in foundry creek

The last track of an album recorded in June of 2015. Post Rock, Shoegaze, Contemporary Classical influences. Recorded at MSU. To be listened to at high volume, in the dark, alone, nude, whilst drinking coffee.

more of a dream than a nightmare

Water Flowing Through The Earth

Allie Holden, violin; Bronwen McVeigh, piano

Hollow Boxes For Helmholtz

Pando (Trembling Giant) is a clonal colony of a single male quaking aspen determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers and assumed to have one massive underground root system. The tree is estimated to weigh 6,000,000 kilograms collectively making it the heaviest known organism. Pando is also one of the world's oldest organisms with the root system estimated at 80,000 years old.

Pando (Trembling Giant)

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Our Lady of Infinite Sorrows lies at the bottom of the world, it’s icy landscape encapsulated in this album through processed strings, digital synthesis, and field recordings. Atmospheric and earthy timbres and textures evoke the polar desert’s immense scale, remoteness, and detachment.

Polar regions are particularly sensitive to the effects of climate change and in turn magnify existing threats. Current warming trends, international disputes over resources, and proposed polar oil and gas exploration suggest increasingly imminent destruction of the regions.

The central track, Blue in White, features harmonic content and a melody borrowed from Bill Evans’ tune Blue in Green (recorded by and often credited to Miles Davis), featured on the monumental album Kind of Blue. Although Davis saw the album as a “return to melody,” the material used in this context is a rocky, distorted landscape of "doom"ed ice… until a lone violin tries to sing the fragmented melody.

The tracks also feature field recordings from Martini's pocket TASCAM taken on various travels to cities and wilderness.

Notable influences on the album's sound include: Stephen O’ Malley, Randall Dunn, Oren Ambarchi, Tim Hecker, John Luther Adams, The Body, and William Basinski.
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released January 16, 2021

The album was recorded and edited by R. A. Martini in Washington, DC. Percussion on track 2 by Nick Kivi, recorded in Cincinnati, OH.

R. A. Martini

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