HALO, Laurel - Raw Silk Uncut Wood - Vinyl (LP)
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Cat: LTNC 014. Rel: 23 Jul 18
Experimental/Electronic
Side 1 - Track 1. Raw Silk Uncut Wood Side 1 - Track 2. Mercury Side 1 - Track 3. Quietude Side 2 - Track 1. The Sick Mind Side 2 - Track 2. Supine Side 2 - Track 3. Nahbarkeit
Laurel Halo's latest release was apparently inspired by her recent film score work for Amsterdam-based arts collective Metahaven. Certainly, it's a largely becalmed and beguiling collection, experimental in ethos but also cinematic in tone. It contains a sextet of instrumental pieces that vary in style and tone from the loopy, otherworldly creepiness of "The Sick Mind" and droning "Supine", where ambient chords and manipulated cello notes combine to create a druggy soundscape, to the slowly unfurling, widescreen epics that open and close the mini-album. These, particularly "Raw Silk Uncut Wood" are intensely picturesque and beautiful, with Halo subtly shifting between epic ambient passages and the kind of sweeping, string-laden musical movements that mark out the finest cinematic compositions.
