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Drawing inspiration from various genres including ambient, drone, and electronic music, loscil crafts intricate compositions that captivate the mind and transport the listener to another realm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar artists to loscil include Pan-American, Brian McBride, Stars Of The Lid, Deaf Center, The Dead Texan, Tim Hecker, Chihei Hatakeyama, Murcof, The Sight Below, Tomasz Bednarczyk, Fennesz Lawrence English Rafael Anton Irisarri Benoît Pioulard Taylor Deupree Celer Windy \u0026amp; Carl Susumu Yokota Christina Vantzou Bvdub.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"monument-builders","title":"Monument Builders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonument Builders \u003c\/i\u003eis the new album from Loscil, the ambient \/ electronic project of prolific composer Scott Morgan. It was primarily created on sample-based instruments in Morgan’s century-\u003cbr\u003e old Vancouver home. Like that aged space, this music is also rough-hewn, with rickety samples of boiling kettles and resonant moving air. 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The timbre of the instrument and spatial fluctuations of room tone infuse the music\nwith a subdued, sacred feel, like vaulted light in a nave of stained glass. They describe the album as “an\niterative project, a reduction and eventual expansion,” sifting the swells and drones of the organ for every\nshivering shade of radiance.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tracks are named for the hue each piece suggests – from the gauzy levitational miasma of “Yellow” to\nthe pulsing melancholic mirage of “Violet” to the seething twilit sandstorm of “Magenta.” Morgan and English\nare both adept at conjuring moods of muted grandeur, like landscapes veiled in dusk, still looming and\nluminous.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere their combined powers open pathways to heightened realms of deep listening and bewitching restraint,\nfinding flickering infinities in ancient configurations of wind, brass, stone, and dust.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50418499486027,"sku":"2178932","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50418496962891,"sku":"2004081","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KRANK236_7909fa29_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726741436"},{"product_id":"submers","title":"Submers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAvailable on vinyl for the first time, Scott Morgan's second Loscil full-length, \u003ci\u003eSubmers\u003c\/i\u003e, took inspiration from salvaged \u003ci\u003eTime Life\u003c\/i\u003e classical music LP’s and \"the indelible mystery of submarines and the deep sea.\" Composed using a custom-built Max\/MSP sequencer – with no external samplers, synthesizers, or acoustic instruments involved – the limitations of the process shaped these masterful, minimal compositions. 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Despite their limited palette, the compositions summon a sense of the infinite, swelling and swimming through luminous depths. Certain tracks percolate over narcoleptic metronomes while others slowdive in shimmering shadowplay, sounding at times like some noir music of the spheres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Morgan's compositional premise for \u003ci\u003eClara\u003c\/i\u003e was quite defined, the resultant work is wonderfully opaque and spatial, equal parts lush and lurking, traced in fine-grained gradients and radiant silences. 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