Matt Rösner
Empty, Expanding, Collapsing
Room40
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2023
CD
16.99
RM4197
Embossed sleeve, insert
Incl. VAT plus shipping / Orders from outside the EU are exempt from VAT
Tracklist
1Alpha
2Big History
3Ripples on Time
4Pulled back together
5Black lines
6Like the dust
7To hold your hand

»Empty, Expanding, Collapsing« was recorded in the months after the release of 2021’s »No Lasting Form«. Whilst »No Lasting Form« documented a return to the creative process after a long period away, »Empty, Expanding, Collapsing« comes from a more confident and assured place. In the heart of this record is an upright piano, loaned from a dear friend for safe keeping. Built in the 1898, the piano is heavy, laden with time, a resonant lead sound board and the carefully restored hammers and strings.

These pieces started as loose piano improvisations played in the early morning light to be later assembled alongside an array of guitars, electronics, synthesisers and percussion. Whilst the basis of the tracks started as tentative improvisations, the overdubbed parts were very much painstakingly written, rewritten and aged with sounds of the surrounding dune systems seeping through the wafer thin studio walls.

  • Matt, December 2022