Singer: Marcus Fischer
Title: Loss
Label: 12k ‎– 12k2037
Type: Vinyl, 12", Album, Limited Edition
Country: US
Date of released: 01 Sep 2017
Category: Electronic
Style: Ambient
Size MP3 zip: 1370 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1334 mb
Rating: 4.6✭
Format: MP3 AU XM DXD MP1 VOX MP2 RA FLAC

Tracklist

1	Nocturna
2	Veering
3	Strand
4	Loss
5	Murmurations
6	While
7	Home

Notes

Loss is the long-awaited and anticipated follow-up to Marcus Fischer’s acclaimed Monocoastal (12k1063, 2010). Fischer created Loss over several years, finding inspiration to complete it during his time at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida, in early 2017. The album is a particularly emotional work as Fischer explored what loss means to him and how to cope with the permanence of absence. The result is decisively somber and perhaps one of the darkest, most emotional albums in the 12k catalog.

Fischer manifested the concepts of loss in his compositions through the use of generation loss from reel-to-reel tape, re-recording sounds through various speakers in physical spaces, layering, and the use of sounds that have been physically displaced from their source. Conceptually, he listened inside the degradation of sound, pulling out chance moments of beauty and hope amid the rubble.

While Loss has a bleak and lonely tone, the music is characteristic of Marcus Fischer with fragile tape loops on the edge of falling apart, distant haunting melodies and a physicality that grounds the album’s human spirit.

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