Yellow6 - Painted Sky
[Resonant]

'Painted Sky' echoes the sound which identifies many releases on Resonant, a small label that has come to represent spacious organic acoustic pieces. Calm endless tracts of manipulated sound and recordings drift from one shore to the next, always with the frayed edges left in, the scratch of guitars, the static caught on the microphones, all this adds to the landscapes evoked by the sigh of melancholy arrangements devoid of human presence.

Yellow6 (Jon Attwood) draws close to label mates Library Tapes, but 'Painted Sky' carries a fuller structure, finding itself without the disjointed uncomfortable snippets of sound and deluge of crackles and hisses. The tracks here consist of bare guitar, pushed through slight distortions, backed by simple unassuming percussion and a subtle static whirr of muted but sharp electric guitar in breakdown.

Tracks are distinguishable in the way the sounds are captured, the way the mic hears the guitar or the drums. The different elements float in and out of the mix, a solitary note picked out grows into a chord, and a track blooms quietly like plants in stop frame, from the barest of organic beginnings.

Painted Sky Track Listing:

01. I Know I Shouldn't (But I Do)
02. I Loved You More Before I Knew You Loved Me
03. Common
04. NYE 2
05. Realisation
06. Pleasure/Pain
07. Eighteen Days
08. Requiem For Julian
09. Mare
10. Azure