{"product_id":"jason-sharp-the-turning-centre-of-a-still-world-lp","title":"Jason Sharp - The Turning Centre Of A Still World [LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: CST154LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0666561015411\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 27th August 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Electronic, Electroacoustic, Modern Composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRIYL: Fennesz, Christina Vantzou, Tim Hecker, Klaus Schulze, Ben Frost, Gas, Windy \u0026amp; Carl, Colin Stetson\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e180g LP with four 12”x12” art cards featuring Daïchi Saïto film stills and DL card.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMontréal saxophonist and electroacoustic composer Jason Sharp presents his third album on Constellation. The Turning Centre Of A Still World is Sharp’s first purely solo record and his most lucid, poignant, integral work to date. Following two acclaimed albums composed around particular collaborators and guest players, Sharp conceived his third as an interplay strictly bounded by his own body, his acoustic instrument, and his evolving bespoke electronic system. The Turning Centre... is a singular sonic exploration of human machine calibration, interaction, expression and biofeedback.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUsing saxophones, foot-controlled bass pedals, and his own pulse – patched through a heart monitor routed to variegated signal paths that trigger modular synthesizers and samplers. Sharp paints with organic waves of glistening synthesis, pink noise and digitalia. Melodic strokes and harmonic shapes ripple and crest across ever-shifting seas, through an inclement cycle from dawn to dusk. The album’s six main movements navigate a world where placid surfaces are always roiled and disquieted by a deeper inexorable gyre: the gravitational pull and tidal perpetuity of our bodies made of water, buffeted by terrestrial atmospheric pressures, wrung out by emotions, coursing with blood, sustained by breath, inescapably yearning for and returning to ground again and again. Sharp’s heartbeat literally courses through these compositions – while only occasionally surfacing as a clearly audible pulse or rhythm, it physically feeds into a spectrum of generative synthetic processes that help constitute and conduct the music.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe immersive, intensive, widescreen electronic works on The Turning Centre… could sit comfortably as a masterful and stellar contribution to the space\/sci-fi\/synth soundtrack genre, owing to their overall sound palette and oceanic scope. But this is ultimately deeper, grittier, earthier stuff – pulsing with terrestrial granularity, charting subterranean geographies of the heart and soul.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSharp chose an unsparing time to commit to a rigorously solo practice: pandemic lockdown occurred just as the first studio sessions with sound engineer Radwan Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart, Matana Roberts, Suuns) were scheduled to begin. While much of the central architecture and several themes had already been constructed, Sharp found his isolation music marinating in a socially-distanced anxiety soup beyond all imagining, yielding some profoundly deeper flavours and hues. As the album attests: he more than stuck with it. With sessions rescheduled under covid protocols in Fall 2020, Moumneh captured Sharp at a peak of technical, technological, and intangibly expressive power.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklist\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Intro\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Unwinding Surrender\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Velocity Of Being\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Blossoming Rest\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Upwelling Hope\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Humility Of Pain\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Everything Is Waiting For You\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Outro\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40082313019548,"sku":"CST154LP","price":23.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/unnamed_ce9d864e-a834-46dc-b0f1-a864b9e23885.jpg?v=1622913641","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/jason-sharp-the-turning-centre-of-a-still-world-lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}