Fallen, by Taylor Deupree

Fallen

by Taylor Deupree

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ajpoet Taylor Deupree's surreptitiously complex ambient compositions are prickly and calming all at once. "Fallen" is sparkling, tender and organic warmth for tired ears and bones. Favorite track: Sill.

editions vaché The sonic space of this collection- it began as a piano=driven collection before finding its way down the dusty corridors of Deupree's sonic reworkings..... a real gem. tm/ss Favorite track: The Ephemerality Of Chalk.

Auld Goggie The mystery of nature's simultaneous symmetry & asymmetry captured lovingly in sound. Highly recommended! Favorite track: Unearth.

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1.	The Lost See 06:04	buy track
2.	Paper Dawn 05:43	buy track
3.	Unearth 05:57	buy track
4.	Small Collisions 05:49	buy track
5.	The Ephemerality Of Chalk 07:16	buy track
6.	Sill 05:25	buy track
7.	For These In Winter 03:26	buy track
8.	Duskt 07:18	buy track

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Released on Spekk (Japan) with limited CD copies available from 12k.

"When I sit down to write an album I will usually come up with a technical and compositional concept to help focus my writing. Whether it is a restricted palette of instruments or a specific way of approaching the writing, this practice has helped me explore different processes and helps keep the album focused.

My previous album Somi was such an album. Hyper-focused and very deliberate in creation. However, there are times where I want to be more relaxed and just write what comes freely. In a way Fallen is such an album. When I began writing it the only strong rule I put on myself is that it would be my first album centered around the piano as the main instrument.

There were times when I wanted Fallen to be an album for solo piano but the more I pushed and explored the more I was drawn to accompanying the piano with modular and Moog synthesizers, tape machines and the occasional guitar.

Fallen was supposed to be, after all, a relaxed album, one that would come quickly, off-the-cuff, and with little regard to any rules or restrictions. It, however, ended up being one of the longest albums for me to create; well over a year and a half, as it had coincided with a particularly dark and difficult time in my personal life.

As the album progressed the thoughts of a freer, solo-piano sound quickly faded as layers of disintegration and noise came to the foreground. Half-broken tape machines and plenty of ghostly echoes helped hide the honesty of the piano as I hid myself, and my music, away under the cover of abstraction.

In a way, I feel that Fallen is most like my album Northern. One that was intended to be more free-spirited but became very much about a particular place and time. "

- Taylor Deupree

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released February 23, 2018

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Taylor Deupree Pound Ridge, New York

Taylor Deupree is the founder of 12k, an independent record label based in a rural area north of New York CIty. Started in 1997, 12k has pioneered a form of experimental ambient music involving delicate hybrids of digital technology and acoustic instrumentation. ... more

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