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"Since the mid-'80s, acclaimed ambient artist Jeff Greinke has been releasing compelling albums of evocative and seductive atmospheric music. On Late Rain, his 25th release, four featured musicians bring an abundance of acoustic instruments to Greinke's electronic soundscapes for an extraordinarily textural, hauntingly ethereal, and wonderfully organic music that is both ambient and alive. John Dilberto of Echoes Radio writes: 'I think this is what Andre 3000 is attempting to achieve except Greinke got there much more effectively. It's both better composed and at the same time, more intuitive. Late Rain harkens back a bit to Greinke's music from the '90s. He has been such a creative and underrated artist!' Following his album Oceanic, where Greinke performed all the music himself, he envisioned a follow-up based around an ensemble. Inspired to create a vibrantly energetic group sound, he enlisted four exceptionally skilled, intuitive musicians out of the Seattle new music scene to take part in his sonic adventure. He gathered everyone in a Seattle studio to record a live session of the album. This was the ensemble's first meeting; in not knowing what the others had been working on, an excited anticipatory charge was felt in the room. Greinke created an enticing environment for the players to interact within, working around his open-ended compositions. The rich variety of colors brought about by the electro-acoustic mix of sonorities blends seamlessly with Greinke's otherworldly soundbeds. The mood is enveloped in a soundscape thick and all-encompassing. The sonic layers are arranged, sculpted and processed with meticulous care resulting in an album of organically composed, thoughtful music rich in depth, atmosphere, mystery, and wonder."
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"Turning shadows into sonic emotional rivers, synthesist and composer Jeff Greinke's A Thousand Year Flood skirts the edges where modern classical, electronic and ambient music converge. Working with cellist/violist Heather Bentley, Greinke's first record for Projekt in 26 years is a hybrid of ambient chamber music and electroacoustic beauty. Throughout the near-hour-long set, atmosphere is critical to the impact as Greinke locates his paired-back minimalism within a setting of spaciousness and sensitivity. 'A Thousand Year Flood,' Greinke explains, 'represents further explorations in composing electroacoustic music which I began over a decade ago. This time rather than working with an ensemble I focus on one instrumentalist -- cellist/violist Heather Bentley. Whether working with scored parts, improvising under my direction, or freely exploring her own ideas over my sketched-out sections, Heather's thoughtful expressions fit seamlessly within my own. Heather's voice is unique, lending a more expansive breadth of harmonic richness and emotional body to these compositions.' 'In the last four-plus decades my work has veered in a few different directions, the exploration of raw sound itself and the treating and layering of such sounds to create complex and interesting textures, moods and atmospheres, has always been my primary focus.' On his 23rd release, Jeff Greinke realizes an engaging balance between consonance and dissonance, timbre and shade, ambience and aura. His impressionistic ambient chamber music shimmers in the passing light of melodic stringed textures and shifting electronic shadow. CD in four-panel digipak, limited edition of 300. RIYL: Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Johann Johannsson, Max Richter, Hania Rani."
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