* LP Edition
Balmorhea’s previous album All is Wild, All is Silent explored the freedom and isolation of settlers learning to live on an untamed frontier. It was an intensely physical album, dealing with the struggles of man on earth. By contrast, their new album Constellations shifts our focus to the cosmos and beyond, meditating solemnly [...]
Description (English):
Daughter of a forest ranger and town kindergarten teacher, Laura Gibson’s root runs deep in the small coastal logging town of Coquille, Oregon. An outsider to the burgeoning Portland music scene, Gibson’s early choice of venues (an AIDS hospice here, a kindergarten class there) and complete lack of music scene knowledge (she listens to [...]
Written in the snow solitude of the woods–its subject imagines an awakening and an evolution through human spiritedness, the raw choosing of life in the face of wonders, terribleand sublime, dreamed and actual. Traversing wildernesses, imaginary and tactile, mystical and cinematic, a transformation occurs from star matter to actual human heart. This deluxe edition CD [...]