Defining the term "laptop folk" way before it became fashionable to mix acoustic guitars and electronic sounds, Chicago's Greg Davis is keeping ahead of the curve once more with his second full-length, "Curling Pond Woods." While still retaining elements of "laptop" and "folk," Davis evolves from his debut with a larger array of instruments, richer arrangements, song structures, and vocals. Sections of acoustic songs intermingle in and out of drones, field recordings, and digital processing. Greg's range in   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Defining the term "laptop folk" way before it became fashionable to mix acoustic guitars and electronic sounds, Chicago's GREG DAVIS is keeping ahead of the curve once more with his second full-length, "Curling Pond Woods." While still retaining elements of "laptop" and "folk," Davis evolves from his debut with a larger array of instruments, richer arrangements, song structures, and vocals. Sections of acoustic songs intermingle in and out of drones, field recordings, and digital processing. G   [ read more ]

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Greg Davis' second album for Kranky following 2004's Somnia. Features two tracks over 51 minutes, 'Cosmic Mundra' is a subtle and slowly changing circle, a sun, the sun, the moon. Not the Arpeggio Minimalists, rather: the quiet time stretchers of long tones and long tones sustained and hyper-sustained until buzz value outweighs pitch, sounds seeming to fly around the screen, hyper-spiritual with hardly a word. 'Hall of Pure Bliss' is a chord and all sorts of wonderful sounds which live to its left an   [ read more ]

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Greg Davis' second album for Kranky following 2004's Somnia. Features two tracks over 51 minutes, "Cosmic Mundra" is a subtle and slowly changing circle, a sun, the sun, the moon. Not the Arpeggio Minimalists, rather: the quiet time stretchers of long tones and long tones sustained and hyper-sustained until buzz value outweighs pitch, sounds seeming to fly around the screen, hyper-spiritual with hardly a word. "Hall of Pure Bliss" is a chord and all sorts of wonderful sounds which live to its left an   [ read more ]

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A record or electronic record? Surely the rockers will think it's "electronic," while the computer kids will find it "rockist," and well...who knows what the folk listeners think. Regardless, Greg Davis has created a record that truly transcends these marketing genres. "Arbor" is something wholly new that manages to incorporate all these elements and more. In structural and aesthetic terms, think of a mix between John Fahey's early acoustic records, Fennesz' "Endless Summer," and Jim O'Rourke's solo work. G   [ read more ]

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The third album from composition and jazz scholar Greg Davis, and a collection of drone-oriented material Davis has been working on over the past two to three years. Each track features a single instrument (bowed psaltery, acoustic guitar, harmonica, Fender Rhodes, Magnus chord organ) played by Davis and then filtered through a computer. The tones that come out of the process bear little immediate resemblance to the instrument of origin, taking in extended and diffuse forms of their own.

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Defining the term 'laptop folk' way before it became fashionable to mix acoustic guitars and electronic sounds, Chicago's Greg Davis is keeping ahead of the curve once more with his second full-length, Curling Pond Woods While still retaining elements of 'laptop' and 'folk,' Davis evolves from his debut with a larger array of instruments, richer arrangements, song structures, and vocals. Sections of acoustic songs intermingle in and out of drones, field recordings, and digital processing. Greg's rang   [ read more ]

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Surely the rockers will think it's 'electronic,' while the computer kids will find it 'rockist,' and well...who knows what the folk listeners think. Regardless, Greg Davis has created a record that truly transcends these marketing genres. Arbor is something wholly new that manages to incorporate all these elements and more. In structural and aesthetic terms, think of a mix between John Fahey's early acoustic records, Fennesz'Endless Summer, and Jim O'Rourke's solo work. Greg Davis has been for   [ read more ]

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Long-awaited compendium of live recordings from New England's favorite bearded computer music duo Keith Fullerton Whitman (Kranky) and Greg Davis, recorded between 2001 and 2002 in parts of the world only read about by most. A ludicrously wide range of sound sources and stylistic leaps, this is the first collection of improvised laptop pieces from this duo, edited down from 18 hours to one concise 45 minute mind slayer.

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VINYL FORMAT. A record or electronic record? Surely the rockers will think it's "electronic," while the computer kids will find it "rockist," and well...who knows what the folk listeners think. Regardless, Greg Davis has created a record that truly transcends these marketing genres. "Arbor" is something wholly new that manages to incorporate all these elements and more. In structural and aesthetic terms, think of a mix between John Fahey's early acoustic records, Fennesz' "Endless Summer," and Jim O'Rourke'   [ read more ]

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