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01. Cleared - Hexa
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02. Cleared - Magnetic Bloom
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03. Cleared - Time in Return
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04. Cleared - 53S (feat. Chris Watson)
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05. Cleared - Sunsickness
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06. Cleared - Ash
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07. Cleared - Oval Waters
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ARTIST
CLEARED
TITLE
Hexa
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TOUCH
CATALOG #
TO 126CD
TO 126CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/11/2024
"
Cleared
, the duo of
Steven Hess
and
Michael Vallera
has re-emerged with
Hexa
, their sixth release and third for the Touch label. Steven Hess recorded sessions in the group's practice space, handing them over to Vallera, who in turn added his home recordings, mixing and manipulating them. The final product provides only the barest of hints to any instrumental points of origin, such is the extent of their intermixture.
Hexa
brings the listener interiority and depth, beginning with the slow build of the title track, where chiming details prompt a cycling drone. The 'Magnetic Bloom' pulsations give way to granulated smears, while the well-named 'Time in Return' plays with repetition and layering. The density in the tracks relents with '53S,' a recording from a train station contributed by the field recordist
Chris Watson
. The spatial sensations brought by the clanking and creaking offer a respite of sorts before the accretion of processed magnetics resume on the aptly entitled 'Sunsickness.' Clouds of static overwhelm the initial melodies of 'Ash.' Pulses, bursts, and points of electronics breach the layered blankets and sheets of sound, as with the concluding track, 'Oval Waters.' If you need to identify a genre locale, put
Hexa
on the side of the street where current electronic music lives. However you categorize the album, it is an absorbing listen front-to-back. Each track emerges with layers peeling and/or accreting and new details revealing themselves." --
Bruce Adams
, 2024
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