Via Prah Recordings:
New album from acclaimed cellist Oliver Coates who recently played with Actress at his sold-out London Barbican show. Fuelled by caffeine, nervous energy and early Orbital and Photek, “Upstepping” is an album of newclassical electronic experimentalism where Coates pushes the boundaries of what a cello is capable of.
As Coates explains, “About 95 per cent of the sounds are derived from recording the cello and processing it digitally. A hi-hat equivalent is often a distorted, compressed and heavily EQ’d horsehair-on-steel stroke. All the melodic pitched sounds, even the ones that feel like keys, are samples of the tail of a cello harmonic. For example, ‘Perfect Love’ is a study in grey, concealing the source – it’s 100 per cent made from different types of cello attack.”
The result is an astonishing record rich in the sonic and rhythmic palette of dance and electronic music – with hints of early rave, garage and the sounds of 1980s London pirate radios – and one which re-defines the possibilities of classical instrumentation.
Recommended for fans of Floating Points, Burial, Actress, Steve Reich, Circle Traps etc.
Tracklist:
1. Innocent Love
2.Timelapse (Walrus)
3. Bambi 2046
4. Perfect Love
5. Memorial To Hitchens
6. The Irish Book Of Death & Flying Ships
7. Stash
