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Shapes In Formation

by Sad City

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I Walked Bob Dylan On Stage! This album means something to me. It was the soundtrack to a certain period of my life. We all knew this album too well. Whenever one of us was was able to sneak the song Pace, Movements I-IV into the Que and the first two notes were struck, we would stop dead in our tracks and all look at each other with a joyous look. Eventually, the conversations that were occurring would cease until the eleven mins and eleven secs had ended! It was pure ecstasy I love you Sad City! Ten out of ten! Favorite track: Pace, Movements I-IV.
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Rain Call 06:43
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Steady Jam 11:54
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Smoke 07:38
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Water 01:07
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Again 03:33
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Meda Fury and Emotional Response are delighted to come together to present Sad City’s long waited debut LP. After critically acclaimed EPs for Underwater Peoples and Phonica Special Editions, this stunning long player has been in gestation for years but arrives with perfect alacrity.

Northern Irish born, Glasgow based musician, Gary Caruth been steadily building a successful ouvere of releases from his 2011 debut Gestures EP to appearing on Emotional Response’s “Schleißen" series last Spring.

Coming together across 10 tracks but very much recorded as one listening experience, Shapes In Formation mixes his love of field recording with deep ambient soundscapes atop incessant percussive loops. The melancholic sonics bely patterned tones that transport to that place where music and the silent reality of the world merges.

Moving beyond his recent ambient explorations, side opener Rain Call points to something beyond, a swirling meld of vocal loops and rhythmic pulses that promise anew. More follows in Pace, Movements I-IV and People + Plants, taking the sonic exploration onwards, creating compositions of symphonic beauty that challenge the listener to travel on distant, tribal syncopation.

We arrive halfway in this journey with the rolling jazz of Steady Jam. A delicate balance of restrained drum fills, hissing hats and gospel vocal bliss to create a tapestry that harks to Parrish’s Sound Signature as much to Cluster and Eno. Finally, to end via the cityscape of Smoke, the dream-interlude of Water and a truly elegiacal closer in Again, the album’s story is shaped as a truly unique form(ation).

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released July 29, 2016

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Sad City Edinburgh, UK

Gary Caruth,
Irish, based in Edinburgh.

Email: gtcaruth@gmail.com

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