16 Oct 2012 — Henning Lahmann
For a long time now, Colorado-based imprint
Patient Sounds' tagline has been "small run / large ambition", and
as reported last week, Matthew Sage and his crew now intend to expand significantly, starting to pursue their business in a more serious manner by putting out two releases on vinyl for the first time - and for that, they need your help (they already got mine) to successfully finish their
Kickstarter campaign. Here's what Tiffanie Collins and Matt have to say about their project:
As you can see
here, there's still quite a lot of funding to be done, so if you got some spare pennies, please consider contributing to one of this website's favourite labels.
One of the two records that Patient Sounds aims to press on vinyl with the Kickstarter revenue is Matthew Sage's own latest work,
Lux Collapsing, a gorgeous 40-minute meditation that may be streamed in full below courtesy of
Stadiums & Shrines. In Dave Sutton's beautiful words:
There’s something almost perpetually undone about Lux Collapsing—as if destined never to fully crystallize, but rather circulate like dust in a room, exposed to motion, coating the surfaces of the subconscious. A sense of curious unease is present throughout; it drags us off the edge of “Prairie Belle”, stalks the fable of “Sweeping Glances”, and climbs the minor strings of delicate closer “Two Exteriors: Daylight”. In Matt’s words, the album is a “40 minute, eight track meditation on light in the west, decay and forgetting…a post-classical ambient piece, focused on the profound nature of light and timelessness.” At its core Lux borrows from old vinyl cuts, which have been stretched and subdued to distant memories. Suspended above them, and intertwined, cello, flute, and guitar work from Sage and a cast of Fort Collins friends complete the movements. It’s a massive if modest collection—one might say just right, depending on the time and space of any given day in flux.
