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In The Lives That Surround You by Ralph Kinsella

Take some time out for gorgeous, shimmering guitar textures + intricately crafted compositions from Scottish sound sculptor Ralph Kinsella … you should really give a listen to In the Lives That Surround You, released today to all the streaming places …

❝ The clash of meaning permeating this album is thrilling and compelling in equal measure … beautifully coloured by a diverse range of emotions and pictures telling stories hidden from view, buried in stereo. ❞ — Greg Fenton, MagazineSixty

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/10/28/in-the-lives-that-surround-you-by-ralph-kinsella/

Shebang by Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi Shebang (Drag City Records)

❝ Picking up from the staccato guitar patterns that ran through Hubris, Shebang’s single 35-minute track begins with a precisely interwoven lattice of chiming guitar figures, expanding Hubris’ monolithic pulse into a joyous, hyper-rhythmic melodicism that calls up points of reference as disparate as Albert Marcoeur, early Pat Metheny Group, and Henry Kaiser’s It’s A Wonderful Life. Building from isolated single notes into densely layered polyrhythms, the muted guitar tones are joined by subtle touches of shimmering Leslie cabinet tones and guitar synth. ❞ *

Only eight minutes of the full album are available until the release date (September 30) but no doubt the complete recording will prove to be a deeply meditative stream of sounds ideal for brain focus.

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/12/oren-ambarchi-i-oren-ambarchi-shebang-drag/

Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance by Rafael Toral

❝ Toral has released several sparse epics, but Violence… is his finest, in part because he focuses his efforts on a more intimate scale. A track such as the opening “Desirée” might overwhelm and cause mental drift at album-side length; at three and a half minutes, its lush northern-lights shimmer envelopes you, ravishes you and moves on. Still, this is, more than Toral’s previous efforts, a guitar record. You can hear the contour and grain of actual straight-outta-the-amp feedback amid the shifting timbres on “Maersk Line” and “Liberté.” ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/08/rafael-toral-desiree-toral-has-released/