Description
//Western Vinyl//
£23.99 – 1xLP
A suite of searching accordion and pipe organ-led pieces that travel a steady course, swelling and expanding with a tide of tender emotion.
The composer and multi-instrumentalist takes the title of his second album from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous epic, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, and its depiction of a boat that’s stalled at sea—As idle as a painted ship/ Upon a painted ocean. It’s an impression that mirrors both the process and the product of Mc Clements’s Western Vinyl release, from the gentle unfurling of a raw reed tone on opener “A Painted Ship” to the gritty ebb and flow of effects-laden drone on “Washed Up,” and the closing flutter and signal interference that noisily builds toward triumphant euphoria on“Clattering.” A credit to strong relationships and mutual support, the album charts a personal pilgrimage – adapting to the tides and remembering your community can help when you feel stuck at sea.
Tracklisting:
- July Blue Skies
- Sky Train Baby
- Venus Of Barsoon
- Ikuchi
- Summer Of Synesthesia
- Tsicroxe
