why we love this

Brief glimpses into infinite time warps where loops have no beginning and end. In reckoning with the idea of stillness, Taylor extracts hallucinations from the ether that are spirited away right before we get to define them.

about the record

An elaborate, authoritative acoustic re-imagining of Taylor Deupree’s seminal electronic album Stil.

Sti.ll is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Taylor Deupree and arranger/producer Joseph Branciforte to bring Deupree’s explorations of extreme repetition and stillness into the world of notated chamber music. Clarinet, vibraphone, cello, double bass, flute, and percussion stand in for the digital loops and granular processing of Taylor’s original works, with meticulously notated arrangements preserving all the rhythmic, formal, and textural complexity of these compositions.

Transcribed and arranged by Greyfade’s Joseph Branciforte and performed by an ensemble of notable New York creative musicians — Madison Greenstone, Ben Monder, Laura Cocks, Christopher Gross, and Sam Minaie, alongside Branciforte and Deupree themselves — Sti.ll is a landmark recording situated between the electronic and acoustic worlds.