Label: 901 Editions

Entr'acteに多くのタイトルを残している事で知られ、Joseph Clayton Mills、Steven Hess、Adam Sonderberg、メンバーそれぞれがソロでも素晴らしい仕事ばかりをしているシカゴのエレクトロアコースティック・トリオHaptic。同郷の女性演奏家Olivia Block(オルガン)、Salvatore Dellaria(アナログシンセ)のサポート受け完成させた2022年新作[Ladder Of Shadows]。硬質な音響で組み上げた立体的な動きが美しいエレクトロアコースティックですが、テクスチャー自体は非常に生々しく程良いアンビエンスが漂う印象。相変わらずの徹底した緻密な作り込みが激ヤバです。6パネルデジスリーヴ仕様。





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• Offset Print, glass mastered CD
• 6-panel digisleeve
• Uncoated 350gms cardboard
• Colours: Grayscale + Pantone
• Design by Mote Studio
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Steven Hess
Joseph Clayton Mills
Adam Sonderberg

with
Olivia Block, organ (1)
Salvatore Dellaria, analog synthesizer (1-3)

Recorded by Alex Inglizian on 29 October 2021 @ Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago. Additional recording by Mills / Sonderberg. Mixed by Adam Sonderberg @ Vozdvizhenskoe Manor. Mastered by Tomas Korber @ Messfehler.

This is Haptic recording number fifteen.

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Since 2005, Chicago-based experimentalists Haptic have explored the intersection between composition and improvisation in concerts, site-specific installations, and critically acclaimed recordings. Often engaging in ambitious cross-genre collaborations, Haptic has worked closely with composers such as Michael Pisaro-Liu and Olivia Block and musicians such as Tony Buck (The Necks) and Tim Barnes (Text of Light), as well as with dancers, filmmakers, and artists from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Residencies and installations have included Triptych at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2009) and Abeyance at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Conservatory (2015), in addition to numerous festival performances and commissioned works. Individually, members of the group have recorded for a multitude of labels including Editions Mego, Relapse, Touch, Thrill Jockey, Kranky, and Another Timbre, among others.