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esbo​ç​os

by mac dunlop

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Vacuum Task 05:32
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Ressurected Battery 04:29
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Daily Choirs 04:14
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Drawn Dew 08:19
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Malcolm's Song 08:40
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Coralled Reef 03:55
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Punch Clock TKO 03:59
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Ratcatcher's Hatchback 03:26
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Inflatable Embassy 02:50
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Crown Clown Slowdown 06:44
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Fat Cat Food Bank 08:45
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Lost Marbles 03:28
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Dez Rez Puree (part one) 05:16
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Dez Rez Puree (part two) 03:12
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release date: December 6th,2022

"and so begins the slow..."

Slow has gathered pace lately. Slow cooking, slow eating, slow dancing and so on. Slowing down isn't for living longer, or for making more than 24 hours in a day. Time is how you feel it. Instead of wondering where all the time goes, follow it and see where it leads.

This double album came in the magic of a moonrise. A collection of thoughts and whispers, slowing to convey the sensation and flow of feelings. The fourteen tracks reflect on different rhythms and styles. They are the 14 lines of an audio sonnet. 

Many influences inspire the voicing here, from Garner to Bley, Jarrett to Meldau, Montes to Coltrane. Their reverberations echo in every played piano, long after their hands have stopped. 

Esçobos is Portuguese for 'Sketches'. This is an album of ideas drawn in the air, of longing and searching, an exploration of the slowness in things. Enjoy.

p.s. Esboços would be called a "double album" in old vinyl.

 
Things been said:
"He has such a breadth of creative endeavors. We've got that more conventional piano sound, experimenting with the piano while also surrounded by analogue and digital tech gadgetry, as well as working in performance art and film. It's like narrative without words."
Sarah Gosling, BBC Radio 6
“I love it – just kind of dream like – snapshots of sounds and motifs going round like some kind of slightly unhinged music box.”
Elizabeth Alker, The Unclassified Show, BBC Radio 3
 
 Esboços the sonnet

and so begins the slow
waiting where the somethings dwell
the somethings no one meets
where the waiting only want
to wish away my uncle's tears
those crystal gazes lying
the earth a roof beneath their heads
who float and fix time in its stare
where all the timelines disappear
wearing sunrise as the dawn appears
the air a suite of clouds and rays
shimmering as the sea convenes
ghosts and smiles floating in its tides
where all has slowed and teems with life


cheers,
and thanks for your thoughts and support
mac dunlop

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released November 10, 2022

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mac dunlop England, UK

Star Thief is my latest release.
This concept album ranges across all of my interests in music poetry and sound. The individual tracks will also sit comfortably on any playlist.
I've really enjoyed putting this albumtogether.

"Spontaneously, the flight of albatrosses using thermals to glide over the ocean for days came to this reviewer's mind as he listened "

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jazz halo magazine ... more

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