Snow Palms - Land Waves on CD

Description

Land Waves, the third album by new minimalists Snow Palms, is the project's first full length since becoming a duo. At times it is like Terry Riley with Lex Baxter in Japan, at others it could be the soundtrack to a meditation centre in neo-Tokyo dreamed up by William Gibson and Brian Eno. Its patterns and textures accelerate and resolve with drama and intent, its abstractions rendered by a distinctive kinetic sound world of mallets and synthesizers conjuring real and imaginary landscapes. In 2017 Snow Palms originator, the musician, critic and tutor David Sheppard, invited fellow, composer, producer and academic Matt Gooderson to formally join the project, after spending time together experimenting in the studio. "We have quite different musical backgrounds but found we were responding to and searching for the same things in music," explains Sheppard, "Over time, we evolved both a methodology and a signature sound."

TRACKS

Atom Dance
Everything Ascending
Evening Rain Gardens
Land Waves
Thought Shadow
Kojo Yakei
White Cranes Return