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TU 013LE-LP
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"Through the interaction of dulcet textures and harmonious melodies, infused with Greek bouzouki string plucks, sporadic piano and violin, enigmatic musician Gabriel Brady laments the everyday with daring simplicity on his lustrous alt-ambient debut for the Tonal Union imprint. Across its seven vignettes, Day-Blind is life animated as Brady makes possible an everyday encounter with the transcendent. Attracted by the sensibilities of old French film scores, especially those by Michel Legrand and Jean Constantin and the sheer simplistic beauty of forbearing composers Debussy, Satie, and Ravel, Brady cites inspiration in a warm earnestness to the melodies; and the complete, unmediated feeling that such scores and orchestrations create. Written and produced in his bedroom dorm at Harvard, in Cambridge Massachusetts, Brady recorded organic instruments (violin, bouzouki) before routing them through a compact modular synth setup acting as a sound chamber for further manipulation (loops, effects, textures). In striving to make sense of the ordinary, on Day-Blind, Brady's works are invariably imbued with a sense of serenity and tension. Day-Blind too explores themes of memory, nostalgia, and melancholia which emanate from its lo-fi, intimate and sensitive nature. Through a hazy smokescreen of delays, tape loops and decays Brady contemplates a typical post-modern-era dilemma of wistful longing and lonesome nostalgia, existing parallel/alongside contentment and staying in the present moment. The bare, reflective 'Streetlight' with its pitch-shifted and vari-speed piano, spliced with a weeping violin melody performed by Kalman Strauss, precedes the re-constructive 'Untitled' with a heavily filtered looping piano and rhythmic pulse. 'Ambrosial', dims the spotlight to a close being the most textural-laden track, combining loose sonic materials similar to Eno's Ambient 4 collage techniques. By channeling his own acute musical sensibilities by means of evocative voicings, Brady momentarily deconstructs, warps and reshapes reality."
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