#kerry leimer

Avantgarde electronic ambient walking through the paths of Brian Eno, Harold Budd or Roedelius. A conceptual and contemporary approach to Early music, exploring its ambiences, timbres and feelings. Delicate experimentation with sound textures where different tones of white noise can meet the strings from a viola da gamba. A cinematic work, very touching and emotional. Almost mystic, spiritual ambient. "These three pieces spring from a love of Early Music, specifically the works of Sainte-Colombe, Marin Marais and John Dowland. Each of these composers — their lives spanning a period of great musical innovation and change from 1563 to 1728 -- is represented by a track included here. While there are no direct quotations present from any of their pieces there is a now familiar reliance on timbre and even on drone, elements that flourished in the often slowly-paced and harmonically narrow style of Early Music. Those stylistic elements have been taken up today, deliberately or not, by Ambient, Dark Ambient, Post-Ambient, and Slow Music artists. In atmosphere Early Music often evokes a melancholic — even elegiac — sensibility appropriate to the present time." — K. Leimer "These three tracks were inspired by the shadows, streams of sunlight, muted colors and peaceful interior ambience of Spanish cathedrals. Calm and mystery combined." — Marc Barreca K. Leimer and Marc Barreca are two American synth/multi-instrumental musicians that have been active since late 70's. Their previous collaborations are available on Leimer's Palace of Lights imprint and much of their earliest work has been reissued by labels like Vinyl on Demand, Rvng Intl and Freedom To Spend.

An example of "remote collaboration", Savant was assembled by Kerry Leimer to explore the possibilities of heavily manipulated music in a more familiar rock context. Collaborators were rarely allowed to hear more than a single part of any piece, responding to verbal instruction and click tracks. Their contributions were then edited, reprocessed, rearranged, treated and sometimes looped to create the illusion of standard song forms. The results are often compared to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (thanks to the use of found voices, a technique used by Leimer one year earlier for the Land of Look Behind score). 

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K. LEIMER / Permissions (CD) 米シアトルのアンビエント作家 K. Leimer こと Kerry Leimer の自主レーベル Palace Of Lights から発表した2012年作品「Permissions」。本作は、12k レーベルの Taylor Deupree が追加の声、ポスト・プロダクション、エディット、ミックス、マスタリングで参加しており、事実上２人のコラボレーション作品となっています。マイクロ・サウンドのテクスチャー、エレクトロ・アコースティック・サウンド、フィールド・レコーディングがさざめき合う、レイドバックした瞑想的なサウンドスケープで、時折、牧歌的な12kのリリースを彷彿させながらも、インダストリアルな表情も持ち合わせています。Permission 01-16 とシンプルに名付けられたトラック名は K. LEIMER の芸術的な手腕を様々な角度からスナップショットのように切り取っているかのようです。

Recently snagged the LP. Obscure ambient/electronic artist in the vein of Jon Hassell, Marc Barreca and Kerry Leimer.

From “A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975 - 1983)” (2xLP.  Rvng Intl. ReRVNG03. 2014 / rec. 1975-83)