SIMON SCOTT (SLOWDIVE) - NAVIGARE - Mint LP
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SIMON SCOTT - NAVIGARE - Mint LP MIALP011
Simon Scott is a British sound artist and multi-instrumentalist - he was the drummer UK band Slowdive and also in The Charlottes, Televise, and Inner Sleeve.
Released on the Norwegian independent record label Miasmah in 2009.
Miasmah describe 'Navigare' "as opening with 'Introduction of Cambridge' - a shimmering wall of sound, its ethereal tones and slow burning drones gradually drawing closer and closer, creating gorgeous uplifting melodies and textures. The processed guitar combined with gentle swathes of interference and underlying rhythms echoes the processes of Chain Reaction's productions as much as it does the screeching, arcing feedback lines of Kevin Shield's guitar work. If this is to be considered 'shoegaze' in any way, it's certainly a giant step in possibilities...this album is way too forward-thinking to be pigeonholed so easily. 'Navigare' shares an affinity with the melodic content of Fennesz's work, the dark beauty of Tim Hecker's sound, and houses elements of the restraint found in Andrew Chalk's drone compositions.
Scott's ability to merge ambient passages with such memorable melodic cycles, taking at times the simplest of ideas and building on them, generating murky hooks and submerged 'riffs' - melodies are initially buried beneath a haze of sound, and then over time are lifted to the forefront. Scott explores textures using a variety of instruments including sitar, violin, cello, and flute, merging them with excerpts of field recordings; it all sounds so effortless. The looping rhythms and slow guitars rise and grow, at times approaching something oppressive; select pieces such as 'Flood Inn' house an underlying weight, comparable to Justin K. Broderick's Jesu and Final projects. Perhaps the hazy drums, bass and guitar drift of 'The ACC' presents the most recognizable of stylistic qualities from Scott's back catalogue; a groove that recalls the 'Souvlaki' era sound in all its glory, reimagined in a new, darker and more expansive form. "
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