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Daniel Davies Signals - Smoke Vinyl - Sealed US vinyl LP album (LP record)
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Whether scoring a film or making a solo album, Daniel Davies thinks cinematically. Images and story – on a movie screen, on a canvas, or flashing through his mind – inform the shape of his compositions and the sounds he uses to bring them to life. For Signals, his first solo record for Sacred Bones, the inspiration for his musical narration was a collaboration with visual artist Jesse Draxler, whose otherworldly mixed media works grace the cover and the booklet.
“I had an instant connection to Jesse’s art,” Davies explains. “One of the main concepts for this album was working with the feeling of uncertainty. Jesse’s art illustrates that perfectly with his disruptive shapes. At first, they are foreign to the landscapes they live in, but over time we become used to them, we adjust. The foreign objects force us to evolve, to accept and live with the uncertainty they create.”
Using Draxler’s images as his jumping off point, Davies created eight richly textured compositions that created a soundtrack for the unsettling world of the artwork. “Musically, I wanted to capture that same contrast — melodies evolving out of drones, haunting beds of tension with beautiful shimmering melodies laid above. What were once conflicting emotions became harmonious.”
As the songs move through the landscape, Davies calls on whatever instrumentation he needs to serve their journey. He utilizes the warbling synths and slicing guitar that have characterized his soundtrack work, but he’s also preternaturally at ease when he busts out a harpsichord and a vocal synth on lead single “Phantom Waltz.” On “Destructive Field,” he leaves space for his Halloween collaborator John Carpenter to lay down his signature sound. With the exception of that passage, all the music on the record is recorded by Davies himself.
While the results indeed feel cinematic, Davies is liberated by the absence of a film to score: “While scoring a movie, I serve the director’s vision and focus on telling a specific story. When working on an album, I’m free to create my own narrative and be more experimental.”
That freedom is evident in the many sumptuous details on Signals. It’s an album with a lot to discover, and repeat listens will reveal an inviting – if a bit unnerving – world that you’ll want to spend all day in.
A1. Last Days
A2. One Hundred Years
A3. Origins
A4. Destructive Field
B1. Beyond Megalith Illumination
B2. Possessor
B3. Phantom Waltz
B4. Visible
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
| Availability: |
In Stock - Buy Now for shipping on Monday 20th May
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| Year of Release: |
2020 |
| Artist: |
Daniel Davies (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Signals (click here for more of the same title) |
| Price: |
£ 24.99, US$ 31.74
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| Format: |
vinyl LP album (LP record) |
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| Record Label: |
Sacred Bones Records |
| Catalogue No: |
SBR-242 |
| Country of Origin: |
USA
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
Unconfirmed
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| Additional info: |
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
5D6LPSI815561 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
843563123805 |
| Genres: |
00s Artists, Experimental, Film & TV, Film Composer, Film Soundtrack, Post-Rock, Synthwave
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| Related Artists: |
John Carpenter |
| Complete Stock List: |
Daniel Davies |
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| Alternative Names: |
None |
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Call +44 1474 815010 quoting EIL.COM reference number 5D6LPSI815561 |
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