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The Ground Our Sky

Saariselka

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The debut album by renowned composers and ambient Americana pioneers, Chuck Johnson and Marielle V Jakobsons (Date Palms). There is an old Norse myth that says the great northern glaciers stored energy until they burst with fluorescent light, creating the Aurora Borealis. Saariselka is inspired by the meeting of earth and light, where slowly moving land masses merge with enveloping light fields. This sonic collaboration between composers Marielle Jakobsons (Fender Rhodes, organ, synthesizers) and Chuck Johnson (pedal steel guitar and treatments) is as expressive as it is enigmatic. On their debut album, The Ground Our Sky, a kind of new ambient Americana is unearthed and explored. The respectively singular artistry of Jakobsons and Johnson collectively craft a universe of remarkable resonance. It is a vibrant, seemingly infinite sway of sounds that exists unmoored in time and space. The Ground Our Sky gets its lift by pondering the universe not while staring up at the sky, but rather down at the ground – gazing into the earth, where we are all individually and collectively a meeting of the ground and the sky. This inverted perspective is at the heart of Saariselka’s music. That feeling of becoming ungrounded is universal and inevitable – and increasingly necessary to seize those rare opportunitiesfor meaningful changes in perspective.

Label
Temporary Residence Ltd.
Genre
Modern Composition
Artist
Saariselka
Released
18/10/19
Catalogue Number
TRR336CD
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Label
Temporary Residence Ltd.
Genre
Modern Composition
Artist
Saariselka
Released
18/10/19
Catalogue Number
TRR336CD

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