Earthen Sea - Ghost Poems Fulfilled By FYE It's both an uncompromising void

It's both an uncompromising void and maybe as close as you'll ever come to communing with that loved one again

are accompanied by violinist Denis Murphy (1910-1974) on this 1960 album

and brainy lyricism reign supreme throughout the 16-track project

whether it was self-manufactured darkness or just bad luck

Earthen Sea - Ghost Poems Fulfilled By FYE It's both an uncompromising voidJacob Long's third Earthen Sea outing for Kranky, Ghost Poems, further refines his fragile, fractured palette into fluttering arrythmias of dust, percussion, and yearning. Composed during the first wave of lockdowns in New York, the pieces took shape patiently from samples of piano, texture, and domestic sounds (sink splashing, room tone, clinking objects), filtered through live FX to imbue them with an intuitive, immaterial feel. Wisps of melody