In The Wire's best of 2014.
Rhodri Davies
An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance
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Stunning!! Davies settles obsessively on tumbling phrases, arpeggios and articulate rhythms, turning them over and over, letting them develop only within strict limits, as though this fine, prolific and adventurous musician is freshly discovering a harp that has been there all along.' Julian Cowley, Wire Magazine, October 2014. Limited edition of 500 of which 250 are only available in the Rhodri Davies 'Pedwar' 4 LP box. Pressed on 180gm vinyl and housed in a hand screenprinted sleeve with custom artwork by jean luc guionnet. Includes insert essay by David Toop.
Rhodri Davies is not a unique artist and musician, but he's pretty close. Just like Okkyung Lee with the cello and John Butcher on the saxophone, Welsh harpist Davies totally deconstructs, reimagines and explores his instrument, at times to the point of making it utterly unrecognisable.
Format
Limited to 250 copies, Pressed on 180gm vinyl and housed in a hand screenprinted sleeve with custom artwork by jean luc guionnet
Release notes
Ltd edition of 500 of which 250 are only available in the Rhodri Davies 'Pedwar' 4 LP box (av058x). Pressed on 180gm vinyl and housed in a hand screen-printed sleeve with custom artwork by Jean Luc Guionnet. Includes insert essay by David Toop.
| A1 | Soaked Ruins Of A Raft | 2:38 | |
| A2 | In Distortion-Free Mirrors | 3:00 | |
| A3 | The Rule Was Corroborated In Non-Ordinary Reality | 3:02 | |
| A4 | Each Clear And Sudden Drop Is Itself | 3:56 | |
| A5 | Recapitulation Of | 1:12 | |
| A6 | Making Anything Perishable That Can Die | 1:46 | |
| A7 | Continues, Placement | 3:25 | |
| B1 | Fingers Pluck Played On By | 1:50 | |
| B2 | A Cut Circle Orbit Becoming A Virtual Universe | 3:40 | |
| B3 | The End Of Now | 2:18 | |
| B4 | Outward Radiating Against | 2:14 | |
| B5 | Each Annulling The Next... | 3:14 | |
| B6 | Wet Thru Mines Stone | 2:32 | |
| B7 | On The Outer Reach Of The Unending | 4:52 |
- Sam Grant
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