Graham Reid | | <1 min read
The Temple is the nom de disque (if we might come over all Paris Olympics) for Peter Liley, Nathan Carter (who performs as Alter Natural) and Jack Woodbury.
Composer/producer Woodbury and saxophonist/composer Liley have appeared at Elsewhere with the excellent Unfathomed Waters on Rattle (which found a home in our Further Outwhere pages), Woodbury also with his electroacoustic release inst. 19-20 of his sounds for installations, also on Rattle.
This album features two lengthy pieces: the title track at 27 minutes and Lullaby at 17.
What immediately separates Temple's work from other ambient albums is Liley's saxophone which burrows into repeated lines at the midpoint of Vastness Vastness where it is supported by vigorous percussion, both of which create a transgressive ebb and flow after the lengthy, lulling atmospherics and ambience of the first half. The final third delivers lengthy, restful lines across a more familiar, gentle tidal swell and circles back to the beginning.
Lullaby is like a more burned continuation of that with fried distortion and soft static adding a caustic edge to the meditative atmosphere.
As with Woodbury's inst. 19-20 this music sounds created for a gallery space or a place where listeners pull up a bean bag in a darkened room, get comfortable and let the sounds take them where they will go.
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You can hear and buy this album at bandcamp here
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