{"product_id":"snow-palms-snow-palms-origin-and-echo-vinyl","title":"Snow Palms - Origin and Echo [Vinyl]","description":"Snow Palms - Snow Palms - Origin and Echo [Vinyl] \u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5051083120722 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Sheppard first conceived Snow Palms as a vehicle for music played\u003cbr\u003eon mallet instruments (metallophones, glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas,\u003cbr\u003eetc), devices that have featured intermittently across almost two decades-worth\u003cbr\u003eof the multi-instrumentalists miscellaneous collaborative projects that\u003cbr\u003einclude State River Widening, Ellis Island Sound, The Wisdom of Harry and\u003cbr\u003ePhelan-Sheppard, among a host of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSnow Palms 2012 debut album Intervals won a sheaf of approving notices\u003cbr\u003efor its ineffably cinematic blend of polyrhythmic percussion and richly melodic\u003cbr\u003eorchestration, partly achieved in collaboration with arranger-composer\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Leary (aka Ochre). Two years in the making, the follow-up builds on\u003cbr\u003ethe foundations of its predecessor, with a heavy quotient of metallophones,\u003cbr\u003eglockenspiels and marimbas at its core, but largely eschews the latters\u003cbr\u003echamber arrangements in favour of soaring synth-scapes and a palette of\u003cbr\u003espectral ambient and electronic textures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite that, Origin and Echo is a more performative record than was\u003cbr\u003eIntervals, its eleven organic, kinetic pieces meticulously constructed by\u003cbr\u003eSheppard from initial percussive skeletons largely essayed instinctively, in\u003cbr\u003efree time, without click-tracks and with almost no guitar. The album is loosely\u003cbr\u003epredicated on themes of mirroring and rebounding, whether physical or\u003cbr\u003emetaphorical, inspired by everything from the gravity-defying parabolas of\u003cbr\u003espace flight to patterns of human migration and feelings of dÈj‡ vu summoned by\u003cbr\u003enostalgic journeys.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe results are, by turns, hypnotic (the dreamy, tensile White\u003cbr\u003eShadows), symphonic (the ever-spiralling, near-anthemic Circling),\u003cbr\u003epropulsive (the inexorably escalating Rite), immersive (the harp-caressed\u003cbr\u003etintabulations of You Are Here) and poignant (Vostoks aching cosmic synth\u003cbr\u003eevocations, the mysterioso soundtrack undulations of Black Snow\u0026amp;). Along the\u003cbr\u003eway, there are nods to the film scores of Thomas Newman, the minimal\u003cbr\u003eelectronics of Simon Fisher-Turner, John Luther Adams vibraphone-based chamber\u003cbr\u003epiece In a Treeless Place, Only Snow, and several works by Japanese\u003cbr\u003ecomposers, especially those of Shimizu Yasuaki, Midori Takada and Ryuichi\u003cbr\u003eSakamoto.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the album is mostly the work of David Sheppard working alone or in\u003cbr\u003etandem with producer Giles Barrett, it also features cameos from previous Snow\u003cbr\u003ePalms collaborator Christopher Leary (synthesisers), alongside Emma Winston\u003cbr\u003e(Omnichord), Lauri Wuolio (cupola drum) and Village Green label-mate AngËle\u003cbr\u003eDavid-Guillou (keyboards). It arrives two years after Sheppards last major\u003cbr\u003erelease, his debut solo album, 2015s Vertical Land, which attracted some of\u003cbr\u003ethe best reviews of his career (An immersive journey into rhythmic motion and\u003cbr\u003evibrant, transportive texture, said MOJO; More entrancing than anything he's\u003cbr\u003erecorded to date, opined Uncut).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Dance \u0026amp; Electronic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Snow Palms","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43713918664902,"sku":"TKRMWH-8SUR-C6","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/8085\/0374\/files\/snow-palms-origin-and-echo_AKHbC.jpg?v=1762283901","url":"https:\/\/paladinvinyl.com\/products\/snow-palms-snow-palms-origin-and-echo-vinyl","provider":"Paladin Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}