Concision by A Light Sleeper
These are keys unpressed, strings unstruck, air undone; the before and after of something else all at once.
Following fast on the heels of Brevity, Another New Calligraphy presents the latest artifact in the always intensifying world that is A Light Sleeper: Concision. It was four years ago that we stumbled across two gentleman gently blowing minds in a woefully gone church-space. Debuting as a quintet with this release, the group’s reach has grown to relatively immense proportions yet still retains its graceful clockwork core. Sounds pummel one second and tiptoe the next, lacing through each other in a systematic confusion. This is a beautiful noise, and if the past is any indication, only the current chapter in A Light Sleeper’s onward march.
Concision additionally features the conclusion of Robyn Detterline and Bill Ripley’s storyline from the preceding release. Drawing upon phrases from the lyrics as inspiration, this supplementary tale weaves a narrative based upon the quiet damage of the everyday and features two families separated by time sharing a single home. Read on as the characters pass each other unknowingly, lost in their private melancholia, shattered dreams, and wrinkling bathtub toes.
CD in numbered, handmade packaging with mini-book • 2012
These are keys unpressed, strings unstruck, air undone; the before and after of something else all at once.
Following fast on the heels of Brevity, Another New Calligraphy presents the latest artifact in the always intensifying world that is A Light Sleeper: Concision. It was four years ago that we stumbled across two gentleman gently blowing minds in a woefully gone church-space. Debuting as a quintet with this release, the group’s reach has grown to relatively immense proportions yet still retains its graceful clockwork core. Sounds pummel one second and tiptoe the next, lacing through each other in a systematic confusion. This is a beautiful noise, and if the past is any indication, only the current chapter in A Light Sleeper’s onward march.
Concision additionally features the conclusion of Robyn Detterline and Bill Ripley’s storyline from the preceding release. Drawing upon phrases from the lyrics as inspiration, this supplementary tale weaves a narrative based upon the quiet damage of the everyday and features two families separated by time sharing a single home. Read on as the characters pass each other unknowingly, lost in their private melancholia, shattered dreams, and wrinkling bathtub toes.
CD in numbered, handmade packaging with mini-book • 2012
These are keys unpressed, strings unstruck, air undone; the before and after of something else all at once.
Following fast on the heels of Brevity, Another New Calligraphy presents the latest artifact in the always intensifying world that is A Light Sleeper: Concision. It was four years ago that we stumbled across two gentleman gently blowing minds in a woefully gone church-space. Debuting as a quintet with this release, the group’s reach has grown to relatively immense proportions yet still retains its graceful clockwork core. Sounds pummel one second and tiptoe the next, lacing through each other in a systematic confusion. This is a beautiful noise, and if the past is any indication, only the current chapter in A Light Sleeper’s onward march.
Concision additionally features the conclusion of Robyn Detterline and Bill Ripley’s storyline from the preceding release. Drawing upon phrases from the lyrics as inspiration, this supplementary tale weaves a narrative based upon the quiet damage of the everyday and features two families separated by time sharing a single home. Read on as the characters pass each other unknowingly, lost in their private melancholia, shattered dreams, and wrinkling bathtub toes.
CD in numbered, handmade packaging with mini-book • 2012
A Light Sleeper initially emerged in the summer of 2005 as a duo of guitarist D. Pennepalli and drummer Matthew Jung, exploring minimalism while also experimenting heavily with live-looping and improvisation. In 2007, alto saxophonist Maria Elena Hernandez joined, providing a new focus to the compositions still taking shape as well as bringing a distinctly more classical tone to the proceedings—a tone further bolstered by the addition of cellist David Keller and violist Traci Newhouse in 2011. Today, the quintet continues to explore different concepts and approaches, combining myriad elements and styles to not so much defy genre as politely brush it aside. Recommended if you like: symmetry, mass, specters, or any combination thereof