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STEVEN HESS AND MILES TILMANN
***This is an actual vinyl mailout so the quantities are limited. We can provide digital version upon request. If you are a music editor or freelancer interested in receiving a copy, please email us to confirm or add your name to the servicing list.*** Departures LP - New Album Campaign Apr '08-June '08! Steven Hess is a drummer with a background in jazz, modern composition electro-acoustic sound and electronic music. He has collaborated with such artists as Greg Davis, Sylvain Chauveau, Christian Fennesz, and Robert Hampson, and is an active member of Pan American, Fessenden, Haptic and the Dropp Ensemble. Miles Tilmann creates evocative electronic music and soundscapes. An experienced composer, performer and collaborator, he's worked with various styles including ambient, experimental, and dance music. He has multiple solo releases on various labels, and has collaborated with and remixed artists such as Kate Simko, Machine Drum, Caural, Fessenden, and Mark DeNardo. Together they create a unique hybrid of improvised percussion and electronics, where Tilmann's deep bass tones and sublime waves of sound converse with Hess's intricate rhythms and textures: the sonic equivalent of a complex series of weather systems that assemble, unfold and disintegrate according to their own logic. Departures is Hess & Tilmann's forthcoming vinyl-only release on Other Electricities. Their synergy; starkly apparent within symphonies of unpredictable undercurrents and tonal atmospherics. The yield; a crossed-signal phase shift between airy and aqueous. Simultaneously intriguing and elusive through their manipulation of sound's depth of field, they successfully incorporate this often underused element, pressurizing shimmering pulses alongside chaotic decays. Praise for Departures "A great pairing of improvisation, musique concrete, dub, ambient in six particular strong tracks." -Vital Weekly "Lots of meditative possibilities, but hardly boring. Quite stirring in its own way..." -Aiding and Abetting
"mysterious and mercurial, hypnotic and intense..." -Ampersand, Etc. "Tilmann and Hess stoke swirling atmospheres of electronics-and-percussion improvisations, with Tilmann's vaporous washes and bass tones spread across an ever-evolving flow of percussive accents and patterns." -Textura Departures was also covered by: -Dusted -Just Outside
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