Vancouver BC-based musician and electronic music composer Scott Morgan‘s project loscil will release the Sea Island LP on November 17th via Kranky. Morgan first contacted the Chicago label back in 2001 when he sent them the demo that would go on to become his debut LP, Triple Point. Initially inspired by a physics textbook and the desire to translate the abstract formulas of science into musical compositions, loscil’s ambient and serene sonics have always simmered and bubbled with an organic pulse.
Sea Island will be the follow-up to 2012’s gorgeous and salubrious LP release, Sketches From New Brighton, and this week the artist has made the album’s first single, “ahull“, available for download via Soundcloud. The track, which opens the new record, begins with a foggy, vibrating tone that pans between the speakers, with the vaguest ripple of bass beating in time gently below the surface. This watery, wavey matrix of sound eventually becomes a beautifully bowled container for whispers of meditative vibraphone melody, refracting gently among the oscillating tones, before everything is finally subsumed by the quiet, sub aquatic undertow of humming bass!
