{"product_id":"marcus-fischer-simon-scott-shape-memory","title":"Marcus Fischer, Simon Scott - Shape Memory","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eShape Memory is the first full-length recording made through a collaboration between 12k label mates and friends Marcus Fischer and Simon \u003c\/span\u003eScott. In the fall of 2017, on a free day between US tour dates for Slowdive (for which Simon is the drummer), the pair managed to conceptualize and record an album at S1\/Synth Library in Portland, OR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eIn advance of their meet up, the pair shared sounds and recordings and then dubbed them on to cassette tape loops. Field recordings, processed \u003c\/span\u003eacoustic sounds and synthesizer found their way to these tapes. In person, once they had a system of looping tapes playing back, they layered additional live elements: a bed of cymbals and scattered percussion, contact mic’d objects, live sampling, guitar and modular synths.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShape Memory unfolds as a 36-minute piece (divided into three movements) rich in texture and deep connections. Fans of both artists’ solo works \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewill recognize shadows of their unique aesthetics but the beauty lies in the new direction they chose to take it together. There’s a captivating \u003c\/span\u003edensity to the sound with plenty of atonal moments highlighted by the metallic resonances of the cymbals. Floating drones underpin granular guitar scattering while tape loops, lost in noise, provide a rhythm that’s not quite there. By the end, deep tones, mysterious and murky, take over, darker than each artist often goes.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollaborations are all about creating a new entity beyond the expected from the members. Shape Memory is an album that’s not simply the sum \u003c\/span\u003eof its parts, but a new creation from two talented explorers and friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Ferns \u003cbr\u003e2. Thorns \u003cbr\u003e3. Branches\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"12k","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":67994759037204,"sku":"12k1088","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1035\/0284\/0084\/files\/12k1088mini.jpg?v=1793920679","url":"https:\/\/primeunion.shop\/products\/marcus-fischer-simon-scott-shape-memory","provider":"Linden \u0026 Oak","version":"1.0","type":"link"}