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Release date: June 25, 2021

It might be easy to assume that the distinctly focused compositional voice unveiled on Rose Bolton's The Lost Clock is the product of its creator's rigorous, almost hermetic dedication to her own particular aesthetic universe. A quick survey of Bolton's artistic career, however, reveals that her carefully sculpted approach to abstract electronica has been forged through a longstanding engagement with a wide range of intertwining creative activities.

This album—coming out on Important Records' cassette imprint, Cassauna demonstrates both the Toronto-based composer's unique mastery of colour and her gift for breathing a tactile, organic quality into synthetic landscapes. Bolton's distinctive sensibility is akin to that of a painter—every hue has been carefully mixed so as to imbue its accompanying gesture with its own life and personality. This tangible dimensionality her electronic work assumes, however, can be traced back to the work Bolton has been doing since the 1990's. She has produced a large and varied catalogue of work that includes pieces for solo performers, chamber ensembles, orchestra, electronics, voice, and to accompany installations and films. A number of her works reside in several of these zones simultaneously, such as Song of Extinction, an ambitious collaboration between herself, filmmaker Marc de Guerre, poet Don McKay, and multiple live ensembles, that was mounted in an abandoned power station for Toronto's Luminato Festival.

This quasi-instrumental vitality isn't the only feature of The Lost Clock that reflects Bolton's diverse artistic practice. It can also be heard within the structural realm. Each of the collection's four tracks trace a patient unfolding and favour a certain roundness of timbre, even as finer details begin to fidget along the perimeter of the music. As with her writing for the concert hall, Bolton doesn't shy away from the evocative here, yet she doesn't pursue this poignancy through conventional, direct or quasi-narrative means. Her compositions lead the listener gradually through their impressionistic sonic scenery, but neither the path they take nor their ultimate destination are at all predictable. The ostensible gentleness each piece exudes dissolves as dissonances slowly insinuate themselves, obscure textures writhe just out of earshot, percussive lattice work materializes, or as the overall blend begins to exert a heavier weight. Her lucid-dream vision of form functions in tandem with her acute micro-level attentiveness to engender a vivid and elusive soundworld that resists classification.

Over more than two decades Rose Bolton has been garnering acclaim and enthusiasm from audiences and major collaborators alike. Last year, her brooding string quartet The Coming Of Sobs was nominated for Classical Composition of the Year at the JUNO Awards, following earlier accolades such as SOCAN Awards for Young Composers, and the Canadian Music Centre's Norman Burgess Fund. Her music has been commissioned by the likes of the CBC, stalwart experimental music festival the Sound Symposium, as well as key interpreters and ensembles such as percussionist David Schotzko, accordionist Joseph Petric the Esprit Orchestra, Continuum, Arraymusic, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and guitar quartet Instruments of Happiness (led by Tim Brady).

The Lost Clock

Rose Bolton - Unsettled Souls - from The Lost Clock - Pre-Order Now

Caring about the unexpected, focusing on details, Neve music is built around drifting layers, analog synths, elliptical tape processing, loopers and effects pedals.

Isadora is a 9 tracks full-length album about looping, drifting, shifting, unexpecting, life, moods, memory.

It is out on Rusted Tone Recordings, available as  limited-edition cassette and digital formats : https://rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/isadora

04 - Vallées

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https://innerspaceprod.bandcamp.com/
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Another Side

This track is quoted from the album 'youth'.
Listening to all tracks of the album and purchasing are available on the link below.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/youth

written, mixed, mastered by Hidekazu Imashige 
cover photo, design by Hidekazu Imashige

Gunjyo

Alaban

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Chelidon Frame - Transience
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/transience

Transience

B3. Chelidon Frame - Transience [GRFTPS018]

Not to Speak II

GRFTPS019
City of Dawn - Anemoia
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamphttps://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/anemoia

Anemoia

B4. City of Dawn - Anemoia [GRFTPS019]

Sounds Between Day And Night

Sinking into the Dark -  it is a new long-time term project started from 2019 focus on psychoacoustics, deep thinking, involving time mutations, body motion, light, the use of self-made recordings of electromagnetic waves from the outer space coming from celestial bodies, recorded at the Astronomical Observatory of Luserna (IT), in addiction with real-time reception of high frequencies waves, radio communication, wireless with the use of a variety of antennas, some of them self-made, for a series of compositional ideas for live performance.

Rose Bolton - Unsettled Souls - from The Lost Clock - Pre-Order Now

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