{"product_id":"murmer-songs-for-forgetting-lp","title":"Murmer - Songs For Forgetting LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOur Review:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe American ex-pat Patrick McGinley (aka Murmer) has now taken up residence in a rural village in Estonia after many years of wanderings and explorations. To this day, he continues to roam any and all environments, collecting field recordings and his own interventions with a particular place. It has been almost five years since his last solo work, but McGinley remains a steadfast champion the field recording within composition through his weekly Framework radio series, broadcast on Resonance FM and beyond through numerous radio and online outlets. \u003cem\u003eSongs For Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e highlights McGinley's talents in molding and shaping tone and subtle melody from deep within the fundamental sounds of a particular environmental sound. At the same time, he'll interject actual instrumentation. The playful clatter of McGinley tinkering with a zither ringing in the vein of Harry Partch set in motion against a humid chorus of cicadas and spellbinding dronescaping. Witness the psalter-like halo blossoms on the second half of the record, where we find McGinley bowing a Soviet era antenna mounted at the top of an near-space observational telescope. The resulting harmonics and pastorally minimalist drones are drop-dead gorgeous, as richly sonorous as anything Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine would compose through more conventional means. \u003cem\u003eSongs For Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e manifests into a beautiful record, packaged in an suitably rough-hewn, embossed sleeve that was fabricated at the Rapina Paper Factory in southeast Estonia. McGinley has included considerable notes and ephemera, turning this into an wondrous objet d'art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gruenrekorder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68007388479673,"sku":"udt1793062710730","price":19.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/9875\/6793\/files\/murmer---songs-for-forgetting-lp_1.jpg?v=1793062722","url":"https:\/\/seatcovers.shop\/products\/murmer-songs-for-forgetting-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}