Fires Frame the Silhouette

Red Bathroom Floor

Seven Years Old

Drawings Hung on Police Station Walls

Painted Red Lightswitch

Iron Pier

Five Years Old

Passing Stone

Vast, expansive and introspective works utilising place-specific found sound on this second Cremation Lily LP for Alter. Contemplating mortality, illness and the perennial bleakness of British winter in a seaside town we find Zen Zsigo experimenting with piano, violin, synthesiser and walkman tape players. Layering field recordings of the Hastings shoreline atop druggy, stretched out 303 basslines and snippets of spoken word there seems to be an overarching thematic of memory and reflection at play. From vignettes of crumbling glass and bittersweet drones through to sprawling, semi-rhythmical pieces (‘As a sea creature...’) it seems as if Zsigo is trawling the coast for fragments of its former glory. The end result of his study manages to echo the work of Yoran, Leyland Kirby and even Jacob Kirkegaard yet the rare moments where he lays bare his own vocal narrative seemingly transforms In England Now, Underwater into sonic diary territory. Mixing salt-water soaked cassette loops with haunting, minimalist piano motifs and warped recordings of crashing waves and bird noise an intense atmosphere of Ballard’s drowned world is evoked through sound.

Order: https://cremationlily-alter.bandcamp.com/album/in-england-now-underwater

Cremation Lily - Radiance And Instability (ALT42)

In England Now, Underwater

Radiance And Instability

Washed Through Glass

As A Sea Creature Might Watch From An Aquarium

The Processes And Instruments Of Normal People

The Processes and Instruments of Normal People

Coastal Path, If We Were Alone

Quiet Preperation (Timetable)

Rose Water

The Currents Mislead (Hand in Hand)

October Sails

Lovers Against the Rocks

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