Jim Wallis - In Huge Gesturing Loops [Ltd Edition Red Vinyl]

Cat. no: TIPT056
Format: LP Ltd Edition Red Vinyl
Barcode: 0604565804730
Release Date: 08 Sep 2023
Genre: Electronic

Limited edition (300 worldwide) Fire-Engine-Red heavyweight 180gm vinyl LP

'In Huge Gesturing Loops' is a new ambient solo album by multi-instrumentalist and Modern Nature member Jim Wallis Built around recordings by the acclaimed pedal steel player Henry Senior, the album's six hypnotic and enveloping tracks are supplemented with piano, strings, synths and feld recordings performed by Wallis.

The making of the album took an unplanned route. During the winter 2021 lockdown, Wallis began work on an album of more conventional songs, sending several to Henry Senior (Danny & The Champions Of The World, Honey Harper) to record pedal steel parts remotely. Though subsequently deciding to shelve the album, he realised that Senior's pedal steel outlines of the songs formed the basis of something completely different.

The result is an immersive, meticulously crafted album that recalls the ambient pedal steel work of Chuck Johnson and Daniel Lanois mixed with the ethereal post- classical instrumentation of Stars Of The Lid and the feld recording work of Claire Rousay.

'In Huge Gesturing Loops' is Wallis' fourth release in as many years. The album's title comes from a poem by Philip Larkin. The artwork was put together by designer Luke Jarvis based on the 1930s swimming pool on Marshall Street in Soho, where Wallis swam regularly while working on the album.

Press:
Album preview: Uncut Playlist: On The Stereo May 2023 issue.
Uncut covermount track inclusion (Ciphers) & Uncut Album Review confrmed:
July 2023 issue
15QCreative Process Interview
Backseat Mafa Album review
Uncut: "...its gentle ambience is quiescently becalming" Playlist & Review
The Arts Desk :"A pleasingly gloopy brain-bath" Album Review
Ransom Note : "neo classical and ambient music in an enchanting, unique fashion"
AquariumDrunkard - Diversions feature
Secret Meeting: Favourite Tracks - New Music Recommendations
Echoes & Dust: "an elegy for unity throughout the world."
For The Rabbits
Sound of Violence (FR)
Magnetic Magazine: Ambient Meditations Premiere

Tracks: Set My Watch To You / Ciphers / Parachute / Floating Opposites / Peripheral Vision / In Huge Gesturing Loops