Steve Hauschildt: Strands - COMPACT DISCS

Steve Hauschildt: Strands - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Strands Artist: Steve Hauschildt Label: Kranky Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 796441820528 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2016 10 28 Number of Discs: 1 2016 release from the electronic musician and former member of Emeralds. "Strands is a song cycle that is about cosmogony and creation destruction myths. The title alludes to the structural constitution of ropes as I wanted to approach the compositions so that they consisted of strands and fibers

Title: Strands
Artist: Steve Hauschildt
Label: Kranky
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 796441820528
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2016-10-28
Number of Discs: 1

2016 release from the electronic musician and former member of Emeralds. "Strands is a song cycle that is about cosmogony and creation/destruction myths. The title alludes to the structural constitution of ropes as I wanted to approach the compositions so that they consisted of strands and fibers which form a unified whole. This was so the songs could have the appearance of being either taut or slack without being fundamentally locked to a grid. So the sounds/tones have a certain malleability to them and sound like they're bending through time. It's also grittier and more distorted than my previous albums. I wanted to try and capture that moment in nature and society where life slowly reemerges through desolation, so it has a layer of optimism looming underneath. The music represents this by seemingly decaying at times but then reforms and morphs in a fluid way back to it's original state. I was also inspired by the movement of rivers, particularly their transformative aspect and how they're in a state of flux and change, in particular the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland where I live, which notoriously caught on fire thirteen times because of industrial pollution in the 1960s and before. I was very interested in the dichotomy of oil and water and the resulting, unnatural symptoms of human industry. It's a very personal record for me as it is a reflection of my hometown where I grew up and where it was mostly recorded."-Steve Hauschildt.

Tracks:
1.1 Horizon of Appearances
1.2 Same River Twice
1.3 A False Seeming
1.4 Ketracel
1.5 Time We Have
1.6 Strands
1.7 Transcience of Earthly Joys
1.8 Die in Fascination