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Cat: MIALP 035. Rel: 31 Oct 16
Ambient/Drone

Side 1 - Track 1. LobbySide 1 - Track 2. ThreadSide 1 - Track 3. White LakeSide 1 - Track 4. Path To LucySide 2 - Track 1. Stone BeaconSide 2 - Track 2. WeirSide 2 - Track 3. LoftSide 2 - Track 4. Thunder NightSide 3 - Track 1. Lamp MienSide 3 - Track 2. The ClearingSide 3 - Track 3. Fog AnimalSide 3 - Track 4. EloySide 4 - Track 1. Social Lucy WaltzSide 4 - Track 2. The HallSide 4 - Track 3. ForestSide 4 - Track 4. CorridorSide 4 - Track 5. End Station

Apparently inspired by "Old silent 8mm film reels and historical architecture", the Norwegian duo of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland have produced a lambent debut that recalls the likes of William Basinski (particularly the 'Disintegration Loops' indebted 'Lobby'), Marsen Jules and Harold Budd. Over layers of warmly battered aural sediment, Deaf Center build the kind of vista-expanding, piano tinged music that has you thinking you're in your very own film. Manifesting itself in the epic iciness of 'Thread', or the etiolated Nyman piano of 'White Lake', Deaf Center have a seemingly bottomless supply of aural dignity and pathos on which to draw. Other highlights include the tense strings and snatched choirs of 'Stone Beacon', the thrumming piano of 'Loft' and the soaring orchestral pomp of 'Thunder Night'. Just incredible music.