Name: Ghost Poems
Brand: Earthen Sea

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

KRANK234

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

796441823420

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Artist

Earthen Sea

Genre GB

Techno / Electro

Label GB

Kranky

Jacob Long’s third Earthen Sea outing for Kranky, <i>Ghost Poems</i>, further refines his fragile, fractured palette into fluttering arrhythmias of dust, percussion, and yearning.

Composed during the first wave of lockdowns in New York, the pieces took shape patiently from samples of piano, texture, and domestic sounds (sink splashing, room tone, clinking objects), filtered through live FX to imbue them with an intuitive, immaterial feel. Wisps of melody splinter, shimmer, and refract, like light on water; pulses accrue and dissipate, as if mapping shifting sands. Throughout, there’s a sense of matter made animate, of absences felt.

Long cites notions of “the studio as a dub instrument” and the melancholy of “7th chords on a fake Rhodes patch” as central elements in his process, transforming raw materials into rare thresholds of symbiosis and hypnosis. This is music for night skies in hollowed out cities, for views across rivers towards unknown shores: restless, placeless, and profound.

Ghost Poems

Music GB