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Tonal Glints

by James A. McDermid

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The vagabond 01:29
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Bunny 00:46
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Within reach 03:16
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Eastern Bloc 03:21
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Last year 00:58
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about

Label: Krysalisound
Cat: KS025
Released: 18th February 2018
Mastering: Francis M. Gri

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All tracks are the work of James Alexander McDermid | Recorded in Portugal and England, 2016-2017

Mastered by Francis M. Gri at KrysaliSound | originally released on CD and DL through KrysaliSound

Dedicated to my sister, Harriet (1975-2016)

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released February 27, 2018

REVIEWS:

"...an exciting set of deep and holistic musical graduals that are easy to follow and brilliant to digest, swimming their way to spiritual execution"

- Fluid Radio (April 2018)

"This is music about getting up in the afternoon when one had planned to get up in the morning, but staying the course long enough to get one little thing done. It’s music that whispers at a bedside so as not to disturb a loved one’s sleep"

- A Closer Listen (March 2018)

"A whirlwind of heavy emotions like lead translated into cathartic sound sculptures"

- So What (March 2018)

"...this is a splendid album, a very emotional one too. I'm certain that all of these tracks will appear in my day-to-day playlist from now on, along with their predecessors on 'Ghost Folk'. Some of these songs will probably function as inspiration again as they are perfect mood setters. So yes, this album comes highly recommended to all ambient aficionados out there"

- Merchants of Air (February 2018)

"Combining instruments of various kinds, occasional noises and mottled environmental oscillations traversed by distant spectral voices, McDermid draws glimpses of an imaginative symphony, which through a tormented introspection reaches a transcendent electro-acoustic elevation"

- Music Will Not Save You (February 2018)

"James A. McDermid moves beyond the classical boundaries of atmospheric electronic music to lap gothic-dark moments; from the most depressed folk to a post-rock Labradford style"

- Ondarock (March 2018)

"You get the feeling of McDermid’s sisters passing in the music. The album is quite moody, at times dark and at other times shrouded and buried. It’s not totally in despair, but you get the feeling that the artist is coming through the other side, such is the balance of light and dark that is either included in the same track or on different tracks. If you like music that plays with colour and shade, Tonal Glints' may be for you"

- Drifting, Almost Falling (August 2018)

"James A. McDermid goes for glowing realms with the soothing ambient washes of “Tonal Glints”. Infused with tremendous melodies, McDermid balances between the real and the imagined. Done with the utmost of grace everything about these pieces teems with such life. Hope radiates out of these small suites, while McDermid employs a series of tactile sounds into the mix ensuring that everything feels living and breathing"

- Beach Sloth (March 2018)

"James A. McDermid looks at his sister’s life through the rear-view mirror of the bereft in a sonification of turmoil via chilly saturations, shadow frequencies, harmonic fragments and faint vocal traces"

- Igloo Magazine (April 2018)

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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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