Sam Rosenthal & Nick Shadow - The Gesture Of History (CD)

Release Date: 08/30/19

Introspective organic texture & emotions of the viola play out over an ambient atmosphere of engulfing mournful beauty.

Viola-based textural ambient drift from Sam of Black Tape For A Blue Girl with Shadow’s viola, and synths/enhancements from Steve Roach.

The Gesture of Historydraws upon introspective passages where the organic texture and emotions of the viola play out over an atmosphere of engulfing mournful beauty. Delicate strings float upon shimmering, forever changing expressionistic backgrounds of processed viola, synth, and harmonium – profoundly sensitive and deeply moving. The modernist ambient compositions balance on the precipice looking back in moments of reflection and rumination while delicately holding the future in our hands.

Expose Magazine“Haunting, beautiful and dreamlike ...a shimmering panoramic soundfield, with Shadow’s viola being the only immediately recognizable instrument, enveloped in warm synth textures, occasionally rising up through the fabric to provide colorful dreamy melodics and intense highlights.”

CD in 6-panel digipak.