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.

Track Listings
1 : Everything Ascending - Snow Palms
2 : Circling - Snow Palms

Just over a year after the release of sophomore album 'Origin and Echo', Snow Palms return with a powerful two-track release - almost 17 minutes of music in total. 'Everything Ascending' sees Snow Palms mainstay David Sheppard's signature glinting electronics and crystalline glockenspiels augmented by modular synths, tapes, piano and soaring vocal flights.