℗ 2016 kranky
Released | October 28, 2016 |
Duration | 42m 34s |
Record Label | kranky |
Catalogue No. | krank205 |
Genre | Electronic (Ambient) |
1.1
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Horizon of Appearances
Steve Hauschildt |
6:31 | |||
1.2
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Same River Twice
Steve Hauschildt |
5:59 | |||
1.3
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A False Seeming
Steve Hauschildt |
3:19 | |||
1.4
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Ketracel
Steve Hauschildt |
4:34 | |||
1.5
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Time We Have
Steve Hauschildt |
5:50 | |||
1.6
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Strands
Steve Hauschildt |
5:17 | |||
1.7
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Transience of Earthly Joys
Steve Hauschildt |
6:43 | |||
1.8
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Die in Fascination
Steve Hauschildt |
4:21 |
"It’s hard to imagine why a fan of the genre wouldn’t find much to enjoy in this gorgeous and well-executed record."
- PopMatters.com
Strands from Cleveland electronic music artist and composer Steve Hauschildt is a song cycle about cosmogony and creation/destruction myths. The title alludes to the structural constitution of ropes, as the pieces consist of strands and fibres which form a unified whole. The songs could have the appearance of being either taut or slack without being fundamentally locked to a grid, so the sounds and tones have a certain malleability to them, as if bending through time.
"(It's) grittier and more distorted than my previous albums. I wanted to try and capture that moment in nature and society where life slowly reemerges through desolation, so it has a layer of optimism ... the music represents this by seemingly decaying at times but then reforms and morphs in a fluid way back to its original state. I was also inspired by the movement of rivers, particularly their transformative aspect ... in particular the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland where I live, which notoriously caught on fire 13 times because of industrial pollution ... I was very interested in the dichotomy of oil and water and the resulting, unnatural symptoms of human industry. It's a very personal record for me as it is a reflection of my hometown where I grew up and where it was mostly recorded."
- Steve Hauschildt
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – kranky Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.63 -1.47 to -0.43 | -15.51 -16.78 to -14.68 | -13.15 -14.40 to -12.00 | 9 8 to 10 | |
1 | Horizon of Appearances | -0.43 | -15.63 | -13.6 | 9 |
2 | Same River Twice | -0.47 | -15.14 | -12.7 | 10 |
3 | A False Seeming | -0.47 | -14.87 | -12.0 | 8 |
4 | Ketracel | -1.47 | -15.97 | -13.3 | 10 |
5 | Time We Have | -0.48 | -15.27 | -12.7 | 10 |
6 | Strands | -0.45 | -14.68 | -12.9 | 9 |
7 | Transience of Earthly Joys | -0.81 | -16.78 | -14.4 | 10 |
8 | Die in Fascination | -0.47 | -15.76 | -13.6 | 9 |