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Greg Davis, who
graduated in jazz guitar and classical composition,
also a former DJ and hip-hop producer,
is a Chicago-based avantgarde composer who debuted with the single
Clouds As Edges (Grounded, 2001) in the role of a
laptop folk artist.
Arbor (Carpark, 2002) and
Curling Pond Woods (Carpark, 2003)
developed his highly original aesthetic of fragile ambient structures that
borrow elements from both dance and folk music.
Their "songs" mix field recordings,
acoustic guitar and folkish rhythms.
Somnia
(Kranky, 2004) compiles six droning compositions,
recorded over several years, for solo instrument
(bowed psaltery, acoustic guitar, harmonica, electronic keyboards and organ)
filtered through a computer, where
music and painting converge and become one. Starting
with Archer, a thick resonating mantra, and
peaking with Clouds As Edges, a humbler cosmic
exploration with the drone repeating the same pattern
but continuously shifting timbre (accordion, flute,
organ, etc), the album abandons Davis' original
folktronica and delves into pure ambient digital
music. The range of styles is broad, from the shrill
protracted dissonance of Diaphanous to the
warped hallucinated tones of Mirage. The
20-minute Campestral is the most static track
and almost mournful, thus the most similar to Brian
Eno's "discrete music".
Mutually Arising (Kranky, 2009) offers two more pieces for synthesizer,
as minimalist as before, but a bit more poignant.
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