In Little Swallows, by James A. McDermid

In Little Swallows

by James A. McDermid

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Ryan An album that pulls you in and keeps calling you back. I discover and appreciate something new with every listen. A beautiful, fragile, vulnerable work of art.

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	1.	A Sleeping Love 01:23
	2.	Pulling Yellow (vocals: Sarah Badr) 05:29
	3.	Pines, A Line 04:13
	4.	Sere (vocals: Rosalina Teche) 05:05
	5.	Desiring Still (words: Maiya Hershey) 02:49
	6.	Whistling Cardinal Winds 02:26
	7.	Hesitating Bears 03:21
	8.	Horizon Lines 03:11
	9.	All Letters Dry With Time 15:40
	10.	A Soaking Subtle Sea 01:39

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About the album:

'In Little Swallows' is about a train journey; the same journey I had to make each and every day for 2 years. This was over 10 years ago and a time where some things in my life were out of sync with where I wanted to be. I was stuck. Revisiting these memories and the feelings I recall is what allowed me to write this album.

This album is dedicated to Inês

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released February 20, 2019

All tracks are the work of James Alexander McDermid | Mastered by Francis M. Gri @ KrysaliSound

Track titles and album artwork is courtesy of Tom Meluch/Benoît Pioulard

Vocals on track 2 by Sarah Badr; vocals on track 5 & 11 by Maiya Hershey. Track 4 originally appeared on the Polar Seas Compilation, 'A Light, A Glimmer' (PSR 34)

Thanks to Paul for initially releasing this on his label, Shimmering Moods, in February 2019

Reviews:

"...like a mix of Tangerine Dream and “SAW” era Aphex Twin - the sheer ripping and ripening of the ambient fruit growing beneath the bowl edges of reverb are a skateboarder’s vertigo-heavy dream, if you can imagine a vertical ramp going concave. On “All Letters Dry With Time” the drone parchment is inked with a veil of rhythmic pulses, as if the ink has stopped and clotted like blood trying to repair a wound. Once again the lines of vulnerability are shown and become a guiding lotus flower that blossoms beautifully on this release"

- Fluid Radio [February 2019]

"In Little Swallows is an overwhelming work of art, continuously echoing in a thick night air. A chaotic piece of outerinnerworld beauty"

- Zenevloed [February 2019]

"'In Little Swallows' compiles a vast gallery of ghosts, which alternate between grainy loops, dense iterations, lost voices and field recordings; in order to recreate the alienation of memory conveyed by music and literary passages - conveying it in universal sensations, indelibly imprinted in recurrent memories, with dusty analog sequences"

- Music Won't Save You [February 2019]

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James A. McDermid Lisbon, Portugal

Experimental music artist

Albums on:

Polar Seas (Canada) / Shimmering Moods (Netherlands) / La Petite Chambre (Brazil) / Whitelabrecs (UK) / Krysalisound (Italy) / 1834 (Germany) / Cathedral Transmissions (England) / Herhalen (Scotland). ... more

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