Micro Landscape of a Bathroom Sink
This music makes perfect sense after having said goodbye to a friend that is lost to hate and anger. I wish to return to days of my youth, to my peace loving parents. To sharing, listening and caring.
Artist-signed copy of the "Sylva" black vinyl LP in full-color sleeve and an original Polaroid from the artist's collection. Sold & shipped by the artist from the USA.
Designed by Julia Guther with photos by BP
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Artist-signed copy of the "Sylva" CD in full-color digipak sleeve and an original Polaroid from the artist's collection. Sold and shipped by the artist from the USA
Designed by Julia Guther with photos by BP
Includes unlimited streaming of Sylva
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Signed hardcover book with LP + unique Polaroid photo
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Artist-signed copy of the "Sylva" cloth-bound, hardcover book with foil stamping and over 100 exclusive Polaroid SX70 photos on high-quality, heavyweight paper. This edition includes the LP in full-color sleeve and an original Polaroid from the artist's collection.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Art Book with 100 pictures, 84 pages. 24x24cm, Hardcover in linen weave with metallic embossed printing. Includes LP.
Sold and shipped through Morr Music (DE)
Includes unlimited streaming of Sylva
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
€49.99EURor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Black vinyl with full-colour labels and sleeve, designed by Julia Guther with photos by BP
Sold and shipped through Morr Music (DE)
Includes unlimited streaming of Sylva
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
€18.99EURor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Art Book with 100 pictures, 84 pages. 24x24cm, Hardcover in linen weave with metallic embossed printing. Includes CD.
Sold and shipped through Morr Music (DE)
Includes unlimited streaming of Sylva
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
€44.99EURor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Compact disc in full-colour digipak sleeve, designed by Julia Guther with photos by BP
Sold and shipped through Morr Music (DE)
Includes unlimited streaming of Sylva
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
€13.99EURor more
This is a Pre-Order / shipping out around November 15, 2019
Art Book with 100 pictures, 84 pages. 24x24cm, Hardcover in linen weave with metallic embossed printing.
Sold and shipped through Morr Music (DE)
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First Single of the upcoming Album "Sylva" which releases on November 15th via Morr Music.
Kranky veteran Benoît Pioulard (né Thomas Meluch) has created his first full-length for Morr Music, complemented by a book of Polaroid SX70 photographs from more than two years of environmental explorations. The music on Sylva and its 60-page visual companion bear the beauty and strange shapes of nature: desert rock formations and colorful leaves, restless waters and peculiar plants. Meluch’s dreamy ambient drones and saturated lo-fi pop embody the impressionist sensation of his visual aesthetic – with this collection sound and vision are merged into an affectionate study of the organic.
Sylva is the result of one of the most productive periods in Meluch’s life. During a 9-month hiatus from his day job he embarked on daily recording sessions amid trips to the American southwest, Montana, Hawai’i and his native Michigan. Back home in Seattle, he developed his recordings and wrote the album’s two mesmerizing vocal tracks, which call to mind early Fleetwood Mac or peak pop-era Brian Eno. “Keep” is based on a tiny flower called Draba mentioned in the book A Sand County Almanac, about which “no one ever wrote a poem”; considering all the little plants he had inadvertently crushed throughout a lifetime of hikes, he wrote it for them. The piano-driven “Meristem” features a striking violin contribution from Freya Creech (London, UK), and is dedicated to Meluch’s brother, who died suddenly two years ago. Sylva’s other collaboration is the soaring vocal arrangement created for “Raze II” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer/singer Caroline Shaw (New York, USA), a former touring mate who resided at the Banff Centre (Alberta, CAN) during the same period in which Meluch completed his recordings there.
The album’s ten songs are divided into four movements: Solum (soil/solitude), Ignis (fire), Coeptum (seed) and Vireo (thrive), with each group embodying a slightly different environ. When paring down the photo collection Meluch abided three guidelines: no man-made objects, no redundant textures, and a color palette as diverse as his vintage camera allowed. From more than six hundred images, 102 were selected and arranged in diptychs with a preface from the artist. Book and album work well on their own, but by experiencing them together one finds a fundamental connection as well as a three-dimensional view into their creator’s perception of the cosmos.
An album for any time of day, as far as I'm concerned -- meticulous treatments and an impressive degree of detail for something that could still be called 'minimal'. Benoît Pioulard
Ulla's knack for combining wildly different textures into something so perfectly cohesive, is a constant wonder. I wish this record were 10 hours long. Benoît Pioulard
Chris is a master of mood, and his solo work is some of my favorite music of the past decade.. drifty and melodic, and always with a healthy analog glow. See also "I Am Humble and Powerful". Benoît Pioulard