Title: I Could See The Smoke Artist: Seabuckthorn Label: Lost Tribe Sound Product Type: CASSETTES UPC: 708527071298 Genre: Electronic Release Date: 2016-10-21 Number of Discs: 1
Cassette edition. 2016 EP from UK guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Seabuckthorn. Seabuckthorn's unique breed of guitar-based compositions have the ability to shift gear with such natural ease. Andy Cartwright - Seabuckthorn - wields his weapons wisely, choosing a minimal, yet powerful arsenal made up of various twelve string guitars, a well-worn resonator guitar, and deep accents of percussion. We hesitate to single out a particular style in the case of Seabuckthorn, as it rests comfortably alongside many genres. Americana and British folk are easy tags. The music also borrows from modern classical and drone. At times, even subtle cues of the Middle East enter the picture. Yet something more ancient is at work here, that recalls the minstrels of old, or the seafaring hymns of a long forgotten civilization. At times, the music comes full force, like an intense hunt through darkened woods, unleashing the resonator like half-tamed hounds, wild and relentless, a sickly horn-like sound rises from haze, a claustrophobic dread setting in the mind of the prey. In other moments, Cartwright's music plays with subdued, visceral tones that immediately fill the mind with imagined, yet familiar scenes: the hushed ember-lit nocturne for a desert at dusk; or the weary base-camp reveries at the summit of impassible cloud-capped mountains.
Tracks: 1.1 I Could See the Smoke 1.2 Seen As a Black Road 1.3 The Good River 1.4 Returnee 1.5 Overgrown Courtyard 1.6 Passage of Old
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