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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Breathing Instruments
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
TOUCHTHEPLANTS
CATALOG #
TTP 107LP
TTP 107LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
9/18/2020
Compilation album curated by
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
. The directive for the composers featured on
Breathing Instruments
was, in effect, to accentuate the ways in which instruments sound like they are breathing. Some have recreated the literal experience of feeling or hearing the human breath. Others take a more abstract approach, where "breathing" is more motif than object of emulation. From hushed pulsations and distant vocals in
Kathryn Shuman
's "Objects" to
Julianna Barwick
's blissful "Newborn", the tracks give sonic form to the experience of emerging from the womb. There is also a striking concurrence of woodland sounds throughout this collection from the ghostly tones of
Emily A Sprague
's "Flew" to
Cool Maritime
and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's dew dripped "Daybreak". Meanwhile the undulating seascape of
Geotic
's "Uncaught" conjures moments of
Evening Star
by
Fripp/Eno
(1975), but supplants that album's crystalline production with the warm crackle of vinyl. If you learn only one thing from
Breathing Instruments
it is that we are inextricable from the natural world. Also features
Dim Arc
,
Sunmoonstar
,
Fools
,
Constant Shapes
,
Jeremiah Chiu
,
Kacey Johansing
,
Mary Lattimore
,
Andy Strain
,
Bana Haffar
, and
Ulfur
.
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