DEW POINT by SPIRIT RADIO
Editions Vaché is happy to announce the release of a new EP by the enigmatic SPIRIT RADIO. Fresh from the release of their second album "Distract'd by a Kaleidoscope Salesman" the duo of Stephen Spera and Tamalyn Miller offer a major new piece, "Dew Point", plus the eight variations of the lauded "A Sighting"- a piece that has been in the SR repertoire for years, in many varying permutations....The physical CD comes wrapped with a disintegrating page from a twentieth century reprint of the original 1852-57 copies of Scientific American. Also included is a unique found photograph from the archives....and, as is usual with Editions Vaché- a few oddities may wind up in your order......
....A lovely new review of "Dew Point', all the way from Scotland......
"I don’t really feel that this piece of music could be categorised as being of the ambient genre as, despite the loops and synthetic soundscapes, Spirit Radio - Stephen Spera and Tamalyn Miller - are, once again, all circles and no squares in their presentation. Nothing much really happens as was no doubt intended, but, and I may be wrong here, the whole point of this musical enchantment was to leave enough space for thought and inner contemplation with the late appearance of ghostly voices serving to reinforce that all that you hear is not of the earth but of the ether.
In addition to “Dew Point” itself there are also eight short variations on “A Sighting” which spin a similar tale of spiritual sequencing but imagined as if completion could only be regarded as an optional extra to the Spirit Radio story. That, curiously, seems entirely appropriate.
As in all things musical, the meaning is whatever you want it to be. Tune in and ponder that for a minute or ten.
Available from Bandcamp and the usual digital places. ......Bluesbunny,Scotland
"Spirit Radio - Stephen Spera and Tamalyn Miller – are purveyors of the nonstandard and, through sound bites and repetition, from little much is made. It is most definitely a listening with closed eyes kind of album with whispering voices, voices in the distance, voices detached from this reality, sequenced loops and a horsehair fiddle combining into a curiously affecting soundscape that makes your ears believe they are listening to a concerto formed from the echoes in a canyon....." Bluesbunny, Scotland
Tracklist
| 1. | Dew Point | 10:43 |
| 2. | A Sighting 1 | 1:04 |
| 3. | A Sighting 2 | 1:34 |
| 4. | A Sighting 3 | 1:35 |
| 5. | A Sighting 4 | 1:56 |
| 6. | A Sighting 5 | 1:43 |
| 7. | A Sighting 6 | 1:46 |
| 8. | A Sighting 7 | 1:45 |
| 9. | A Sighting 8 | 1:14 |
Credits
Tamalyn Miller- Vox, Hosrehair Fiddle
Stephen Spera - everything else
Produced by Stephen Spera
Art Direction, photography- Spera
License
All rights reserved.
SPIRIT RADIO is Stephen Spera and Tamalyn Miller.
Following on their recent album release, SPIRIT RADIO return with a new EP of Sound Art- including the lauded "A Sighting"...the New York duo continues to enchant, true to the "What would Ghosts listen to?" moniker ascribed to their unique brand of Chamber Ambient....