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what am I doing here?

from 'Radiate Through You' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den295
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique

The latest long-player of devotional noir by Humboldt County romantic Brian Pyle aka Ensemble Economique was originally titled Music Saves Lives, in response to the misguided backlash directed at underground artists in the wake of the tragic Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. Since Pyle’s career threads through a decade and a half of Northern California’s independent experimental music community, the blow struck a uniquely deep and personal chord. As a way to process, he began recording at his coastal home studio in Manila, California, channeling inner states of mind, seeking something “more personal and intimate, the idea of love, and shining through.”

Radiate Through You delivers on its title, exuding a nuanced catharsis, alternately tempestuous and transcendent, forlorn but undefeated. Vaulted heavens of interwoven electronics ebb into hushed dirges of skeletal percussion and candlelit guitar. Roiling noise seethes, swells, and subsides as an ashen string arrangement rises in the mix, keening a somber, circular elegy, as if overtaken by memory on a long walk alone.

Two key guest appearances lend the album even more dynamism and drama: the first by Barcelona synthesist Alexander Molero on the questing, celestial opener, “Music Is Life,” the second by New Zealand psychic sisters Purple Pilgrims on the devastating finale, “Blue Hour.” Both showcase impressive shades of Pyle’s finesse as producer and muse, sparking his collaborators to new heights.

Whether taken as expressionist memorial, therapeutic song cycle, or something more ambiguous, Radiate Through You stands as a pensive, passionate statement by an enduring light of the West Coast canon, drawn from “a deep, special place of giant emotions, feelings.”

Radiate Through You

Ensemble Economique - Blue Hour (feat. Purple Pilgrims)

Olga Anna Markowska - zither
Wojciech Wilk - soma lyra8

Mixed and mastered by Wojciech Wilk
Recorded in home studio, 2019.
Photography by Olga Anna Markowska

danny warner

emily rogers

Olga Anna Markowska - cello (with fx) 
Wojciech Wilk -  modular synth (dfam+trogotronic+batumi+dsp) thru soma lab lyra 8 and guitar pedals. 
One take improvisation.

Mixed and mastered by Wojciech Wilk
Recorded in home studio, 2019.
Photography by Olga Anna Markowska

Quake

resistance to death case /demo/

Olga Anna Markowska - cello (with fx) 
Wojciech Wilk -  modular synth (dfam+trogotronic+batumi+dsp) thru soma lab lyra 8 and guitar pedals.

Mixed and mastered by Wojciech Wilk
Recorded in home studio, 2019.
Photography by Olga Anna Markowska

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