Biota
Fragment For Balance (CD)
LabelReR MegacorpGenreFolk & Traditional
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After 4 years of work on their 11th release for ReR, Biota, this extraordinary, reclusive, and highly individual audio-visual collective continues to evolve through the painstaking accumulation and disposition of a seemingly incompatible range of both exotic and familiar musical languages, instruments, techniques and studio manipulations – into one of the few genuinely original bands at work today. It took a long time to refine their unique process of composition to this level of ambiguity and depth, and newcomers will wonder how they strayed so far from orthodoxy and yet managed to retain a lucidity and transparency that is quite rare in contemporary music. Timeless, almost weightless – yet teeming with life, motion and complexity – this is a music that suggests an untroubled world in which nostalgia, tragedy and agon, while rudely present, remain subservient to deeper, calmer currents. Sic transit gloria mundi.
More plainly, these are not conventional compositions, nor are they collective improvisations; but are made of simultaneities, conspiracies, accidents, careful planning and a guiding aesthetic that is both exacting and empirical. A classic.
Release notes
Packaged in a Digipak with an illustrated 32-page booklet that includes artwork, credits, release information, and tracklist. Recorded, mixed, edited, mastered: Dys Studio (Bellvue, Colorado) between Spring 2016 and Fall 2018 Hammond, accordion, & kaen recorded at Brookfield, Wisconsin Rhodes, trumpet, flugelhorn, & chimes recorded at Fort Collins, Colorado Music boxes on (13): Ame, Neena, and Nigel Whitlow Made in USA In memoriam: Joy Ann Froding 1958-2015, Charles O'Meara 1953-2018 All…
| 1 | Either Without The Other | 5:18 | |
| 2 | Telling | 1:01 | |
| 3 | Separate Chance | 3:23 | |
| 4 | Kirree/Fishing Song | 1:47 | |
| 5 | The Flandyke Shore | 3:05 | |
| 6 | Key Ring | 2:29 | |
| 7 | Other Thing Lake | 2:30 | |
| 8 | On A Level Place | 2:38 | |
| 9 | Balancer | 1:50 | |
| 10 | Rivers Apart | 4:00 | |
| 11 | Desperate Times | 5:11 | |
| 12 | Unspun | 1:19 | |
| 13 | Cast Out For Light | 4:40 | |
| 14 | Compass Well | 2:26 | |
| 15 | Walking Is Missing | 9:48 | |
| 16 | Whirl Quarter Moon | 1:14 | |
| 17 | Halflight | 2:29 | |
| 18 | Sender Vine | 2:22 | |
| 19 | To Brigg Fair | 2:43 | |
| 20 | Corner Shade | 1:22 | |
| 21 | Earlier An Encounter | 1:51 | |
| 22 | Rabbit In The Rain | 1:29 | |
| 23 | Cloud Pale | 1:24 | |
| 24 | Remember Even Though | 1:02 | |
| 25 | Lost While Found | 0:38 | |
| 26 | On Laurels | 4:48 |
- Gordon Whitlow
- Accordion, Organ [Hammond Electric, Estey Pump], Khene [Kaen], Edited By, Mixed By, Recorded By [Hammond, Accordion, & Kaen]
- Mark Piersel
- Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [Resophonic], Mixed By
- William Sharp
- Arranged By, Engineer, Edited By, Electronics [Electronic Processing], Graphic Design, Mixed By
- Mnemonists
- Artwork By [Paintings/Drawings/Collages/Photographs]
- Biota
- Composed By, Producer [Production], Arranged By [Arrangements], Mixed By [Mixdown]
- Larry Wilson
- Drums [Kit], Percussion
- Tom Katsimpalis
- Electric Guitar, Bass, Guitar [Nylon], Twelve-String Guitar, Bass [Crown], Keyboards [Clavioline], Graphic Design
- Randy Miotke
- Electronics [Electronic Processing], Mastered By [Final Mastering], Mixed By, Recorded By [Rhodes, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, & Chimes], Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Chimes
- Randy Yeates
- Keyboards [Biomellodrone]
- Charles O'Meara
- Piano
- David Zekman
- Violin, Banjolin
- Kristianne Gale
- Voice
- James Gardner
- Woodwind [Electronic Woodwind Motifs]
- Trad.
- Words By, Music By (5, 10, 15, 19)
