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Review: 'Chasny, Ben'
'The Intimate Landscape'   

-  Label: 'Drag City Records/KPM'
-  Genre: 'Soundtrack' -  Release Date: '5.11.21.'

Our Rating:
This is the new album of Library music that KPM Music asked Ben Chasny from Six Organs Of Admittance to produce.

The album opens with The Many Faces Of Stone a solo acoustic piece that has a bit of a Burt Jansch feel to it and is carefully picked to create a relaxed atmosphere.

Last Night To Use The Telescope is perfect to stare off in to space too, as this acoustic guitar piece slowly focusses on some far away constellation.

Waterfall Path has some gently descending guitar runs that trickle across the speakers. Crossed Wing Formation is the perfect soundtrack to watching a murmuration of Starlings creating patterns in the sky at dusk.

Water Dragon takes us into a field of leeks besides a babbling brook in the Welsh countryside as something dastardly is going to happen on a bleak autumnal evening.

Star Cascade keeps things flowing nicely with some very fluid playing that sounds influenced by Nick Drake and Davey Graham.

Where Have All The Summers Gone sounds rather autumnal as the long time passes and the cold evening draw in this will help keep a little bit of warmth in your soul, it's rather pretty.

Circular Road sounds more like the Surrey stretch of the M25 than any part of the North or South Circular, needing to be heard nice and loud as you whizz along the road.

Six Diamonds are sitting in a plush silk lined box rather than in the rough and this keeps the gently calming feel of much of the album going as it slowly sparkles at you.

Dust In The Ravine doesn't sound like a dust storm more like music to slowly walk down a dusty trail too while someone narrates your journey and some birds of prey circle up in the sky.

Fading Blue is acoustic folk blues picking, as you watch the sky fade from blue to red and black at dusk one evening, this sounds perfect to soundtrack a sunset too.

Second Moon takes us off on a journey to Mars to gaze deep into space and watch Phobos and Deimos float by us as slowly as this is strummed.

The album closes with On The Way To The Coast that probably needs to be heard as you catch the first glimpse of the coast as you drive into Scarborough and the water glistens in the distance and you prepare to walk along the water's edge.

Find out more at https://www.dragcity.com/artists/ben-chasny


  author: simonovitch

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