Name: Colours Of Air
Brand: Loscil, Lawrence English

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KRANK236&nbsp;

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Limited edition

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2023-02-03

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Revol­ver

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Sales:8.875

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796441823628&nbsp;

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Loscil

Lawrence English

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Rock-Pop

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Kranky

Lawrence English is an artist, composer and curator based in Australia. His work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field, perception and memory. He utilizes visceral live performance and site-specific installation to create work that invites audiences to consider their relationship to listening, place and embodiment. Over the past decade, he has worked with sound as a medium for embodied experience.

In his gallery practice, many of *English’s* works draw on ideas of spatial field and relativity. His work Audition (2015) for the Asia Pacific Triennial utilizes massive acoustic mirrors within which a listener can greatly augment and amplify their capabilities as a listener.

As a composer, *English’s* 2014 album Wilderness Of Mirrors resonated strongly across Australia and the Northern Hemisphere. The album was widely praised for its provocative and individual voice in adventurous Australian music. His compositions blur the nature of acoustic and electronic sources, creating a relative sonic tabula rasa that allows listeners to freely interpret the music.

*English* has been actively involved in increasing recognition of sound as an art form within Australia through his record label Room40. He curates exhibitions showcasing international and Australian sound artists, including festivals such as Open Frame held annually in Sydney. Additionally, he works closely with musicians as a mentor while publishing essays on listening, perception, futuring ambient music, sustaining creative practices as an artist.

loscil (official capitalization) is an ambient project from Canada by Scott Morgan. Scott studied music at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and currently works as a sound director in the video game industry.
With a focus on creating atmospheric and immersive soundscapes, loscil's music takes listeners on a journey through mesmerizing sonic landscapes. Drawing inspiration from various genres including ambient, drone, and electronic music, loscil crafts intricate compositions that captivate the mind and transport the listener to another realm.
Similar artists to loscil include Pan-American, Brian McBride, Stars Of The Lid, Deaf Center, The Dead Texan, Tim Hecker, Chihei Hatakeyama, Murcof, The Sight Below, Tomasz Bednarczyk, Fennesz Lawrence English Rafael Anton Irisarri Benoît Pioulard Taylor Deupree Celer Windy & Carl Susumu Yokota Christina Vantzou Bvdub.

The union of composers Lawrence English and loscil aka Scott Morgan is seamless, sublime, and long overdue. Born of a conversation centered on the notion of “rich sources” as a forge for electronic music, Colours Of Air is a collection of recordings of a century old pipe organ housed at the historic Old Museum in Brisbane, Australia, which were then processed, transformed, and elevated into eight majestic electro-acoustic threshold devotionals. The timbre of the instrument and spatial fluctuations of room tone infuse the music with a subdued, sacred feel, like vaulted light in a nave of stained glass. They describe the album as “an iterative project, a reduction and eventual expansion,” sifting the swells and drones of the organ for every shivering shade of radiance. The tracks are named for the hue each piece suggests—from the gauzy levitational miasma of “Yellow” to the pulsing melancholic mirage of “Violet” to the seething twilit sandstorm of “Magenta.” Morgan and English are both adept at conjuring moods of muted grandeur, like landscapes veiled in dusk, still looming and luminous. Here their combined powers open pathways to heightened realms of deep listening and bewitching restraint, finding flickering infinities in ancient configurations of wind, brass, stone, and dust.

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