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Searchlight Moonbeam
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Album name Searchlight Moonbeam
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Date 2023
GenreFolk
Play time 76 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 434 MB
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Searchlight Moonbeam is the new narrative compilation from Time Is Away (Jack
Rollo and Elaine Tierney) whose eponymous monthly NTS Radio shows, tinctured
fusions of fugitive sounds and reverie-inducing archival speech, have won them
an ardent following. It follows from the London-based duo’s Ballads, a
remarkable driftwerk released on A Colourful Storm in 2022.


Searchlight Moonbeam is an autumnal dreamscape, intimate and vespertine, pensive
and irresolute. An imagined community where differences drop off and resonances
emerge – between Maher Shalal Hash Baz affiliates Kasumi Trio, Taiwanese
score composer Chen Ming Chang whose ‘Rainwater’ (written for Hou
Hsiao-Hsien’s 1986 film Dust In The Wind) is exquisitely heartbroken, and
the plangent improvisations of self-taught French pianist Delphine Dora.


Revelations are frequent: the bedsit isolationism of Bo Harwood and John
Cassavetes’ ‘No One Around to Hear It’ (from The Killing of
a Chinese Bookie); the narked minimalism of Klang (an early 2000s band formed by
ex-Elastica guitarist and featuring prize-winning experimental novelist Isabel
Waidner on bass); the etude-grooves and echoic wobble of below-the-radar French
avant-gardists Omertà ; the beautiful, plaintively dubby ‘Is It
You?’ by Slapp Happy; a psych-tinged reimagining of PiL’s
‘Poptones’ by Simon Fisher Turner (one half of Deux Filles, and
here, recording for él as The King of Luxembourg) that's as perverse as the
cover of Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats.


Searchlight Moonbeam is the musical analog of an Italo Calvino novel or a
medieval fable. Associative, intuitive, borderless. Emotional and mysterious.
Endowed with the tactility of Braille. A private language that is both
unknowable and understood. It is a record of the seasons, for the seasons.

2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Time Is Away’s first broadcast.
Featuring an evocative essay by writer Jeremy Atherton Lin and disarming cover
art by Penny Davenport, Searchlight Moonbeam showcases Rollo and
Tierney’s still-unrivalled talent for gloaming melodies, disques du
crépuscule and ensorcelled storytelling. 

Tracklist:
1.01 - Bo Harwood & John Cassavetes - No One Around To Hear It (3:49)
1.02 - Cheng Minjang - Rainwater (8:10)
1.03 - Bhairavi Raman & Nanthesh Sivarajah - Bittersweet Reflections (6:31)
1.04 - The King Of Luxembourg - Poptones (3:14)
1.05 - Slapp Happy - Is It You (5:07)
1.06 - O.G. Jigg - Jesus Is My Jam (4:06)
1.07 - klang - As It Is (4:27)
1.08 - Scala - Fuser (4:54)
1.09 - Soft Location - Let The Moon Get Into It (6:29)
1.10 - Gyeongsu feat. Croche - YZOBEL (3:04)
1.11 - Omertà - Moments In Love (7:12)
1.12 - Kasumi Trio - Cabbage Butterfly (5:36)
1.13 - un - Fast Money Blues (8:14)
1.14 - Delphine Dora - V (3:08)
1.15 - Harry Plunket-Greene - The Hurdy-Gurdy Man (2:45)

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