{"product_id":"snow-palms-origin-and-echo","title":"Snow Palms Origin and Echo","description":"David Sheppard first conceived Snow Palms as a vehicle for music played\r\non mallet instruments (metallophones, glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas,\r\netc), devices that have featured intermittently across almost two decades-worth\r\nof the multi-instrumentalists miscellaneous collaborative projects that\r\ninclude State River Widening, Ellis Island Sound, The Wisdom of Harry and\r\nPhelan-Sheppard, among a host of others.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSnow Palms 2012 debut album Intervals won a sheaf of approving notices\r\nfor its ineffably cinematic blend of polyrhythmic percussion and richly melodic\r\norchestration, partly achieved in collaboration with arranger-composer\r\nChristopher Leary (aka Ochre). Two years in the making, the follow-up builds on\r\nthe foundations of its predecessor, with a heavy quotient of metallophones,\r\nglockenspiels and marimbas at its core, but largely eschews the latters\r\nchamber arrangements in favour of soaring synth-scapes and a palette of\r\nspectral ambient and electronic textures.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDespite that, Origin and Echo is a more performative record than was\r\nIntervals, its eleven organic, kinetic pieces meticulously constructed by\r\nSheppard from initial percussive skeletons largely essayed instinctively, in\r\nfree time, without click-tracks and with almost no guitar. The album is loosely\r\npredicated on themes of mirroring and rebounding, whether physical or\r\nmetaphorical, inspired by everything from the gravity-defying parabolas of\r\nspace flight to patterns of human migration and feelings of dÈj‡ vu summoned by\r\nnostalgic journeys.  \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe results are, by turns, hypnotic (the dreamy, tensile White\r\nShadows), symphonic (the ever-spiralling, near-anthemic Circling),\r\npropulsive (the inexorably escalating Rite), immersive (the harp-caressed\r\ntintabulations of You Are Here) and poignant (Vostoks aching cosmic synth\r\nevocations, the mysterioso soundtrack undulations of Black Snow\u0026amp;). Along the\r\nway, there are nods to the film scores of Thomas Newman, the minimal\r\nelectronics of Simon Fisher-Turner, John Luther Adams vibraphone-based chamber\r\npiece In a Treeless Place, Only Snow, and several works by Japanese\r\ncomposers, especially those of Shimizu Yasuaki, Midori Takada and Ryuichi\r\nSakamoto.  \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhile the album is mostly the work of David Sheppard working alone or in\r\ntandem with producer Giles Barrett, it also features cameos from previous Snow\r\nPalms collaborator Christopher Leary (synthesisers), alongside Emma Winston\r\n(Omnichord), Lauri Wuolio (cupola drum) and Village Green label-mate AngËle\r\nDavid-Guillou (keyboards). It arrives two years after Sheppards last major\r\nrelease, his debut solo album, 2015s Vertical Land, which attracted some of\r\nthe best reviews of his career (An immersive journey into rhythmic motion and\r\nvibrant, transportive texture, said MOJO; More entrancing than anything he's\r\nrecorded to date, opined Uncut).\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JITRE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 11\/17\/17\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Dance \u0026amp; Electronic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Snow Palms","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48989018390817,"sku":"0AY3SF-JMZ2-5V","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/5099\/0625\/files\/snow-palms-origin-and-echo_ozjIU.jpg?v=1742473677","url":"https:\/\/birds-nest-records.myshopify.com\/products\/snow-palms-origin-and-echo","provider":"Bird's Nest Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}