EL Heath
"A (Rather) Dead Sea Liner"
EP
Dead Sea Liner
Genre: drone, avant-garde,
ambient
Shrewsbury, UK
Mar 30, 2009 |
This nautically-themed
EP is the brainchild of Eric Heath (aka EL Heath – the L
stands for "Loveland"), a solo drone artist operating out of
Shrewsbury, UK. It is a brief but satisfying artifact of which only
seventy copies exist, and each comes packaged with a page from a book
on ship navigation. The music itself is gentle, listenable drone that
incorporates organic instruments as well as electronics. The results
range from movingly eerie (the chilling hum and piano strokes of "Felixstowe
Sirens (Sing to You)," the stormlike urgency of "Yar She Bellows") to
more warm and welcoming (the beautiful folk-drone of "Bees'" and the
hypnotic sheen of "Waves 'Goodbye'"). The songs, though abstract, do
evoke feelings of being out in the middle of the ocean – a sort of
pure, foggy ambience that at once refreshes and mystifies. This is a
strong EP, although it should be longer!
EL
Heath's myspace
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"something" video
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 5 tracks,
limited to 70 copies, distributed by
the
label,
released 2008] |