Colin Andrew SHEFFIELD
“Don’t Ever Let Me Know”
19,00€
In stock
About “Don’t Ever Let Me Know”
Don’t Ever Let Me Know is Sheffield’s first solo release since 2018’s Repair Me Now (Glistening Examples) and is a work in a similar mode to that album in that it comprises two lengthy pieces of multiple movements and moods. For this new work, and as a kind of ode to his late father, Sheffield has employed samples entirely taken from (or inspired by) the city in which both men were born. In this way, the sounds have been utilized as a kind of shorthand for the specific subjects at hand. The two audio assembla ges, meanwhile, mirror the ways in which loss and memory are processed – with both melancholy and wonder in equal measure: at once beautiful and confounding.
The audio has been mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. The LP has been released in an edition of 200 copies and comes in a lovely jacket featuring photography by the late Allen W. Sheffield and extensive spot gloss printing.
About Colin Andrew Sheffield
Colin Andrew Sheffield (b. 1976, El Paso TX) is a composer whose work is focused on the recontextualization of samples derived from various commercially available recordings – generally those taken from his own expansive collection of records, tapes, and compact discs. Conceptually his output is akin to plunderphonics-style sound collage, though aesthetically it is seemingly closer to soundscapes of ambient drone. Since his earliest recordings from the 1990s, his work has developed into a kind of hybrid of the aforementioned approaches.
Don’t Ever Let Me Know est la première sortie solo de Sheffield depuis Repair Me Now (Glistening Examples) en 2018 et est une œuvre au mode similaire à cet album, en ce sens qu’elle comprend deux longues pièces aux mouvements et aux ambiances multiples. Pour cette nouvelle œuvre, et comme une sorte d’ode à son défunt père, Sheffield a employé des échantillons entièrement tirés de (ou inspirés par) la ville dans laquelle les deux hommes sont nés. Ainsi, les sons ont été utilisés comme une sorte de raccourci pour les sujets spécifiques abordés. Les deux assemblages audio, quant à eux, reflètent la manière dont la perte et la mémoire sont traitées – avec autant de mélancolie que d’émerveillement : à la fois beau et déroutant.
L’audio a été masterisé pour le vinyle par James Plotkin.
200 copies.
