Snow Palms - Origin And Echo (Vinyl record)

Track Listings
Side: 1
1 : "1. Origin and Echo
2 : Rite
3 : White Shadows
4 : You Are Here
5 : Circling
Side: 2
6 : Echo Return
7 : Vostok
8 : Enclave
9 : Everything That Happened
10 : Black Snow
11 : Illuminations"

David Sheppard first conceived Snow Palms as a vehicle for music played on mallet instruments (metallophones, glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas, etc), devices that have featured intermittently across almost two decades-worth of the multi-instrumentalist's miscellaneous collaborative projects that include State River Widening, Ellis Island Sound, The Wisdom of Harry and Phelan-Sheppard, among a host of others. Snow Palms' 2012 debut album Intervals won a sheaf of approving notices for its ineffably cinematic blend of polyrhythmic percussion and richly melodic orchestration, partly achieved in collaboration with arranger-composer Christopher Leary (aka Ochre). Two years in the making, the follow-up builds on the foundations of its predecessor, with a heavy quotient of metallophones, glockenspiels and marimbas at its core, but largely eschews the latter's chamber arrangements in favour of soaring synth-scapes and a palette of spectral ambient and electronic textures. Despite that, Origin and Echo is a more performative record than was Intervals, its eleven organic, kinetic pieces meticulously constructed by Sheppard from initial percussive skeletons largely essayed instinctively, in free time, without click-tracks and with almost no guitar. The album is loosely predicated on themes of mirroring and rebounding, whether physical or metaphorical, inspired by everything from the gravity-defying parabolas of space flight to patterns of human migration and feelings of deja vu summoned by nostalgic journeys.

General

Studio:	Village Green
Performers:	Snow Palms
Format:	Vinyl record
Categories:	Promotions Music > Dance
LSN:	X80-CSC-DNE-1
Barcode:	5051083120722

Physical Specification

Weight (kg):

0.3

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