a quiet end

Feist - The Bad in Each Other

Great video; one of the favourite songs from one of the favourite albums of 2011.

Past Fragments is now available to stream over at CBC Radio 3 & along with the EP, can now be found on Last.fm as well.

The Past Fragments EP is a collection of semi-improvised minimal piano works. Tiny pieces that were conceived around loose melodic ideas or vague notions of ‘character’ and then captured immediately as they were written with little attention paid to production or perfection, in some cases fully extemporized as they were laid down. Recorded over the course of a few days, they imbibed the essence of the moments they emerged from, and are presented here - lo-fi and sparkling - with all of their inherent fragility, ephemera and imperfections intact.

Download it here.

winter music: ‘past fragments’ now available as a free download

Past Fragments is old music. Something not forgotten, but placed somewhere for a perpetual later that took some time to come.

It is not a collection of songs more than captured moments, simple yet immediate like many moments are, removed from the mental rigors of non-spontaneous creation.

It’s not so much looking forward as it is peering back.

Listen to & download it here.

Enjoy.

Blooming in the Dark by A Quiet End

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little update

After some news-less months around here, and feeling somewhat silly for prematurely announcing the ‘Past Fragments’ EP impending release, I’m happy to say it’s still on it’s way. The music’s all there, the fall just wasn’t the right time for it’s appearance. 

There’s some other new songs coming, though they’re still ways off yet, ground has been broken and they should emerge sometime in the first quarter, or third, of 2012.

The self-titled EP that was released last March is still available for free and can be found here. For more regular occasional little bytes and things, head on over to twitter.

I Break Horses - Winter Beats

Gorgeous video. & from a great album too.

There’s been a slight delay in the Past Fragments EP release, but the music is done and it should be out very soon…

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molting over

Wishing so much that we had done something better sometimes that occasionally we wondered our silent moments further and further away. And then end up waiting, lost in sight of the all-together smug and smiling face of what once was, and what still may be. Those glorious other places are always just that: other places. Ones that shine maybe more, maybe slightly brighter than we are able to now. Someone else might remember those days. Moments when I might have known better but didn’t. There are danker days I could live in, just holding on. Or I could love the better ones, those that resonate further and deeper than my formerly small efforts at joy ever could. Those stomping colours that weren’t just neon and gold, they loved me back. Those moments seemed glorious, and we might be glorious still. Those days, the ones that make me think of when I was a child, and I can remember the possibility seemed dashing enough; that for one split second, I might forget all my betrayals and launch myself into the sky.  

Molting Over by A Quiet End

A slight delay, but look for the the full release of these semi-improvised piano works in a small collection sometime in the first part of September. 

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Bon Iver - Holocene

would love to visit someday…

whale bones

Grey dreaming on an windy coast. The sky pulls against itself, clouds creating small vortex’s for as far as can be seen, shifting and churning in counterpoint with the crashing waves. They stretch out tall and long, like the ocean’s own thoughts…but they are not like mine, which always crash back to earth. Plummeting soundlessly and lying in heaps upon an empty beach.

The first track from a forthcoming small collection of semi-improvised piano works. They were conceived loosely as concepts set in a particular key, rhythm, tonal structure or quality, and in some cases just a ‘feeling’, then recorded immediately with little preparation.  

The recordings predate the EP, but have never been released. They are being given slight gloss up and a rearranged running order. It looks like there’ll be at least six pieces included of an original thirteen, possibly more, enough to make up another tiny EP which should be available some time over the next couple of weeks.  

Whale Bones by A Quiet End

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the EP is now free!

Hi everyone,

The ‘A Quiet End’ EP that was released a few months back is now free.

Get it here.

More soon…