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Perhaps appropriately, as autumn rolls in, Crow Versus Crow proudly presents, Version and Delineation, the first collaborative work from Caught In The Wake Forever and glacis.
Having individually released highly acclaimed records on such esteemed labels as Hibernate, Fluid Audio, Soft Corridor and Dronarivm, Version and Delineation sees Caught In The Wake Forever and glacis, working aliases of Fraser McGowan and Euan Millar-McMeeken respectively, deconstructing and expanding upon Neo-Classical and Ambient templates to produce a body of work that revolves around improvisation (with a small ‘I’) and noise (with a small ‘N’).
These six short works hinge upon glacis’ raw piano improvisations, recorded, without prior planning or subsequent revision, straight to IPhone Voice Memo software. That is not to say there is a flippancy to these recordings. Rather, they are considered, concentrated distillations of reflected emotional experience. precise and lyrical.
In response, Caught In The Wake Forever produces beds of glitching, warbled, heavily textured sound that lay in dialogue with the piano works. Using the Make Noise System Cartesian & Akai S20 Sampler to incorporate culled and processed snapshots of domestic minutiae, Caught In The Wake Forever’s intricate abstract compositions mirror the fragility and transient ephemerality of glacis’ piano pieces.
PRESS
“The piano pieces have the all the same homey, nostalgic charm glacis offered up on Metaphors (and its companion EP The Small Hours) released earlier this year while Caught in the Wake Forever resourcefully embellishes each sketch with complementary sonic detritus and filigreed noise that enhances the rustic aura without ever intruding on or subverting it. Understated, introspective music as welcoming as the first cool breezes and dappled light of autumn.” Stationary Travels
“The release is a short one, clocking in at just over eleven minutes in length. The tracks sound like pages out of a diary, like small snatches of time buried under the detritus of life or memory.” Drifting Almost Falling
“Two emotional paths that cross and merge into a unity entirely focused on the purity of free feeling. Pervaded by different formal coordinates but inspired by a similar approach, the creative paths of Fraser McGowan / Caught in the wake forever and Euan McMeeken / glacis find a precise fit, resulting in a short collection of fragile sketches that dance between the persuasive melancholy of the piano and the rough fragrance of grainy electronic frequencies.” So What
“This quiet release is a powerful one. The first collaboration between Caught In The Wake Forever and glacis is alive with understated beauty. The piano improvisations were recorded straight to cell phone, giving both immediacy and authenticity to the transient sound of brushed keys and those accidental sounds which blossom and fade within the piano’s surrounding environment. The background sounds act as quiet field recordings, too. Thanks to its unconventional recording method, the music feels snug and informal, and the modest, creaking piano poetically fits the medium on which it was recorded. Nothing else is required.” A Closer Listen
“The simple, haunting piano sketches (played by Euan direct to iphone) sound both fresh and as deeply rooted in memory as your first kiss. The floating familiarity of those ivory tones shimmer, rich and fragrant as fine olive oil, until they drop in fat succulent drips. Each golden patter erupts with scent and the giddy hope of the young in love.
Fraser’s ego-less sound manipulation keeps the melodies front and centre but fogs and smears the edges ever-so-slightly with perfectly judged echoes and additions. At times you hear the slight ghosting of the piano itself, the mechanics of the depressed keys, the creak of the lacquered lid. At others a child’s voice or the distinctive ‘whump’ as a heavy book closes its pages. Each sonic insertion is finely balanced and carefully, lovingly considered.
And of course, this all comes together in a perfect soft cloud, as comforting as saffron dissolved into warmed milk. It’s fucking marvelous.” Radio Free Midwich
“In this lies the profound essence of a meeting of sensitivity, happily materialized in twelve minutes of precious understatement, so suspended and fleeting that one cannot help but hope that they will become the starting point for a more organic combination of rare affinities, not only sound.” Music Won’t Save You
credits
released September 17, 2018
All tracks written, performed & recorded by
Caught In The Wake Forever & glacis.
Make Noise System Cartesian & Akai S20 Sampler performed by Fraser McGowan.
Upright piano performed by Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken,
recorded using iPhone Voice Memo software.
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