Name: A Separation of Being
Brand: Joyfultalk

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CST150cd

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Format detail

Housed in mini-gatefold jacket

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-03-13

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Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

666516015022

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Artist

Joyfultalk

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Constellation

Free-thinking Nova Scotia composer, musician and visual artist Jay Crocker (aka Joyfultalk) channels Minimalism, Japanese environmental music, Maghrebian rhythmic modes and other numinous folkways to create his most focused, vibrant work to date. Based on a monumental, kaleidoscopic graphic score, A Separation Of Being is translated from two-dimensional page to trans-dimensional aural life using an array of homemade instruments, crowned with a majestic string arrangement written by Crocker and performed by Polaris and Juno winner Jesse Zubot (Tanya Tagaq, Destroyer).

Visual scores often provoke ideas of openness, interpretation, improv and fluidity. Joyfultalk's third album, and second for Constellation, is an altogether different beast. This three-part suite is airtight; interlocking arcs of polyrhythmic deep groove and new minimalism roll out in spellbinding propulsion, the music gathering its warmth from the strings and its peculiarities from Crocker's bespoke instrumentation and analog clockworks. The separation of being here is not division or rupture, but buoyant freedom through conduction of circulatory energies, marked by flowing melodic rondos of gyrating strings and sonic pointillism.

A Separation Of Being is a systems music feast for the heart and mind. And lest we forget the eyes: Crocker began developing 'The Planetary Music System', his particular methodology for visualized composition, in 2012. A Separation Of Being is the sound of one of Canada's most compelling and iconoclastic contemporary musical minds sublimated into a career-defining record of mesmeric coherence and clarity. For fans of Steve Reich, Laurel Halo, Actress, Mikael Seifu, Laurie Spiegel and Penguin Café Orchestra. P is 180gram on midnight ultrablack vinyl with 12” x 24” art print poster + DL. CD gatefold jacket.

A Separation of Being

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