Fresh from Elevator Bath, comes one of the label's most stunning and ambitious outings to date, a X4 CD Box set, Any Way, Shape, or Form, collecting the Texas based composer Adam Pacione's entire Still Life series - created between 1999 and 2009 - in a single, standalone release. A visionary expanse of long-form works that rethink the terms and boundaries between ambient music and electronic experimentation, it's an immersive, sonorous journey into the inner world of one of the most interesting, outlier composers working today.

Founded in 1998, for more than 20 years the Austin based imprint, Elevator Bath, has carefully sculpted a discrete context of wonderful outliers within the field of experimental music, producing releases by Michèle Bokanowski, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Keith Berry, Andrew Deutsch & Tony Conrad, and numerous others, that veer toward the highly abstract and elegantly atmospheric. Among these, one of the most noteworthy is the Texas based composer Adam Pacione. Following upon two previous releases dedicated to his work, the label has now joined forces with Pacione again, producing what is arguably the most ambitious outing by either, a X4 CD box set, compiling Pacione’s vast Still Life series, originally issued on 3" CDs during the second half of the 2000s. Pulled from late night ambient/drone sessions embarked upon between 1999 and 2009 - many of which originally served as soundtracks to Pacione’s photography exhibitions in galleries throughout Texas - these recordings - meticulously remastered and augmented by two previously unreleased tracks from the same period - have helped redefine the terms of haunting, textural, electronic music, are stunning on both musical and conceptual terms, and are long overdue for the attention they rightfully deserve.

First emerging on the Texas scene during the mid 90s, armed with little more than a Quadraverb effects unit, a Yamaha synth, and a 4-track recorder, held together by rubber bands, over the last 2 or so decades Adam Pacione has radically expanded his own creative field, sculpting stunning electroacoustic works by combining modular synthesis with field and micro recordings, while bridging these sonic excursions with the context of visual art. Standing as a counterpoint to his fairly constrained discography of full-length releases, is his Still Life series, culminating as 14 hand-assembled, numbered, and signed 3” CDRs, self-released by Pacione's Bee Eater Recordings. It is this material, and a bit more - including the series’ first instalment, “Still Life”, originally issued as limited bonus disc with 2007’s “From Stills To Motion” - that is collected across the 4 CDs of the composer’s latest, “Any Way, Shape, or Form”, offering more than four hours of aural color and imagistic sound.

“Any Way, Shape, or Form” comprises 16 long-form compositions, created between 1999 and 2009, that range between 10 and 22 minutes in length (the majority falling on the longer side). Each delves into a facet - unified across the album’s length - of Pacione's singular sonic universe, seamlessly bridging the territories of atmospheric ambient music and drone. Each work is marked by a sprawling, spectral sense of space, sounds offered the ability to freely move and breathe as they shimmer amongst a collective of others, shifting between states of tension and tranquility to produce a truly immersive effect.

Overwhelmingly beautiful and creatively striking, Pacione's “Any Way, Shape, or Form” reveals a true master of the ambient form.