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Colin Stetson // Chimæra I LP [COLOR]

Colin Stetson // Chimæra I LP [COLOR]

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Colin Stetson, an American-born Canadian saxophonist known for his performances with Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, and Bell Orchestra, released a record in November 2022 from the Australian experimental label Room11.

Includes 4 abyssal minimal drone songs by saxophone. Comes with DL code.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Room40 releases available at Tobira.

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Includes DL code. Available on 12" black vinyl or 12" clear vinyl. 

Room40:

"A body is bounded. It operates within physical limitations and biological constraints. Whilst some see these physiological boundaries as a terminus, others such as Colin Stetson perceive them as a nexus of possibility, and perhaps even of expansion. tension and promise that his new album Chimæra dwells.

Collecting a series of extended drone works for saxophone, Chimæra charts an entirely new thread of work for Stetson. This thread simultaneously maintains states of reductive minimalism and reactive maximalism. The pieces reveal his increasingly refined capacity to compose works that push outward testing for the boundaries of timbre, harmony and also density.

Each of Chimæra's two pieces forge an almost geological sensibility, tracing out the imagined caverns, hidden hollows and surging magma flows of an underworld that exists beyond the everyday we know. His instrument breathes like wind expelled from lava pipes. The pieces are tactile, engulfing the entire body and the ears with equal ferocity. It is a record that melds together a deeply layered sense of sonic strata with an unwavering harmonic delicacy.

For more than a decade now, Stetson has been involved an impressively divergent array of works that are concerned with the very physiology of sound. His lungs shaping sound through the coiling metallic pathways of his saxophones. of his playing and resoundingly places him at the very center of an ever expanding body of work that has come to define the potentials of his instrument of choice.
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Artist: Colin Stetson

Label: Room40

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Colin Stetson, an American-born Canadian saxophonist known for his performances with Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, and Bell Orchestra, released a record in November 2022 from the Australian experimental label Room11.

Includes 4 abyssal minimal drone songs by saxophone. Comes with DL code.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Room40 releases available at Tobira.

----------------------------

Includes DL code. Available on 12" black vinyl or 12" clear vinyl. 

Room40:

"A body is bounded. It operates within physical limitations and biological constraints. Whilst some see these physiological boundaries as a terminus, others such as Colin Stetson perceive them as a nexus of possibility, and perhaps even of expansion. tension and promise that his new album Chimæra dwells.

Collecting a series of extended drone works for saxophone, Chimæra charts an entirely new thread of work for Stetson. This thread simultaneously maintains states of reductive minimalism and reactive maximalism. The pieces reveal his increasingly refined capacity to compose works that push outward testing for the boundaries of timbre, harmony and also density.

Each of Chimæra's two pieces forge an almost geological sensibility, tracing out the imagined caverns, hidden hollows and surging magma flows of an underworld that exists beyond the everyday we know. His instrument breathes like wind expelled from lava pipes. The pieces are tactile, engulfing the entire body and the ears with equal ferocity. It is a record that melds together a deeply layered sense of sonic strata with an unwavering harmonic delicacy.

For more than a decade now, Stetson has been involved an impressively divergent array of works that are concerned with the very physiology of sound. His lungs shaping sound through the coiling metallic pathways of his saxophones. of his playing and resoundingly places him at the very center of an ever expanding body of work that has come to define the potentials of his instrument of choice.
 "

Artist: Colin Stetson

Label: Room40