NYC-based guitarist Brian Wenckebach has been pushing the boundaries of ambient and post-rock for years under as a solo artist (the one-man project MIS+RESS) and a band member (Elika, Measured Thee Koukouvaya), but his new album A Morning, A Life is his long-awaited debut that bears his own name. Wenckebach's tone is instantly recognizable. His fluidity serves as a soothing layer for his knack to indulge in abstract motifs.
Painting with sound is a challenge and it takes years of practice to get it right. One bad note can ruin the mood and a carefully constructed composition comes crashing down. Wenkebach has mastered the art - he can even get away with fucking up on purpose during Everyone We Love Is Dying. Instrumental albums are rarely huge sellers - most people want words, although they don't pay much attention to the actual lyrics - but being a big guy in a small niche is not so bad. A Morning, A Life is a trip that visits 16 places and all of them is a landmark in its own right. Most some of them only last three minutes or less, but each one of them is a treasure trove fully deserving close inspection.
A Morning, A Life is released via speciality label Automatic Entertainment (180g. black vinyl, digital). The vinyl version was mastered by Simon Scott (Slowdive) at SPS Mastering.
- My Life Went By Like A Dream
- Nerds Ruining Baseball
- Goodbye, May Kasahara
- The Jordache Look
- Everybody I Know Drinks A Screwdriver
- Clouds
- Polar Orbit
- A Girl Abstractionist
- A Drinking Life
- Shorty’s Rosa
- The Claustrophobia Of The Forest
- Everyone We Love Is Dying
- The Betterment Of Well People
- People Crying In Chairs
- Shimmer
- Crazy Robots Dudes (digital only)
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