Description
Title: Randstad
Artist: Gregory Taylor
Label: Palace of Lights
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 700261465012
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2018-06-22
Number of Discs: 1
2018 release including digital downlowd that features the bonus EP Trajectum. Randstad is a kind of hermetic diary of a year living in the Randstad – a term the Dutch use to describe their own megalopolis that encompasses Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. In it”s own way, the work runs contrary to today”s assumed absolute limitlessness of musical possibility, favoring a reduced expatriate sonic toolkit (composed of Cycling ”74”s Max, a modest Eurorack, and a handheld digital recorder). It”s entries combine the sounds of a “”new home”” (house keys, birds on the terrace, fireworks at the New Year) that are stretched/rotated/folded/spindled/annealed into a set of audio vignettes. The results are snapshots of sensation, location, movement, and image: a score for re-orienting yourself in new, changing environments. To paraphrase Roethke, we learn by going not only where to go, but how to go.
Tracks:
1.1 To Kijkduin By Monorail
1.2 Shoulder Alignment
1.3 Prayer Wheels – Voorschoten
1.4 Alchemical Refrigeration
1.5 Illuminated By Optimism – Teyler
1.6 Imagined Anaphora
1.7 Cockpitgebouw – Trajectum Ep Digital Bonus Track
1.8 Satellite Campus (Cohort) – Trajectum Ep Digital Bonus Track
Audio Sample:
All soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.
