Lignum Muzek, by Nicholas Maloney

Lignum Muzek

by Nicholas Maloney

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1.	Lignum Muzek 1 24:52	buy track
2.	Black Forest Sighs 17:07	buy track
3.	Tàlga 09:59	buy track
4.	Lignum Muzek 2 37:37	buy track
5.	Windblown Sanctity 15:52	buy track

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Released on enmossed as a limited edition cassette tape. Sold out via the label. Remaining copies available here.

"From Jackson, Mississippi, Nicholas Maloney carves a vision of lo-fi atmosphericana. Though there is some use of traditional instruments, like guitar, organ and banjo, Lignum Muzek functions more like a weather vane. Field recordings of natural spaces around Mississippi result in bouts of almost-silences, which are less sound, more detectable pressure change. But then there’s the occasional insect, a sheet metal’s melody. A barely recognizable trombone, the sigh of trees.

Minimalist in arrangement but planetary in room size, the longform tracks move between spatial experiment and texture-as-mood. Wood has a heavy presence on the album—Maloney saws it, throws it off a roof onto a shed. But musique concrète is just one of the tape's dimensions. There are affective swells, romantic and buoyant, but still they retain a climatological sensibility. The artist’s interest in pushing the listener’s focus leads to deep listening gone weird: Lignum Muzek evokes that feeling when the sounds of Earth suddenly become understood as cosmological events, alien, gorgeous, and terrifying."

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released November 20, 2020

Recorded, mixed, and mastered August-November 2019.
Composed using field recordings of wooden structures, trees, large outdoor spaces, wood degradation, and various natural sonic environments around Mississippi - along with prepared acoustic guitar and banjo, woodwinds, trombone, sheet metal, thrown objects, cassette tapes, voice, synthesizers, and organ.

organ, wood-cutting and throwing, metal-shaking assistance (on track 4) :: Stephen Curley

composition and synthesizer assistance (on track 2) :: Cole Beaune

artwork :: Astrid Bowlby (instagram.com/honeypetal1961/)

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Nicholas Maloney Nashville, Tennessee

Nicholas Maloney is a sound artist working with field recording and a variety of instruments and electronics to create an abstract world of immense complexity and range. Maloney's work expresses stillness and activity, lightness and dark, in order to provide a rich imaginative space for listeners to explore.

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