Elori Saxl – The Blue of Distance (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:03 minutes | 379 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Western Vinyl
Classy debut album of horizon-scanning but intimate chamber compositions by Elori Saxl, seamlessly weaving a range of classical orchestration with field recordings and electronics.
‘The Blue of Distance’ sees Elori draw listeners between the Adirondack Mountains in summer, and the middle of Lake Superior at the depths of winter, for a cinematic album that expresses a palpable sense of nostalgia and hope. Its title is inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s observation that faraway mountains appear blue due to light particles getting lost over distance, as outlined in ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’, and Elori uses that phenomena as metaphor for the music’s curious sense of physical detachment/immersion and elusive familiarity, meshing recordings of a 6 piece ensemble (Violin, Viola, Cello, Clarinet, Flue, Oboe, Bassoon) made in summer, with their re-sampled images, re-recorded thru the foot of ice beneath her on Lake Superior, to create an absorbing blur between place and space, and between physical gesture and artificial resonance. A quiet-minded one for fans of Ian William Craig, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, or the evocative, descriptive powers of Goldmund.
Tracklist:
1. Before Blue (01:32)
2. Blue (09:56)
3. Wave I (02:32)
4. Wave II (02:40)
5. Memory of Blue (11:39)
6. Wave III (03:42)
7. The Blue of Distance (07:05)
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