Rafael Anton Irisarri - The North Bend

Rafael Anton Irisarri - The North Bend

1 Passage

2 Blue Tomorrows

3 A Great Northern Sigh

4 Traces

5 Deception Falls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yscItWcwthc

  Quote

"Shingo Ogata, the aged protagonist of Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound Of The Mountain awakens from sleep in his family home one late-winter night,

to a sound of uncertain source and unknown origin; "...like wind, far away, but with a depth like a rumbling of the earth."

 

The sound queuing a vast, abstract and unconscious awareness, as though a tone had been struck deep within the self, harmonized, resonating in key, with

one's sense of mortality. Ogata's epiphany, rather than a looking inward, as morbid obsession on the self as finite, was to instead to see out; to 'hear' the

massive near-silent symphony who's volume dwarfs all things, on a scale that is the vocalization of all things in their totality, with the self recognized

as an aspect of one's place within it, yet expressed unto oneself as their own.

 

It's the rare work that adeptly chronicles the inward tunings of that awareness. The reciprocation of the 'tone' struck within the self and the expression

outward to the natural living world; not a simple matter to dedicate to canvas, celluloid, printed page, magnetic tape or the plethora of digital recording

formats. The North Bend depicts a deeply personal, and at once universal resonating of/with that world, impressing sound upon it and charting what

comes back; valleys, mountains, the nearly endless sea of trees - like furrows, peaks, dynamic points on the soundwaves. The vast natural splendour

of the pacific northwest of the United States may just be the most sublime sounding board for such a dialog. Deeply rich in lore both ancient and

current, that of the native Snoqualmie and Wenatchee people, David Lynch's television narrative redefining Twin Peaks, this is a region that has

long-inspired these very same 'resoundings'. The North Bend being a continuance of, and contributing a new form to those traditions, that of

neoclassical, spectral and ambient sublimity. Irisarri's depiction of that process, in the form of this recording, is a chronicle of just such a

dialog between the self impressing sound on the natural world and it's resounding

response expressed through the work in turn." - Jefferson Petrey

 

PRESS (Various)

 

“Irisarri stretches the boundaries of pop music to flirt with much more openly experimental angles; investigating desolate territories

and bringing them to life by subtle melodic touches…a complete master at his art” - THE MILK FACTORY

 

“These expansive instrumental epics start out icy, but melt easily enough with proper

application of the human ear.” - WIRED

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boomkat

I love just about everything RAI touches, both under his own name and The Sight Below, so I'll be picking this one up for sure. Sounds a little like a mix of Daydreaming with a bit of Fennesz's Venice thrown in for good measure, nice!

Sorry for the double post, but you can order the limited edition cd with 6 panel artwork directly from his site with free download.

8 left after my order

just bout to get this for me and me mum - she's about as enthusiastic bout these types of music's as i am - she also loves the new goldmund ..as do i.