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It’s also about suspended time and trance; not just a steady movement from A to B, but as something that flows, meanders and eddies, like water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpecies, \u003c\/i\u003eand the transcendental state it embodies, was inspired by two recent loves of Moore’s: the desert and long-distance running. Briefly relocating from his New York base to Point Dume, between the Pacific Ocean and the desert, Moore was able to indulge in both passions, which in turn provided stimulus for new work. He says, “\u003ci\u003eI’d found myself in places unfamiliar enough that I could easily lose all sense of direction, size and, more than anything, all sense of time. The music I was making became a kind of reflection of these intentional detachments - and a place to mirror that feeling of trance that had pushed them out in the first place.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"4AD","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50458547618123,"sku":"1092687","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50458548797771,"sku":"1092688","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/58c5ffcc-d1b0-4b83-a70a-787fccbed22d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727211759"},{"product_id":"no-home-of-the-mind","title":"No Home of the Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver-evolving, Bing and Ruth is steered by composer David Moore, a pianist from Kansas and graduate of New York’s school of Jazz and Contemporary Music at the New School. Their line-up has transmuted from the eleven-strong line-up that created debut album \u003ci\u003eCity Lake\u003c\/i\u003e (“A stunning, humble record built on traditions we all understand, yet, somehow feels dizzyingly new.” – The Quietus) to a cast of seven for 2014’s \u003ci\u003eTomorrow Was The Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e (“One of the finest leftfield releases of the year.” – Pitchfork). With \u003ci\u003eNo Home of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, the ensemble has been streamlined to five and, after a year of heartfelt composition and with everything meticulously rehearsed in advance, the whole album was recorded in two days and in the fewest takes possible. An attempt to recreate the immediacy of classic session-style musicianship, where one-take recordings were a standard to keep costs down, \u003ci\u003eNo Home of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e explores piano’s percussive qualities alongside running woodwinds, warbling tape delays and splattered upright bass lines that stare out with a wide-eyed transcendence, taking so-called “classical” music to new limits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Double Black Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP+ - Limited Transparent Vinyl with Download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"4AD","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50495175262539,"sku":"1002478","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50495177195851,"sku":"1002479","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50495187779915,"sku":"1002477","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b8b0fbeb-8cdf-4250-b1e5-2fa5c681102b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727709385"},{"product_id":"tomorrow-was-the-golden-age","title":"Tomorrow Was The Golden Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eRIYL: Arvo Part, Steve Reich, Max Richter, Eluvium, Godspeed You Black Emperor! Second album by the NYC minimalist ensemble lead by David Moore. Tomorrow Was the Golden Age is an album length composition by minimalist ensemble Bing \u0026amp; Ruth. Written and conducted by pianist David Moore, Tomorrow Was the Golden Age is a halcyonic journey to a neverending place, where music waxes, wanes and drifts imperceptibly from silence to grand, glowing sound. Formed in the mid-aughts among music student friends at New York City's New School, Bing \u0026amp; Ruth's lineup has shifted with the scope of each recording. For Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, the group whittled down from the eleven players on their first album, City Lake, to seven: two upright bassists, two clarinetists, a cellist and a tape delay tech, all supporting David Moore's sublime yet resonant piano scores. Moore is responsible for the compelling melodies mediating the overarching ambience of Tomorrow Was the Golden Age. Outside of Bing \u0026amp; Ruth, Moore is also a multi-faceted composer, scoring under his own name and for old-time fiddle groups, which he describes as \"drone-based with a lessened concern for perfect intonation.\" These ventures illustrate Moore's unpretentious devotion to various musical traditions, yet Bing \u0026amp; Ruth remains Moore's principal project, where form ventures even further beyond recognition. With untethered textures inspired by the indeterminate music of Morton Feldman and later torch bearer Gavin Bryars, Tomorrow Was the Golden Age achieves canon-level quality for instrumental music. Within the piece's extended passages, Bing \u0026amp; Ruth wander through gradient fields of color, illuminated by a delicate architecture of slowly developing microtonal harmonies, Steve Reich-ian piano lines and the same analog tape delay that launched both Brian Eno's Apollo and the greatest dub reggae engineers into the unknown. Moore employed fundamental contrasts as the conceptual mode for Tomorrow Was the Golden Age. \"I wanted to take something from the darkness to the light and observe what that process would result in,\" states Moore. Daybreak offered one contrast, with its untraceable hues from dawn to sunrise. Silence and its intrinsic gift of listening offered another. The emergence of Tomorrow Was the Golden Age from the two is Bing \u0026amp; Ruth's epic and ultimate reprisal. The players on Tomorrow Was the Golden Age are David Moore on piano, Jeremy Viner on clarinet, Patrick Breiner on clarinet, Mike Effenberger operating tape delay, Leigh Stuart on cello, and Jeff Ratner and Greg Chudzik on bass, respectively. The album was recorded in Yonkers, New York and mixed in Brooklyn, with Brian Bender and Moore at the controls. Intended to be experienced at both high and low volumes, Tomorrow Was the Golden Age is perfectly calibrated for meditative backdrops, burrowed headphone listening and utter captivation when performed live. Its sonorous palette inspires emotional response across a dynamic field, welcoming a journey to and beyond tomorrow's promise\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rvng","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50914298364235,"sku":"380713","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9ed3efe5-6b5c-4ee4-8c46-2206e46acf13_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1732990570"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/bing-and-ruth.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}