Earthen sea –

Grass and trees

Jacob Long's reductionist rhythmic ambient vessel, Earthen Sea, ebbs towards a more purely elemental state on his second excursion for Kranky, Grass And Trees. He describes the creative process as one of "simplifying things as much as possible," designing uncluttered spaces traced in nothing but breath, field recordings, and "sounds that could be played by hand but weren't." The results feel decentralized but dynamic, low-lit evocations of ambiguous nocturnal environments-dub techno disassembled into stray pulses and spare parts. It's a music both interior and infinite, languorous yet transformative, made in the outer boroughs of a metropolis but existing in it's own liminal wilderness.Long's vision is a grounding one, rooted in the physical body but attuned to larger currents: "In response to living in a fairly hectic city, and at a very hectic time for the world at large, creating something more drawn back and restrained felt appropriate."

Country of Pressing	US
Artist	Earthen Sea
Released	2019
Music Genre	Pop / Rock
Label	KRANKY
Condition	New
UPC	796441822218
SKU	al-796441822218

1.1 Existing Closer or Deeper in Space
1.2 Window, Skin, and Mirror
1.3 Spatial Ambiguity
1.4 A Blank Slate
1.5 Living Space and Usually
1.6 Shallow, Shadowless
1.7 Less and Less