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3-4 Weeks
01. Cleared - The Key
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02. Cleared - Bonded
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03. Cleared - Of Air (12:56
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04. Cleared - Mesa
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05. Philip Jeck - The Key
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06. Fennesz - Bonded
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07. Bethan Kellough - Of Air
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08. Olivia Block - Mesa
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ARTIST
CLEARED
TITLE
The Key
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TOUCH
CATALOG #
TO 116CD
TO 116CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/20/2020
Cleared
is the Chicago-based duo of
Steven Hess
and
Michael Vallera
formed in the latter part of 2009 as a project to focus on repetition and patience as central elements of composition. Hess and Vallera have previously worked in various contexts of improvisational, long-form and experimental music -- Hess contributed to
Fennesz
's
Seven Stars
, released on Touch in 2011 (TONE 044CD). Cleared is an effort to take the knowledge both have gained from these arenas in order to build hypnotic patterns of sound and rhythm.
The Key
was recorded in the spring of 2019 at Electrical Audio in Chicago Illinois with engineer
Greg Norman
. After a silence of several years, Cleared went into the studio with a set of drawings and notes describing the arcs of various systems for the creation of soundscapes and rhythmic patterns. There was no rehearsal, demo recordings or any other preparation besides theses diagrams which were designed by both Hess and Vallera in tandem. The logic behind this strategy was to erase the confines of previous releases and return to the origin of the project, which simply began as an open improvisation between the two musicians, centering a focus on slow, gradual changes and a meditative sensibility. The recordings were made with a specific attention to sonic detail and fidelity, resulting in hours of material that was arranged and mixed over the next year by Michael Vallera in his home studio. The resulting four tracks were further investigated and reimagined by
Philip Jeck
,
Christian Fennesz
,
Bethan Kellough
, and
Olivia Block
, adding another form of
The Key
as a collection of discreet and weighted sonic explorations. CD in DVD case.
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