Name: Violinvocations
Brand: Hugh Marsh

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WV178CD

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-02-15

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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0843563103586

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Artist

Hugh Marsh

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Western Vinyl

Even if you've never heard of Hugh Marsh you've almost certainly heard the sound of his violin. He's a featured player on soundtracks by Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams, was nominated for a Juno award, recorded with Iggy Pop and The Stooges, and was in the backing band for Bauhaus' Peter Murphy, all a tiny fraction of his decades-long list of credits. The latest addition to that list is Marsh's own <i>Violinvocations</i>, an LP recorded while Marsh lived in L.A. with friend, mentor, and fellow sound bender Jon Hassell.<br><br>Despite the album's title, one would be hard-pressed to say with certainty whether violin was even involved in this album without being told so ahead of time. In one moment a ghost is heard weeping into a dictaphone; a digitized anime character is nervously chattering in the next; and in still another, jagged sheets of distortion avalanche toward the listener beneath auroric swells of harmony. It's the kind of sound design that requires a dedicated a ttempt by any Oneohtrixian laptop composer, only it's all being generated by Marsh's violin and his curious cabinet of effects pedals often in just one take.

Violinvocations

Music GB