear that
I Sleep. At Waking
is sure to be nudging its way onto 2012's year-end lists.
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