Benjamin Fulwood - The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Benjamin Fulwood
- Title: The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: A Guide To Saints
- Genre: ambient, jazz
- Quality: FLAC 24/48000; 16/44100
- Total Time: 00:36:17
- Total Size: 153; 365 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Benjamin Fulwood's debut, The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This, explores and stretches ambient music from a variety of perspectives. While most tracks use sounds and approaches from recognizable chapters of the genre's lineage, the album begins in a less-recognizable place. After the opening track "Speedboat" establishes its drones, reverberation, and wavering electronics for about ninety seconds, it adds anarchic drumming from Serbian percussionist Lav Kovač prominently to its foreground. This propulsive playing continues, and gradually blends with processing that smears the drums' sound without masking the performance's energy or freedom.
Kovacs's drumming does not return after "Speedboat," and the drones from electronics and Fulwood's saxophone and clarinet playing move fully to Stars' focus. Liner notes explain that Fulwood began creating these pieces with the reed instruments, and added the electronics after a bicycle accident. The acoustic and electronic sounds integrate tightly, so it's often difficult to differentiate them.
The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This holds the listener's attention by placing these tones and drones in different contexts. "Black Willow" uses repetitive glitches that recall early-'00s Fennesz and Tim Hecker, but with only hints of the former's recognizable bit-crushed palette. The album's longest track at eleven minutes, it contrasts consistent textural elements with a sectioned compositional approach. Harmonic changes and short-lived timbres identify the distinct sections.
The most conventional ambient track, "Amidst Tall Grasses," immediately follows "Speedboat" with a sharp contrast. Slowly-evolving foreground drones define the track, which drifts through a series of single pitches over its seven-minute duration, before returning to its opening pitch and timbre. Glitchy sounds like those used more overtly in "Black Willow" sometimes pass underneath.
The album ends with the overtly-melodic "Seven Star Lake," where the saxophone plays a series of purposeful lines reminiscent of Lol Coxhill. Extreme use of reverberation pulls this track toward Stars' defining electronic style and away from its hints of jazz.
While Fulwood references an idiom that has historically relied on static elements, his combination of these traditions with a more vibrant and varied approach keeps this album interesting, engaging, and original. © Steve Silverstein
Tracklist:
1-1 Benjamin Fulwood - Speedboat [7:13]
1-2 Benjamin Fulwood - Amidst Tall Grasses [7:06]
1-3 Benjamin Fulwood - Willows & Rushes [4:24]
1-4 Benjamin Fulwood - Black Willow [11:22]
1-5 Benjamin Fulwood - Seven Star Lake [6:12]
Kovacs's drumming does not return after "Speedboat," and the drones from electronics and Fulwood's saxophone and clarinet playing move fully to Stars' focus. Liner notes explain that Fulwood began creating these pieces with the reed instruments, and added the electronics after a bicycle accident. The acoustic and electronic sounds integrate tightly, so it's often difficult to differentiate them.
The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This holds the listener's attention by placing these tones and drones in different contexts. "Black Willow" uses repetitive glitches that recall early-'00s Fennesz and Tim Hecker, but with only hints of the former's recognizable bit-crushed palette. The album's longest track at eleven minutes, it contrasts consistent textural elements with a sectioned compositional approach. Harmonic changes and short-lived timbres identify the distinct sections.
The most conventional ambient track, "Amidst Tall Grasses," immediately follows "Speedboat" with a sharp contrast. Slowly-evolving foreground drones define the track, which drifts through a series of single pitches over its seven-minute duration, before returning to its opening pitch and timbre. Glitchy sounds like those used more overtly in "Black Willow" sometimes pass underneath.
The album ends with the overtly-melodic "Seven Star Lake," where the saxophone plays a series of purposeful lines reminiscent of Lol Coxhill. Extreme use of reverberation pulls this track toward Stars' defining electronic style and away from its hints of jazz.
While Fulwood references an idiom that has historically relied on static elements, his combination of these traditions with a more vibrant and varied approach keeps this album interesting, engaging, and original. © Steve Silverstein
Tracklist:
1-1 Benjamin Fulwood - Speedboat [7:13]
1-2 Benjamin Fulwood - Amidst Tall Grasses [7:06]
1-3 Benjamin Fulwood - Willows & Rushes [4:24]
1-4 Benjamin Fulwood - Black Willow [11:22]
1-5 Benjamin Fulwood - Seven Star Lake [6:12]
| Jazz | Ambient | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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