Jacob Long will release his third album as Earthen Sea on Chicago label Kranky, titled Ghost Poems.
As Earthen Sea, Long explores the vast sonic textures in between techno, ambient, and experimental electronics, having logged time in vital hardcore and dub-punk projects such as Black Eyes and Mi Ami.
Ghost Poems further refines the New York producer’s fragile, fractured palette into fluttering arrythmias of dust, percussion, and yearning. He composed all 10 vaporous, lo-fi tracks during the first wave of lockdowns in New York, and the pieces took shape patiently from samples of piano, texture, and domestic sounds (sink splashing, room tone, clinking objects), filtered through live effects to imbue them with “an intuitive, immaterial feel,” we’re told.
“Wisps of melody splinter, shimmer, and refract, like light on water; pulses accrue and dissipate, as if mapping shifting sands. Throughout, there’s a sense of matter made animate, of absences felt,” Kranky says. “This is music for night skies in hollowed out cities, for views across rivers towards unknown shores: restless, placeless, and profound.”
In 2019, Long released Grass and Trees on Kranky, which followed 2017’s An Act of Love.
Tracklisting
01. Shiny Nowhere
02. Stolen Time
03. Felt Absence
04. Oblique Ruins
05. Snowy Water
06. Rough Air
07. Slate Horizon
08. Ochre Sky
09. Fossil Painting
10. Deep Sky
Ghost Poems LP is scheduled for March 18 on Kranky. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream “Rough Air” in full below.
