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Watery Grave

by Nicholas Naioti

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A Side 19:42
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B Side 20:06
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Warm Gospel 60

In his year-end essay for Tiny Mix Tapes entitled “2017 Passive Aggressive: The Ambient Noise of the Present”, Will Neibergall states that:

“While ambient music is irrevocably tied to an inward approach to healing, it is not made available without some image of the world and without the baggage of the noise that fills that world and transforms the ways we make sense of it.”

In his previous album, “Throw the Stone”, Nicholas Naioti explored the slow and contemplative possibilities of some of rock music’s most classic instrumentation. It was undeniably an album about age.

Like many of the other ambient-leaning releases that came out of whatever 2017 was, “Watery Grave” feels like more of a reaction to this age; exploring the context and all the emotions and moods of the year itself. The quiet moments give way to glimpses of rhythm and structure, before dispersing just as quickly back into the haze spiraling at the center of the entire album. The sparse vocal elements are less lyrical and more like standing in a canyon screaming, “Hello!” just to hear your own voice disconnected, damaged, and deflected back upon you.

That’s how so much of music felt in 2017. During a year when words seemed to mean less than ever, its music was driven less by the authority of having something to say, and instead shaped more by impression and mood. Structure and familiarity lost ground to the abstract’s ability to express the things we experience but words fall short of describing, and the once internal study of ambient music was necessarily turned outward and applied to our collective experience.

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released March 12, 2018

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"On the surface, perhaps, it’s simply great ambient music, gentle waves of sound gradually drifting into one another, anchored by percussion that tries not to draw too much attention to itself. However, you’ll soon find this music reaching from the background into the foreground, as the melodies prove to be too insistent, the guitars too plaintive, and the arrangements too clever."
-Scott Scholz, Tabs Out

Iowa Basement Tapes Broadcast 7/5/18:
kfmg.org/news/iowa-basement-tape/

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