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It's easy to speak of music in visual terms: line, texture, color. But ambient artists Stars of the Lid have gone a step further, incorporating field recordings of New York experimental line painter Jon McCafferty at work in his studio into their dark, isolationist sound tableaus. This was done as McCafferty painted the album's cover while listening to the band's music. It's an oddly compelling marriage; Stars of the Lid have always suggested the foreboding side of ambient pioneers like Robert Rich or Steve Roach, gliding sheets of tonal texture that evoke hidden spaces and endless corridors. McCafferty's paintings use stain, ur
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Manufacturer: Kranky
Release date: 18 November 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0796441802821 UPC: 796441802821
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Release date: 18 November 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0796441802821 UPC: 796441802821
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