Remember when I wrote about Annea Lockwood’s Ground of Being LP on Recital, and I closed the post with a quick joke about eyeballs wrapped around a shout out to Ian William Craig and his upcoming release on the same label? Good, I’m glad you remember, it lets me know that you really care. Well you can stop futzing with your eyeballs now if you want, because we got us some additional details on Craig’s upcoming Recital debut A Turn of Breath and I’m about to tell you about them like it’s my actual job, when in reality my actual actual job is the thing I’m supposed to be doing right now instead of writing about this awesome sounding Ian William Craig album. Life is funny that way.
A Turn of Breath is out on August 5 both as one of those vinyl things you’ve heard so much about and as a digital download like the kind your big brother used to download for you from Napster. The album finds Craig continuing to explore the approaches demonstrated on the TMT Second Quarter Favorites shortlist album Theia and the Archive as well as last year’s A Forgetting Place. Namely, he manipulates tape recordings of his classically trained voice into a lush, ringing ambience. Reportedly, A Turn of Breath will find him using more explicitly, if “impressionistic,” choral and traditional acoustic-guitar-and-voice song structures. There will be both a standard edition of 375 and a deluxe edition of 125 that will be pressed on “infused purple and tan wax.” The deluxe edition will also arrive with the CD-R EP Short of Breath. For more info and to pre-order, do as you do in pretty much every other news post around this point in the second or third paragraph and click the link I’ve embedded here. You can also check out “Either Or” off the album below.
A Turn of Breath tracklisting:
01. Before Meaning Comes
02. On the Reach of Explanations
03. Red Gate with Starling
04. Rooms
05. A Slight Grip, a Gentle Hold (Part 1)
06. Second Lens
07. The Edges
08. New Brighton Park, July 2013
09. TEAC Poem
10. Either Or
11. A Slight Grip, a Gentle Hold (Part 2)
12. A Forgetting Place
• Ian William Craig: http://www.ianwilliamcraig.com
• Recital: http://www.recitalprogram.com
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