Metallic Summer Sea

by Llarks

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1.	Ifsoever 05:22	buy track
2.	Metallic Summer Sea 06:58	buy track
3.	Array (At Night) 05:03	buy track
4.	Lighthouse 05:26	buy track
5.	Only Ours 07:30	buy track

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Metallic Summer Sea is the new cassette ep by Llarks and the title couldn't be more fitting for this collection of hallucinatory melodies and immersive squall of beautiful noise. And even when the music recedes into a dissonant minimalism, the tension emerges as a mixture of resignation and hope. Get lost and get found all at once on the Metallic Summer Sea!

Vital Weekly said this; This new one is “inspired by the dualistic qualities of metals and it’s infinite potential of being both fluid and solid”. As with his previous work as Llarks, it is not easy to say what it is that Jeely does here. I could easily think that the guitar is most important, but that is only based on the knowledge of his older projects and that the guitar was a primary instrument for him. I would say that there is ‘surely’ a guitar in here, but also, and probably on an equal footing, the use of sound effects. These can be stomp boxes or happen inside a computer but they are no doubt responsible for a lot that Llarks does. The five pieces here span thirty minutes of music (the other side of the tape is blank) and it spans the whole auditory trajectory of Llarks music. It starts out with rusty cascades of crashing metal in ‘Ifsoever’, winding down over the course, and then via fuzzy ambient roads to the very mellow ‘Array (At Night)’, which is the point of relatively relaxing in the middle, followed by the somewhat orchestral ‘Lighthouse’ (sparse in orchestration, quite nice) ending on the spacious drift of grainy textures of ‘Only Ours’ and we have in five pieces the full operative scale of Llarks. This can serve as an introduction or a further expansion of his music. This is another fine addition to an already fine body of works

This ep has been pressed as a 30 minute single-sided cassette. please use the blank side for personalization

horizon and sea photo by coen polack
sky colors by ian middleton
image rendering by llarks

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released February 9, 2018

recorded & mixed at the Haven
music by c.jeely (c) 1995-2017, bmi
guitar, organ & treatments by c.jeely

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Llarks Birmingham, Alabama

Llarks is the ambient / drone / dub project by guitarist & computer musician c.jeely. His music uses guitar, laptop & tape manipulation to create multilayered melodic compositions.

C has been actively releasing music since 1995 under previous projects Accelera Deck, September Plateau, The Trust Riots and more... ... more

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