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Bloom

by Ethan Marks

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“There is a world alongside ours – vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us.” – Richard Powers, “The Overstory"

“Bloom” picks up the scent trail left by my previous release, “dune.” Its influence is primarily three candles by Uncle Ron’s Candle Company (Smudge, Earth, and Bloom) whose components comprise sage, lavender, grass, bergamot, violet, orange blossom, jasmine, and woods sandal and cedar. I burned these candles in every possible combination from February—April, not only while recording and editing these tracks but also while reading the above-quoted book. My nose and imagination were filled with the smells and liminal intricacies of trees, and the result is the “Bloom” suite, a series of processed trumpet improvisations whose structure attempts to describe that of the forest.

“Singing together of the flesh of bodies,” is an improvisation made entirely of layered samples from Rachel Beetz’s “Experimental Flute Soundpack Vol. 1.” The title is something an alien mushroom creature “said” in Arkady Martine’s “A Desolation Called Peace.”

The final track, “Biome,” is a processed field recording of my neighborhood in the afternoon on Monday, March 29th. Featured prominently is the ice cream truck that plagues my neighborhood most afternoons and every evening. It became the soundtrack to my quarantine, marking the passing of the days with the toll of its bell.

Smell ya later,
Ethan

credits

released June 4, 2021

Flute samples by Rachel Beetz (IG: @rachelbeetz) (track 1)
Trumpet performed by Ethan Marks (tracks 2—6)
Neighborhood sounds by Westlake, Los Angeles (track 7)

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Ethan Marks

Album art by Chelsea Rae (IG: @chelsearae.photo)

Candles from Uncle Ron’s Candle Company (IG: @uncleronscandles)

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Ethan Marks Los Angeles, California

Ethan Marks is an experimental trumpet player and producer in LA. He is interested in the collision between body and instrument, the instrument-as-interface, and the physical manifestations of sound. His work is usually improvised, is sometimes silly, and has involved sundry preparations like feedback, video, noise, household objects, power tools, and plundered recordings. ... more

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