Loren Chasse
Aclod
Aclod is the first fruit of the telekinetic long distance collaboration between Juho Toivonen and Loren Chasse. The artists shared environmental recordings from Coyote Wall, Washington and Pori, Finland to create music for an implied landscape that is located neither here nor there. Toivonen and Chasse began working together in 2021 after Toivonen reissued Chasse`s seminal field-recording based album “Synthesis Of Neglected Places” on his label Akti. Working on the reissue, the artists noticed t…
Characters at the water margin
These recordings were made at the edge of Washington state's Olympic Rainforest, where the Hoh River meets the Pacific Ocean. The point of entry to this landscape, named Oil City on the map, is no more than a place where the road widens before coming to an end at a trailhead. Just north of the road, through the trees, and on the homestead of the late Captain Hank who one day disappeared at sea, is the ghost of an oil rig and some comings and goings along a plank road. Early 20th century settlers…
script lichen
Packaged in a round petri case with a sponge and a piece of lichen Limited numbered edition of 250 copies Includes 10-page accordion-fold insert with details of the release and series"There's no better way to visually represent the music of Jewelled Antler's Loren Chasse than with the various bits and fragments of nature's detritus, stones, pebbles, sticks, leaves, branches, dust and dirt. This newest release from Chasse goes a step further, encapsulating the disc itself (a little 3" cd) along w…
The footpath
"Here, sounds move like rolling a coin along the ground on its edge - simple, gentle, yet full of wonder... Music at its most tactile nature, quietly rubbing dirt clods in your hands until dust... Drift, a whole lot of drift, of small crackling presences, clear wind, field recordings of unknown activities, and tones again but this time more present - more music, and then a feeling like sagebrush rolling in wind, desolate, and then the tones return, and there are all these moments when desolate b…
The air in the sand
Loren Chasse is a member of the Jewelled Antler Collective, and his solo work on The Air in The Sand is nothing short of extraordinary. Via a series of sweeping atmospheres, and brooding at times almost melodic deep tones, Chasse edits together densely layered field recordings to conjure up nostalgic feelings of a windswept oceans and cold barren beaches without ever explicitly referencing either. With shifting, gradually building drones and white noise arranged carefully in swells between cicad…