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Sounds bounce, fold, and drift, appearing and disappearing like ideas mid-play. Soft, rolling passages turn bright and buoyant in a blink. Before you know it, you’re floating.
Another foggy day in Yorkshire. A steel gray sky. Raindrops tracing one another down the windowpane. Kirk Barley sits in his studio, assembling compositions from scraps of found sound and live instrumentation. Melodies swell, withdraw, and repeat like waves. Time slows. Accelerates. Slows again. The light bends, tweaked at the edges, twisted by rhythms that never quite resolve.
Written, recorded, and produced by Barley in Yorkshire in early 2024, Lux picks up where Marionette left off in 2023, conjuring a mystical, reflective space between formal minimalism and sonic imaginaries of northern landscapes.
Where Marionette at times relied on more recognizable field recordings, Lux leans into Barley’s skill as an instrumentalist and sound designer. Working from a palette of short samples and using a variety of alternate tuning systems, he builds, layers, and coaxes his compositions into being. Most evident on tracks “Vita,” “Sprite,” and “Descendent,” these tunings create an otherworldly harmonic language that is easier to perceive than describe.
€30,00
in stock
Sounds bounce, fold, and drift, appearing and disappearing like ideas mid-play. Soft, rolling passages turn bright and buoyant in a blink. Before you know it, you’re floating.
Another foggy day in Yorkshire. A steel gray sky. Raindrops tracing one another down the windowpane. Kirk Barley sits in his studio, assembling compositions from scraps of found sound and live instrumentation. Melodies swell, withdraw, and repeat like waves. Time slows. Accelerates. Slows again. The light bends, tweaked at the edges, twisted by rhythms that never quite resolve.
Written, recorded, and produced by Barley in Yorkshire in early 2024, Lux picks up where Marionette left off in 2023, conjuring a mystical, reflective space between formal minimalism and sonic imaginaries of northern landscapes.
Where Marionette at times relied on more recognizable field recordings, Lux leans into Barley’s skill as an instrumentalist and sound designer. Working from a palette of short samples and using a variety of alternate tuning systems, he builds, layers, and coaxes his compositions into being. Most evident on tracks “Vita,” “Sprite,” and “Descendent,” these tunings create an otherworldly harmonic language that is easier to perceive than describe.
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