Wake, by Location Services & Derek Hunter Wilson

Wake

by Location Services & Derek Hunter Wilson

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140g limited edition vinyl LP.

Each digital copy of the album includes two bonus tracks: a rework of 'Delicate Need' by Starlight Assembly and 'Interdependence In Solitude', taken from the Points Of No Return compilation (released on Beacon Sound in 2020).

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1.	Photo Aware 03:40	buy track
2.	Zeroed Out 04:16	buy track
3.	Solitary Diffusion 04:16	buy track
4.	If I Were You 05:01	buy track
5.	Strand 05:07	buy track
6.	Delicate Need 04:52	buy track
7.	Incandescent 04:48	buy track
8.	Wake 06:30	buy track

about

'Wake' is a distillation and reflection of the work of three Portland musicians thrown, like the rest of the world, into forced isolation by the continually-mutating curse of a natural world in disequilibrium. The product of involuntarily inward-looking emotional landscapes, Wake emerged sounding surprisingly expansive and confident. The trio uses a variety of instruments –including harp, fretless bass, piano, and a variety of synthesizers– to conjure sparkling panoramas of the imagination that are deep-pooled and impressionistic, bracing yet meditative.

Mike Grabarek and Joshua Ward have performed together for years as a duo under the moniker of Location Services, while Derek Hunter Wilson has primarily worked as a solo composer in the classical realm. For the 'Points Of No Return' compilation, Beacon Sound's 50th release and a benefit for the Beirut Musicians Fund, they recorded a collaborative piece entitled 'Interdependence In Solitude' (included here as a bonus track with each digital copy) that was so promising the label offered to release an album if they continued down the path they had started upon. The resulting eight songs are a mesmerizing, sometimes-intense voyage.

Made during a period of change and upheaval in the world and society when most people were disconnected from each other, 'Wake' is the product of a collage-like dialogue built on trust and patience. While the three musicians couldn’t physically be together for much of this time, they began sending musical ideas to one another in a conversational back-and-forth that acted as an anchor of stability – something they found they could turn to and depend on when things felt uncertain elsewhere. This comfort zone led to some transcendent moments of experimentation. 'Delicate Need', for example, features recordings of exaggerated pizzicato that were sampled and then run back through processing effects, which were then subsequently performed live over the original track. As things became less risky on the Covid front, they would occasionally meet for backyard rehearsals. Indeed, a recording of one of these rehearsals became the basis for the opening track and first single 'Photo Aware'.

“transcendent lullabies...‘Wake‘ swims in elegiac seas where the sonic landscape sings with an alluring yet subtle force“ – Foxy Digitalis

credits

released August 26, 2022

Derek Hunter Wilson - piano, rhodes, synthesizers, viola, cello
Mike Grabarek - synthesizers, bass clarinet, ebowed fretless bass, editing
Joshua Ward - harp, processing

Recorded in Portland 2020-2021

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri

Design by Studio Bernhardt
Cover painting by Nate Ethington

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Location Services is the Portland-based project of multi-instrumentalist Mike Grabarek (Magic Fades) and harpist Joshua Ward. They’ve released music on Beacon Sound and Beer On The Rug. They perform both written and improvised music.

Derek Hunter Wilson is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Portland. He has released two solo albums on Beacon Sound (Travelogue, 2017; Steel, Wood, & Air, 2019) and has also collaborated with visual artist Gregory Euclide for his Thesis Project label, resulting in a split 10" with Spanish musician Rauelsson. He has additionally collaborated with poets Zachary Schomburg and Brandi Katherine Herrera for several sound and performance pieces. He has performed live on the West Coast and in Berlin, sharing the stage with artists such as Colleen, Amulets, and Liima.

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