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Jonny Nash and Suzanne Kraft unleash part three of the Melody As Truth Studio, or MATstudio, vinyl documents... hese records are intended to catalog some of the experiments, explorations, accidents, and fortuitous events that regularly take place at their Amsterdam studio. Each record features two compositions created from a collage of works.
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MAT 014LP
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After a seven-year hiatus since the release of their debut LP on ESP Institute, Kyle Martin and Jonny Nash's Land Of Light return with The World Lies Breathing, their sophomore album for Melody As Truth. Written and composed over the course of two years, The World Lies Breathing reflects the pair's shared development towards spacious, abstract composition crafted from a wide range of contrasting sound sources. Utilizing a combination of acoustic instruments, contact microphones and Martin's self-built modular synthesizer The World Lies Breathing focuses on the space between sounds, conjuring up an organic yet alien landscape that exists on the edge of an unknowable void.
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MAT SS2-LP
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Second outing from Jonny Nash and Suzanne Kraft in their MATstudio series. These records are intended to catalog some of the experiments, explorations, accidents, and fortuitous events that regularly take place at their Amsterdam studio. Each record features two compositions created from a collage of works.
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MAT 012CD
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The music presented on Framed Space: Selected Works 2014-2017 consists of a selection of works from the first three years of Melody As Truth. The first disc features the work of Jonny Nash, comprising of tracks from Phantom Actors (2014), Exit Strategies (MAT 002LP, 2015), and Eden (MAT 006LP, 2017). Two unreleased tracks feature on the disc, "Treasure" and "Sayan". "Treasure" was recorded with Gigi Masin in 2014. "Sayan" was recorded in Bali, during the same recording sessions as those that resulted in Eden. The second disc features Diego Herrera's work as Suzanne Kraft, comprising of tracks from Talk From Home (2015) and What You Get For Being Young (2016). Two unreleased tracks also feature on the disc, "Meetings" and "Seven Day Turnaround". "Meetings" was recorded in Amsterdam shortly after Herrera relocated to the city in 2015. "Seven Day Turnaround" was made during the What You Get For Being Young sessions, also in 2015. Both Nash and Herrera now live in Amsterdam, where they continue to exchange ideas and experiment on new works for MAT. The music on Framed Space is intended to give the listener an insight into the first chapter of an ongoing story. Double-CD featuring four previously unreleased tracks, exclusive to this set.
"So far, his Melody As Truth label has been geared along exactly those lines. Modest in sound and scope, yet unusually committed to its cozy parameters, the Amsterdam label has, in its three-year run, dedicated itself exclusively to quiet, contemplative ambient experiments by Nash and his friend Suzanne Kraft (aka Diego Herrera, a former Los Angeleno now also based in Amsterdam). Each release so far has offered a snapshot of a process or a mood. Nash's 2014 EP Phantom Actors was a set of limpid new age studies for synth and piano that could have been mistaken for a lost Mark Isham demo. The following year, his Exit Strategies modeled itself upon the liquid guitars of the Durutti Column and Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie. Kraft's 2015 album Talk From Home, meanwhile, tackled airy synth-and-guitar miniatures, while last year's masterful What You Get for Being Young used similar sounds, just fewer of them, and ended up being as evocative, and elusive, as the scent of a crisp autumn morning." --Philip Sherburne on Passive Aggressive (MAT 008LP, 2017), Pitchfork
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MAT 011LP
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Tourist Kid's first release for Melody As Truth, Crude Tracer. Recorded in Perth and Melbourne between 2016 and 2017. Though the idea of movement between two places could be a somewhat romantic afterthought, a more palpable sense of dislocated unease creeps up on the listener throughout the album. On "Discourse II", stutters of digital trash segue seamlessly into a plateau of serene, glassy ambience -- and on "Bacterial", the hiss and sting of rehashed foley seems to dance around a plaintive, oh-so delicate piano solo. These striking contrasts are deftly managed, playing upon notions of digital noise and ambient, while never feeling weighed down by the limits of reference or gesture. Indeed, numerous touchstones to Tourist Kid's earlier work -- and to that of contemporaries -- are synthesized and expanded upon to great detail and atmosphere. Crude Tracer sits in its own adeptly nuanced and assured space. Tourist Kid's production encompasses all manner of tangible and otherworldly sounds as a vehicle to explore something far more intriguing than a simple instrumental fetish -- so much so that the overwhelming sting of blasted detritus or a broken and bent vocal is capable of eliciting such delicate impulses as glistening, heart-wrenching piano chords. It's a unique -- and very special -- kind of beauty that Tourist Kid gracefully achieves with Crude Tracer.
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MAT 010EP
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With his debut Melody As Truth release entitled Universel, Palta almost paints with sound. Working a defined palette with subtlety and clarity of vision, the listener is taken to places that are alien yet somehow familiar; a world whose delicate exterior belies a profound depth and power.
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MAT 009LP
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Melody As Truth's S.K. collaborates with D.K. (Antinote) on a six track mini-LP, recorded in Paris during early 2017.
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MAT 008LP
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Next up for Melody As Truth is Passive Aggressive, the first collaborative album release from Jonny Nash and Suzanne Kraft.
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MAT 006LP
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18 months after the release of his acclaimed Exit Strategies (MAT 002LP, 2015), Jonny Nash returns with Eden, an album recorded in Bali and the United Kingdom throughout 2016. While many of his aural trademarks are present -- think glistening guitars, drifting synthesizer chords, and subtle piano motifs -- Eden feels a little different: humid, dense, and decidedly "murkier" than previous outings. Check, for example, the gently pulsing rhythms, layered vocal samples, and hazy ambient house era textures of "Maroon Crisp", or the sparkling melodies, chiming percussion, and bubbly drum machine matters of "Ding Repair"; both tracks are as beautiful and life-affirming as you'd expect, but feel far more widescreen in vision. Eden is full of these kinds of moments. There's the undulating mysticism of "Conversations With Mike", the delay-laden, outer-space ambience of "Down In Babakan", and the crystal clear brilliance of closer "Lime".
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MAT 002LP
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Jonny Nash (Gaussian Curve) returns to Melody As truth following his 2014 Phantom Actors EP. Exit Strategies puts Nash's layered guitar textures at center stage, further demonstrating his ability to draw emotion from the simplest of elements. A glimmering mini-LP of lush and spacious compositions, surrounded by Nash's own unique air and atmospheric touch. Beautiful.
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