David John Sheppard - Vertical Land (2015)
BAND/ARTIST: David John Sheppard
- Title: Vertical Land
- Year Of Release: 2015
- Label: Village Green Recordings; Village Green
- Genre: Soundtrack, Ambient, Leftfield, House, Tribal, African, Modern Classical
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 43:38 min
- Total Size: 43:38 min
- WebSite: Album Preview
Known for fusing avant-experiment and filmic atmospheres with a rich melodic and rhythmic sensibility, Sheppard was inspired to write ‘Vertical Land’ by his travels in summer/autumn 2013. Finding himself (not in the hippie sense, more serendipitously) in a series of mountainous landscapes (South Africa, northern Norway, the volcanic Cyclades islands of Greece and the Welsh Black Mountains), Sheppard was moved by the feeling of awe that arises when flying over or walking across huge land masses.
Tracks were begun percussively by inserting pencils into guitars to make false bridges, then hammering the strings with vibraphone mallets, or by applying layers of masking tape to the strings of an upright piano in order to create a raw percussive instrument. Marimbas, glockenspiels and mountain dulcimers were all attacked with a similar sense of primal reflex until the compositions were gradually built up, only to be stripped back down again in a very painterly process, to reveal new forms, combinations and colours.
Tracklist:
01. David John Sheppard - A Thumbnail Sketch of Infinity (6:48)
02. David John Sheppard - Horizon Climbs (5:02)
03. David John Sheppard - Vortex on a String (5:00)
04. David John Sheppard - Seconds, Minutes, Hours (5:34)
05. David John Sheppard - Vertical Land 1 (6:56)
06. David John Sheppard - Spring Forward, Fall Back (3:19)
07. David John Sheppard - Mountain Time (4:23)
08. David John Sheppard - Vertical Land 2 (6:35)
Tracks were begun percussively by inserting pencils into guitars to make false bridges, then hammering the strings with vibraphone mallets, or by applying layers of masking tape to the strings of an upright piano in order to create a raw percussive instrument. Marimbas, glockenspiels and mountain dulcimers were all attacked with a similar sense of primal reflex until the compositions were gradually built up, only to be stripped back down again in a very painterly process, to reveal new forms, combinations and colours.
Tracklist:
01. David John Sheppard - A Thumbnail Sketch of Infinity (6:48)
02. David John Sheppard - Horizon Climbs (5:02)
03. David John Sheppard - Vortex on a String (5:00)
04. David John Sheppard - Seconds, Minutes, Hours (5:34)
05. David John Sheppard - Vertical Land 1 (6:56)
06. David John Sheppard - Spring Forward, Fall Back (3:19)
07. David John Sheppard - Mountain Time (4:23)
08. David John Sheppard - Vertical Land 2 (6:35)
Classical | Alternative | Electronic | FLAC / APE
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