Midwinter, by August Stars

Midwinter

by August Stars

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1.	Nor'easter 07:07	buy track
2.	Winter Skies 08:05	buy track
3.	Glaçon 02:59	buy track
4.	Winter Wind Through Bare Trees 01:08	buy track
5.	Novembre et Décembre 05:00	buy track
6.	Wicken Fen 06:33	buy track
7.	Inland Rainfall 05:52	buy track
8.	December Twilight 22:37	buy track

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Review from Boomkat.com
The most recent set of recordings from Sebastien Wright's August Stars project, Midwinter - as its title suggests - communicates via an icy auditory language. Opener 'Nor-Easter' is of Thomas Koner proportions in its conjuring of auditory permafrost, setting the scene quite beautifully from the get-go. The ensuing pieces, 'Winter Skies' and 'Valse En Glace' are a little more sonorous, evoking an electronic bell sound to instil that 'cold day in Narnia' vibe. This simple yet massively atmospheric sound set is the dominant driving force behind much of the album, a pattern only broken by the time 'Inland Rainfall' is reached, when field recordings of watery motion and sinister woodland goings on grab your attention. Marking another change in tone, 'December Twilight' rounds off the album with a twenty-two minute dark ambient soundscape. All very beautiful, but Midwinter carries oddly unsettling undertones too. Recommended.

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released January 1, 2007

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Sébastien Wright Wales, UK

Sébastien Wright (August Stars / Still Crescent).

In blue winter rooms / in spinal landscapes.

Make Mine Music alumnus.

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