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Symphony of a Radical

by The Corrupting Sea

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    This is the third album in the 2017 The Corrupting Sea trilogy of albums. Sparse and desolate, this ambient piece reflects Jason T. Lamoreaux's experiences over the course of a very terrible year.

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Wake Sleep 04:33
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The Refuge 08:02
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Exit 12:11

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A sparse soundscape about the worst year in my life.

The Corrupting Sea is the ambient project of Jason Lamoreaux. Symphony of a Radical is the conclusion to a trilogy of albums which have been released throughout 2017 under his The Corrupting Sea moniker. An exercise in minimalism. Symphony of a Radical is the sonic story of Lamoreaux’s worst year in his life to date. Each track explores sparse soundscapes moving from guitars, to bass, to midi as mediums of aural storytelling. Of the trilogy, this was Lamoreaux’s first album recorded and its release has been a longtime coming. Clocking in at over an hour, the album is fraught with moments of darkness and despair but not without an underlying hope. Symphony of a Radical was recorded, mixed, and mastered in Lamoreaux’s home office or what he has dubbed Somewherecold Studios. Entirely DIY, like the albums that came before it, he hopes listeners will take an empathetic sonic journey with him. Symphony of a Radical is being released on very limited (50 copies) compact disc and in digital format.

"Again, another release deserving of a quiet spot with which to appreciate its close fractured atmospheric beauty. Just out via somewhere cold records, the final instalment of a trilogy of releases by the Corrupting Sea sees a limited issue of ‘symphony of a radical’ – a set which even by its authors own description is ‘fraught with moments of darkness and despair but not without an underlying hope’. Hell’s teeth he was kidding, for here beneath the growling sigh of overcasting clouds, there’s a bleakening beauty that’s framed and poised here, the familiar tropes expressed on both ‘Samatta’ and ‘Resist’ are still in attendance, all finitely scalped in a sparse majesty that weaves and veers to a hypnotic palette appreciably schooled in the ways of a youthful Kranky back catalogue and the late 80’s New Zealand noise scene, in fact if we didn’t know better we’d have surmised that ‘may I speak frankly? Fuck off good Sir!’ was a prime career forgotten Godspeed salvo featuring a guest appearance by Bruce Russell. It’s not so much that ‘symphony of a radical’ is, as the author puts it, dark and despairing’, rather more it’s thoughtful, reflective and remote, the salty burn from the oceanic opine of ‘plague of golden locusts’ and ‘intro’ being two prime examples, the former adrift and lost in the moment draws parallels to the sonic work board of Flying Saucer Attack, a solemn seafaring ghost light with the former tonally wrestled in the merest of minimalist flashings, its noir murmurings forging an acute kinship with both Yellow6 and Gnac (the effect is revisited and explored again in a more cinematic reading on ‘the refuge’). Elsewhere, there’s something touchingly hymnal and reverential about ‘my head is full of facts and dangerous’, its quietly statuesque and shy like drift scaped harmonic song radiating like search light sirens through the dense thick fog. Similarly ghosted in celestial shimmer tones, the mellowing passing apparition like ‘wake sleep’ is tenderly sculptured and subdued in snow frosted ethereal haloes, which leaves the epic 12 minute ‘the exit’ to steer matters towards the end groove though not before ominously fixing you with its dead eyed stare whilst culturing a bruised and damaged slice of spy noir solace which into the bargain crafts something of a masterclass in the execution and delivery of poise, atmosphere and stilled, albeit fractured, elegance. "

~ Mark Barton, The Sunday Experience
marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/the-corrupting-sea-9/

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released September 1, 2017

The Corrupting Sea is Jason T. Lamoreaux
Guitar, Bass, Midi: Jason T. Lamoreaux
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Somewherecold Studios
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Art Design and Layout by Paul Lews
Photography by Jason T. Lamoreaux

Somewherecold Records, 2017
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The Corrupting Sea Shelbyville, Kentucky

The Corrupting Sea is the ambient project of Jason T. Lamoreaux. An expression of feelings and very personal experiences, the ambient moods generated through Jason's work are expressions of real life stories and moments.

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