Album:
Alden
Format:
Year:
2021
Edition:
Ltd.150
Detail:
'Alden' makes its home with the ever popular 'Book Editions' series. Vintage books dissected, re-assembled and re-structured into book-bound CD covers. West Australian experimental duo Gilded return with their second album, a release nine years in the making following on from their acclaimed 2012 debut Terrane. Gilded are Matt Rösner, best known for his solo works on 12k and room40 and his long-running collaboration with Seaworthy, and Adam Trainer who has played in various Perth-based indie and experimental rock acts over the course of two decades
Alden builds on the sound world introduced on Terrane, alternating between repetitive organic rhythms and textural ambient passages. Gone, however is the piano that formed the basis of so much of Gilded’s debut. Here it’s replaced by vintage synthesizers, often processed into unrecognisable forms, and an array of field recordings that are arguably more present and bolder than they had been previously. Alden is a more insistent record: less plaintive, but somehow more optimistic. At times recalling the rhythmic post-rock of Fridge or Radian, at others the spacious textural ambience of 12k artists, it is nonetheless a distinctive and wholly original work and one that sits alongside Gilded’s debut whilst simultaneously forging a new direction for the duo
Content includes: 1 x vintage (circa:1881-1952) hardback clothbound book (re-assembled into CD covers, 2 x CD, 15-20 pages of writing / images, 20 x A7 polaroid prints on luxury uncoated paper (designed by Craig Tattersall), 1 x A6 stumped / numbered print (luxury Gesso paper 320grm), 1 x stamped library card, 1 x vintage photograph (circa; 1907-1948), 1 x vintage book-mark, 1 x page insert (Henry D. Thoreau - Walden / circa; 1950), 1 x vintage numbered celluloid negative (5x4") in original glassine bag, 1 x vintage 35mm glass slide, 1 x 35mm reel to reel film strip (trip to Alden), stamped / hand numbered / scented, all of the above rests inside glassine bags, made with love...
Condition:
SEALED
Sound file:
€ 35