Nicolas Snyder – Spell of Remembrance

Description

Organic textures, intricate field recordings and cinematic tendencies collide on Los Angeles-based sound artist and composers first release on Evening Chants: a spiritual pilgrimage through universal memories, crafted in dialogue with the Earth, pink skies and lives forgotten.

Los Angeles composer and producer Nicolas Snyders second album, Spell of Remembrance, is a spiritual embrace of spontaneity, searching for spaces of dreamlike mutation. Following the deliberate spatial stasis of his 2020 full-length, Temporary Places, Nicolas Snyders first release on Evening Chants presents ambient music with an active, percussive sensibility, crackling with life via unpredictable amalgamations of field recordings, found sound, and manipulated palettes of earthy instrumentation, traversing woodwinds, dulcimers, harps and more.

Crafted via stream-of-consciousness approaches, Spell of Remembrances twelve serpentine tracks morph in an elegant, ever-constant flux simultaneously meticulous in their through-composed nature, while breathing with a delicate cinematic impulse, assisted by Snyders background in film and sound design. Snyders assemblages come via both self-collected sources and serendipitous encounters: from scavenged 1960s horn recordings forgotten in abandoned tape reels, to the producers self-dubbed thups samples and rhythmic derivations from Snyders field recordings of nature.

Snyders spiritual concerns deeply influence these processes of assembly. Evoking and uniting images of forgotten lives and cosmic memories, the albums transformative flow mirrors his concept of transcendental experiences, reconciled as singular wholes across individual lifetimes. But though in part also informed by the composers nostalgia and childhood experiences, Snyders second album reaches far beyond personal recollection seeking to touch upon universal experiences that transcend individual memories, while also examining the liminal spaces that lie between accessing them. Presented in dialogue with both the earth and lives forgotten alike, Spell Of Remembrance is a spiritually resonant journey through universal memory, in search of summoning something far greater the recollection of ones personal divinity. (via Label)

Label: Evening Chants
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: Singapore
Released: 2022
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Style: Ambient, Experimental

File under: Leftfield / Singapore