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kranky (usa) #krank 141 lp

loscilendless falls” double long playing record set

  • endless falls (7:55)
  • estuarine (8:21)

  • shallow water blackout (7:07)
  • dub for cascadia (6:07)
  • fern and robin (7:11)

  • lake orchard (7:41)
  • showers of ink (8:44)

  • graupel (5:28)
  • kinematics (4:19)the making of grief point (8:54)
march 2010 release ; fifth album from vancouver’s scott morgan, moving further & further away from the straight-up muted berlin-style techno of his first few outings & getting into some, frankly, dynamite aggregates of held-chord string-stasis & lush, cycling filtrations ...
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artist: loscil
title: endless falls
catalog #: krank141
release date: march 01, 2010

endless falls is the fifth full length release by scott morgan under the loscil moniker. the album begins and ends with the sound of rain recorded by scott in his back yard, precipitation being a constant presence in his home city of vancouver. many of the other sounds on the album are derived from these same recordings, processed and combined with other harmonic sounds to create the textures and drones.

something completely new to this release would be vocals, of a sort, a first for any loscil composition, contributed by daniel bejar on the final track. scott states :

the collaboration with dan made us both incredibly nervous. dan felt out of his element doing 'spoken word' but rose to the challenge. i felt self-conscious about changing the listening perspective from abstract, ambient music into foreground, conscious listening. the first time i heard dan's voice recording i was terrified and was tempted to call the whole thing off. i listened to it a few more times and it completely grew on me. now i can't imagine that piece without his performance. i love dan's use of words, his vocal rhythms and the intimate intensity of his voice.

jason zumpano is the only returning performer from past collaborations, he is responsible for the piano parts. kim koch and robert sparks make appearances on violin and bass recorder. the cover photos for the album were taken from the backseat of the family car by scott's newest collaborator, his 4 year old daughter sadie.

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kranky (usa) #krank 141 cd

loscilendless falls” compact disc

  • endless falls (7:55)
  • estuarine (8:21)
  • shallow water blackout (7:07)
  • dub for cascadia (6:07)
  • fern and robin (7:11)
  • lake orchard (7:41)
  • showers of ink (8:44)
  • the making of grief point (8:54)
march 2010 release ; fifth album from vancouver’s scott morgan, moving further & further away from the straight-up muted berlin-style techno of his first few outings & getting into some, frankly, dynamite aggregates of held-chord string-stasis & lush, cycling filtrations ...
kranky press release...

artist: loscil
title: endless falls
catalog #: krank141
release date: march 01, 2010

endless falls is the fifth full length release by scott morgan under the loscil moniker. the album begins and ends with the sound of rain recorded by scott in his back yard, precipitation being a constant presence in his home city of vancouver. many of the other sounds on the album are derived from these same recordings, processed and combined with other harmonic sounds to create the textures and drones.

something completely new to this release would be vocals, of a sort, a first for any loscil composition, contributed by daniel bejar on the final track. scott states :

the collaboration with dan made us both incredibly nervous. dan felt out of his element doing 'spoken word' but rose to the challenge. i felt self-conscious about changing the listening perspective from abstract, ambient music into foreground, conscious listening. the first time i heard dan's voice recording i was terrified and was tempted to call the whole thing off. i listened to it a few more times and it completely grew on me. now i can't imagine that piece without his performance. i love dan's use of words, his vocal rhythms and the intimate intensity of his voice.

jason zumpano is the only returning performer from past collaborations, he is responsible for the piano parts. kim koch and robert sparks make appearances on violin and bass recorder. the cover photos for the album were taken from the backseat of the family car by scott's newest collaborator, his 4 year old daughter sadie.

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kranky (usa) #krank 096 cd

loscilplume” compact disc

  • motoc (5:38)
  • rorschach (7:42)
  • zephyr (4:20)
  • steam (6:29)
  • chinook (5:57)
  • bellows (5:15)
  • halcyon (5:48)
  • charlie (7:22)
  • mistral (4:58)
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artist: loscil
title: plume
catalog #: krank096
formats available: cd
release date: may 22, 2006

fourth full-length from vancouver-based sound artist scott morgan. he continues to refine the visual aspect of his performances and recently released a download-only drone album on net label, one.scott morgan notes: "compositionally, many tracks on plume are similar in approach to first narrows; they started with a harmonic root from which sounds were processed into a loose structure over which the live players could improvise. there was substantially less editing this time around with the live tracks. i opted to choose the better improvised passes and merely mix them in and out rather than cut them up. i think this leaves a lot more natural space and balances the heavily structured and repetitive electronic elements with more organic performed layers. jason zumpano returned from the first narrows ensemble and i also recruited long time friend steve wood and my partner krista to play some ebow guitar as well as josh lindstrom to play some xylophone and vibraphone which i believe added a nice new element into the mix.

thematically, i stuck with things that are quintessentially loscil; flow, subtle movement, gradual transition, growth. also of significance to this album is the family connection. "charlie" was composed after seeing/hearing my daughter sadie through ultrasound while she was still in the womb. the track was also partly composed as a womb-like sound experience for her to sleep to after she was born, hence the heart beats...
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kranky (usa) #krank 069 cd

loscilfirst narrows” compact disc

  • sickbay (6:13)
  • lucy dub (7:19)
  • first narrows (10:19)
  • emma (7:31)
  • modo (5:42)
  • brittle (7:33)
  • cloister (8:59)
third album from vancouver native scott morgan, working a similar sub-aquatic sound-set as heard on the prior two records, only this time with live instrumentation added to the fold.

lulling, and at times queasy, scott’s proven to be a force in his own right ...
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artist: loscil
title: first narrows
catalog #: krank069
formats available: cd
release date: may 10, 2004

first narrows is the third loscil album and the first in which scott morgan uses real instruments and input from other musicians. using sound sources that ranged from sampled instruments to miscellaneous lo-fi mini-cassette recordings, morgan generated music on computer by custom programming sequencing and processing designed so that no two performances of the patches would be exactly the same. in turn, jason zumpano on fender rhodes piano, tim loewen on guitar and nyla rany on cello improvised over those electronic sequences. morgan then edited and mixed the live and premixed sections together.

first narrows is named after the first gap to the entrance of the burrard inlet, over which the lions gate bridge spans; the main entrance into vancouver from the pacific ocean. by including a loscil track on their compilation of canadian electronica alongside artists like tim hecker, polmo polpo, ghislain poirier and thomas jirku, the intr_version label confirmed that loscil deserves placement among the unique practitioners of electronic sound arrangement.

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kranky (usa) #krank 058 cd

loscilsubmers” compact disc

  • argonaut 1 (7:12)
  • gymnote (6:01)
  • mute 3 (7:32)
  • nautilus (7:01)
  • diable marin (4:15)
  • resurgam (7:37)
  • le plongeur (7:09)
  • triton (6:45)
  • kursk (7:10)
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artist: loscil
title: submers
catalog #: krank058
formats available: cd
release date: november 4, 2002

submers is the second album from the vancouver-based scott morgan aka loscil. all of the tracks are named after submarines, the final cut being a requiem for the crew of the ill fated russian nuclear vessel kursk.

recorded at home on computer with samples and keyboards used as sound sources, submers is rife with source less echoes, steely surfaces and ominous melodic and rhythmic undertows. the sifted melodies are layered over muffled, clicking and pulsing rhythm tracks with an appropriately aquatic feel to the entire album.

after the release of the loscil debut, triple point, morgan toured europe in early 2002 and released an ep on the uk involve label. submers is an album that easily merges ambient , contemporary classical music and minimal techno in defiance of the current mania for micro-genres.

submers is not an exercise in process for its own sake. melody, texture and rhythm are all at work to make a truly deep listening album.

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kranky (usa) #krank 049 cd

losciltriple point” compact disc

  • hydrogen (3:37)
  • ampere (7:27)
  • pressure (4:36)
  • zero (4:14)
  • discrete entropy (5:24)
  • fuel exergy (6:04)
  • enthalpy (5:01)
  • conductivity (7:40)
  • vapour (5:13)
  • absolute (9:57)
debut album by loscil; slightly more click-thump oriented than the excellent string of albums that follow ...
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artist: loscil
title: triple point
catalog #: krank049
formats available: cd
release date: october 29, 2001

triple point is based on the concepts of thermodynamics, the physical science which investigates the conversion of heat into mechanical force or energy and vice versa.

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