a low lament for love and loss/The Feeling Of Walking: Songs for 2020

by Lisa Butel & Brent Cross

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This double album from newly signed Lisa Butel and Brent Cross comes in a two CD set in cardboard love kraft CD sleeves complete with insert.

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1.	Sweet Vox 05:31	buy track
2.	Intro to Lament 05:37	buy track
3.	My Love 04:02	buy track
4.	a fake beat 03:41	buy track
5.	Piano Exp#6-Under the Cover of Snow 08:46	buy track
6.	a heavy weight but still thanksgiving 05:01	buy track
7.	now you're home 02:24	buy track
8.	I'm Giving Out the Love 04:24	buy track
9.	Super Skies 03:01	buy track
10.	The Beautiful Women 05:13	buy track
11.	Smoke from the Fires 04:02	buy track
12.	From and for Him 06:32	buy track
13.	My Inside Voice 04:57	buy track
14.	I Step Lightly 03:40	buy track
15.	Send Bit 03:33	buy track

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"The Feeling of Walking" album is the sound and the feeling of our personal experiences as the pandemic developed. Composed of disparate parts of ambient sounds from inside our family piano, noise from an analog oscillator and sampled/prepared piano and the comforting sounds of voice. This music making was a meditational process that helped us deal with the isolation and anxiety that we all felt and continue to feel.

"Content for a low lament for love and loss" is taken from a one hour live improvised session that Brent and Lisa recorded and then edited the recording down to 7 pieces with very few overdubs. The album is fondly dedicated in memory and emotion to Marge Cross whose Heintzman piano and all of its’ glorious imperfections is sampled and featured along with samples of clarinet played by Johanna Hauser.

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"This month selection of choice music (as you may have noticed) is particularly heavy on voice/vocal experimentation; none so more then the double offerings from the Vancouver-based collaboration of sound artists, Lisa Butel and Brent Cross.

Another product of stress-relief and vehicle for abstract anxieties, feelings and terms of bereavement felt through the creation of music, during the harrowing and restrictive pandemic this sonic and empirical voiced partnership created a moiety of albums. As release valves for pent-up feelings of loss and isolation, these two album suites are full of blended and manipulated minimal synthesised sounds, piano accompaniments from a family heirloom, and a gauzy flow of uttered, elegiac, aria and tonal vocals.

A Low Lament For Love And Loss takes a one-hour improvised session and breaks it down into seven parts of varied elegy and ethereal sung mystique and diaphanous outpours. To a flutter, ripples and fuzzy synth undulations and drones, Butel’s voice yearns syllables and sounds. Often they sound otherworldly, or as in the case of the slowed, stripped Red Mecca era Cabaret Voltaire, buzzing and crisp Middle Eastern tinged ‘Intro To Lament’, like a mysterious call to prayer from atop of a minaret.

Wafted, drifted, translucent yet deeply felt that voice and accompaniment is entrancing but often tragic; dealing as it does from the loss of Cross’s mother, whose Heintzman piano can be heard throughout, fluctuating between sentimental tinkles, singular patted notes and melodious dreamy passages.

The Feeling Of Walking is in a very similar vein, though the process is a little different, using the voices as a sort of comfort and meditation. Opening beautiful gesture ‘I’m Giving Out The Love’ is like a mix of ambient generated dreaminess and slowcore; ‘Super Skies’ an almost monastic kind of poetry. There’s even a kind of Japanese dulcimer-like feel to the ghostly, delicate ‘The Beautiful Women’.

Two congruous releases of pent-up emotions delivered in the form of an experiment between voice, piano and a palette of purposeful oscillations and manipulations, Cross and Butel’s lockdown albums act as a personal process but above all sound fully immersive and cathartic: A communal, connective experience."

~Dominic Valvona
monolithcocktail.com/2021/11/04/the-perusal-22-dear-laika-stereo-total-boom-diwan-ft-nduduzo-makhathini-spacelab/

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