Biota - Fragment For Balance [CD]

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After 4 years of work on their 11th release for ReR, this extraordinary, reclusive, and highly individual audio-visual collective continues to evolve through the painstaking accumulation and disposition of a seemingly incompatible range of both exotic and familiar musical languages, instruments, techniques and studio manipulations into one of the few genuinely original bands at work today. It took a long time to refine their unique process of composition to this level of ambiguity and depth and newcomers will wonder how they strayed so far from orthodoxy and yet managed to retain a lucidity and transparency that is quite rare in contemporary music. Timeless, almost weightless - yet teeming with life, motion and complexity - this is a music that suggests an untroubled world in which nostalgia, tragedy and agon, while rudely present, remain subservient to deeper, calmer currents. Sic transit gloria mundi. The bullet points are that Biota is a unique project, defying genre with, like all such cult artists, a small but extremely dedicated public that, over the last 15 years has grown continuously as new listeners discover them. BIOTA Founded in Colorado in the late 1970s, Biota's first recordings were released under the name of the Mnemonist Orchestra who, between 1980 and 1984, released five albums on its own label, before linking up with ReR in 1984. That was also the year in which they split into an independent visual arts collective - retaining the Mnemonist name - and the recording project, Biota. Since then, their releases have presented the work of both groups in tandemEither Without The Other
Telling
Separate Chance
Kirree/Fishing Song
The Flandyke Shore
Key Ring
Other Thing Lake
On A Level Place
Balancer
Rivers Apart
Desperate Times
Unspun
Cast Out For Light
Compass Well
Walking Is Missing
Whirl Quarter Moon
Halflight
Sender Vine
To Brigg Fair
Corner Shade
Earlier An Encounter
Rabbit In The Rain
Cloud Pale
Remember Even Though
Lost While Found
On Laurels