Habitat, by Leon Louder / Scattered Ensemble

Habitat

by Leon Louder / Scattered Ensemble

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1.	Quartz & Silex 03:31	buy track
2.	Markings 03:47	buy track
3.	Calls 04:25	buy track
4.	Splinter 05:17	buy track
5.	Eddy 02:16	buy track
6.	Full Of Light 05:05	buy track
7.	Icebreaker 04:27	buy track
8.	Myriad 04:01	buy track
9.	Underpass 06:30	buy track
10.	Debris 03:43	buy track
11.	Bouquet 02:37	buy track
12.	Flock 01:24	buy track
13.	Radio Fires 04:04	buy track

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Montreal-based composer Leon Louder spent the 2020-21 lockdown period in remote collaboration with four fellow musicians, exploring tones from homemade and traditional instruments and percussion, using a mixture of live sampling and improvisation to create aleatoric tonal landscapes. Inspired by a stay on a remote island in the St-Lawrence River estuary, where the weather can shift dramatically from serene to turbulent at any moment and the dialogue of birds, insects, and seals is omnipresent, Habitat is a sequence of restless sound worlds, an impressionistic depiction of a constantly changing ecosystem that had its parallel in the emotional turmoil of pandemic time.

Like the phenomena they approximate, the pieces exist in a continual state of composition and recomposition. Populated with melodic fragments that call and respond, break apart and ricochet, they ask the listener to live in the music as much as to listen to it, accepting discord as equal to harmony, chaos as part of the order.

The individual tracks are strikingly varied, not only in their vocabularies of sound but in the moods they create and the hints of environment they evoke. They range from "Full of Light", in which mesmerizing bell and woodwind tones interweave in melodic counterpoint, building to a gently driving train-like rhythm that conjures some sort of Celestial Express -- to "Underpass", whose low dark sounds and simple repeated rhythms carry us down through subterranean strata bored out by primeval life forms, into what feels like a maze of subway tunnels on another planet.

The recordings bring into play double bass, vibraphone, homemade zithers, piano, modular synthesizer, and found percussion, and feature collaborators from the Montreal experimental music community: radio artist Martin Rodriguez, multi disciplinary artist Gabrielle Godbout, drummer and electroacoustic composer Samuel Bobony, and multi instrumentalist Rodney Sothmann.

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released June 14, 2022

Leon Louder: sampler-sequencer, homemade instruments, piano, voice
Rodney Sothmann: double bass, xalam, on tracks 1-12
Gabrielle Godbout : vibraphone on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, & 12
Martin Rodriguez: radio, cymbal, modulars on tracks 1, 5, & 10
Samuel Bobony: drums and found objects on tracks 4 & 7

Additional Instrumentation:
Laetitia Lebedeff - violin on track 3
Antoine Bedard - percussion on track 10

Special Thanks: Benjamin R. Taylor, Antoine Bedard
The Canada Council for The Arts and the CALQ.

Mixed by Leon Louder
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

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Leon Louder is a Canadian composer and music producer with a varied practice combining different strains of underground dance, experimental electronic, and improvised electroacoustic music. He also manages a small physical/digital record label called Unfulfillment. ... more

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