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Here Appear

by Eve Essex

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    Released by Sky Walking, 2018.

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1.
Grind Away 05:27
Grind away until all that remains Is soft just like water Bend the bone Like water, able to flow No one is no bodies
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You say you want to know how I look I’ll show you how I look in the dark You say you want to know how I feel I’ll show you how I feel in the dark May we all get what we want You have no power over me Behold and you will see And yet I’ll accept your satisfaction theories
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I got a job I lost that job Forget that all I couldn’t tell you much about it That’s living the life of service
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Here Appear 07:43
Here nothing should appear Besides what is already here Nothing important should appear here Here nothing should appear Besides what is already here Nothing particular should appear here Nothing distinctive could appear here Nothing important could appear here Nothing definite could appear here
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Clear Light 04:34

about

Here Appear is an invocation, a salutation, and a celebration — of past and perfect lives, forgotten and remembered, exchanged and borrowed.

Eve Essex’s solo debut is a multi-instrumental fea(s)t combining synthesizer, drum machine, alto saxophone, piccolo, electric organ/harpsichord, harmonica, slide whistle, bells, guitar pedals, and voice— composed, arranged, and performed by Essex herself. What began as an improv set at Berlin’s Harlekin bar developed, over the past two years, into a complete body of work evoking multiple time periods, genres, characters, and sonic landscapes. The seven tracks that make up Here Appear harness elements of classical, drone, avant-jazz, and distorted pop, coupled with an ambitious vocal delivery that draws on the phrasing and articulations of Essex’s own woodwind playing, to create a quasi-narrative mélange retaining the vulnerability of live performance. On the opening track “Grind Away,” otherworldly harmonica strains set the stage for lyrics citing Chinese sci-fi novel The Three Body Problem as source material. Saxophone and piccolo interludes “Immediate Communicator” and “Colorless Stone” move between medieval-tinged melodic inventions and textural noise, recalling a Pharoah Sanders-influenced fever dream, while the linguistic abstractions of Russian conceptual poet Lev Rubinstein guide the looped, layered, and textured vocals of title track “Here Appear.” The album closes with a languid take on Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom’s 1978 composition “Clear Light” from My New Music, recently reissued by Unseen Worlds.

Here Appear owes its minimal production to the conditions of its genesis, evidencing the restrained process of the solo artist; instrumentation is confined to what can be played simultaneously. True to the album’s avant-garde roots, each song involves an element of improvisation, often taking the form of prompts or variations on a melody rather than explicit compositions. Even its most structured pieces make use of live-sampled loops, which inject a spirited unpredictability into the songwriting process and subsequent performance.

Here Appear arrives via New York City-based label Soap Library on March 9, 2018 in both cassette and digital format, mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, and recorded + mixed by Al Carlson at Gary's Electric, Brooklyn. Each tape includes a tactile complement — Justin Q. Martin’s cover artwork in the form of an embroidered patch. The LP release, from Berlin-based imprint Sky Walking, will follow in April 2018.

©2018 Soap Library // www.soaplibrary.net

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released March 9, 2018

All songs written and performed by Eve Essex
Excluding “Clear Light” by Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom
Recorded by Al Carlson at Gary’s Electric, Brooklyn
Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Justin Q. Martin
Design + Layout by Jonathan Campolo
Product Shots by Wolfgang Daniel
CAT#: SL006
www.soaplibrary.net
www.eveessex.com

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Eve Essex Brooklyn, New York

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Eve Essex performs with winds, voice and electronics, harnessing elements of avant-jazz, classical, drone and distorted pop.

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