Notes From Isolation Part II

by Ryan Crosson

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2.	Rafter 08:32	buy track
3.	Solitaire 05:34	buy track
4.	Pale Rider 04:46	buy track
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Ryan Crosson’s Part II—the latest installment in his three album set with NFI recordings—leaves behind the first LP’s cinematic horizons in exchange for the somber realpolitik of darker atmospherics and sound design. If Part I looked to the empty, open spaces of an oddly Covid-evacuated world, Part II examines instead the closed space of the self cut off from it. Granular sampling and synthesis become, in the conceptual scheme of the record, more than production techniques to process sound but rather tools by which to process the granularities of selfhood re-worked by Covid's dislocations. Still unwilling to commit to a full album of low frequency metronomes and rhythms (because there is no rhythm to our current life), Crosson’s Part II employs instead prepared pianos and dub leaning textures, while nodding to Ennio Morricone and the soundtracks of Spaghetti Westerns, to better approximate the out of tempo percussive and affective swings of the previous year.

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released May 7, 2021

Mastered by Kamran Sadeghi
Artwork: Hernan Sanchez
NFI Recordings 2021
RCBA Publishing

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Ryan Crosson Brooklyn, New York

A Motor City, Berlin, London hybrid, Equal parts energetic, down to earth Detroit native and ultra-refined, musical aesthete. Co-founder of Visionquest, Visionquest Special Editions, Brachtune.
Founder of NFI Recordings.

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Theoretical Speed
Birds & Souls
Visionquest
Merveille & Crosson
Sweatshop Boys
Berg Nixon ... more

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