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GitM on The Seance and Recent Music Heroes

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“Grass in the Moonlight” was in excellent company on the August 26 episode of The Seance with the likes of Dania, Phirnis, and King Crimson.

Recent Music Heroes also posted a lovely review which, translated from Estonian, compliments the track’s “tactile sensuality” and acknowledges that Orca, Attack’s! “goal – to create dynamic music using the unpredictable structure of the instruments to reflect the impermanence of the microcosm – has been fully realized.”

A big thank you to both The Seance and Recent Music Heroes!

GitM on The Moderns, Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Parenthetical Recluse, The Periphery, and Urban Mutant

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Many more thanks to the kind folks who have shared, played, or commented on Orca, Attack!’s “Grass In The Moonlight.”

Parenthetical Recluse Earbliss

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, where Trev had this to say: Next, another team up with Elizabeth Joan Kelly aka Orca and David Rodriguez aka Attack! with a highly original piece titled “Grass In The Moonlight” which is a great name so I think I’ll title this episode after it. It’s from a release out on the Mortality Tables label called, yes “Grass In The Moonlight”.

The Moderns

The Periphery on NoiseBox Radio

Urban Mutant on KHUH-LP Hollow Earth Radio

New music!

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Announcing the release of “Grass in the Moonlight,” the newest from Orca, Attack! “Grass in the Moonlight” is part of the Mortality Tables Impermanence Project, a large-scale collaborative project across different disciplines, where designers, artists, musicians, sound artists, writers, poets and photographers were invited to respond to the word ‘impermanence’.

listencorp track-by-track review

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listencorp has a really incisive track-by-track review of LF17 / Edinburgh up. Here’s what they had to say about “Calton Road Cobblestones:”

‍Calton Road Cobblestones ends Elizabeth Joan Kelly’s sonic exploration of a small patch of Edinburgh’s ground, taking the listener to a spare and empty space that opens up slightly through the wandering keys, frigid noise, mulling synth pads and emotive strings that close off the song. It’s an ending that lets free-wheeling melodies speak to the aura of Edinburgh, encapsulating the ominous yet rich spirit of the city.

Read the full review at listencorp.co.uk, and many thanks to Louis Pelingen for such an inspired piece.

ANTIGRAVITY Review

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An absolutely lovely review of LF17 / Edinburgh in one of my personal favorite New Orleans publications, ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. An excerpt:

The three electro ambient tracks, each named after a location in Edinburgh where the original field recordings were made (“Calton Hill,” “Princes Street Gardens,” “Calton Road Cobblestones”), are soothing and otherworldly, occasionally employing synthesizers to flirt with more unsettling undertones. The end result only hints at the original recordings, Kelly’s production leaving the faintest memory of the actual time and place, like stepping into a dream reality.

Many thanks to ANTIGRAVITY and Mary Beth Campbell for this. Catch the whole thing, plus reviews of Kim Gordon, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Hurray For The Riff Raff, and more on the ANTIGRAVITY website.

Avant Music News Review

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Avant Music News has graciously reviewed LF17 / Edinburgh, and per usual it’s an insightful analysis of the release:

“Calton Hill is five minutes of ethereal chording with a slow voice-like melody. The tones are light but with a hint of anxiety. Princes Street Gardens is based on looped rhythmic structures reminiscent of old-school works from Dockstader and others. Over these, Kelly places a dialog between echoing effects and horn-like themes. Calton Road Cobblestones finishes things up with sparse string-plucking and drones. The latter grow ominous as the piece ends.”

Catch it, and more of the most knowledgeable analysis in experimental music, on the Avant Music News website.

Edinburgh In the Letter

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Much gratitude to Blair for highlighting LF17 / Edinburgh in The Letter this week:

“LF17 / Edinburgh is the latest in the LIFEFILES series and features Louisiana artist Elizabeth Joan Kelly. Previous contributors include Simon Fisher Turner, Xqui, Audio Obscura, Maps and more. The idea behind the series is simple, an artist receives some recordings (I assume from the label Mortality Tables) and they respond in a fitting manner. The recordings could be “from places, people, objects, moments in time, environments and quotidian events”. This time round, the sounds come from the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh!”