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Chamber Music for the Dead

by The Corrupting Sea

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The Corrupting Sea's newest album, "Chamber Music for the Dead", will be out 7/30/2021. It is a soundtrack for an imagined film in the listener's head. Battle cries, snowy plains, tender moments, and so much more are evoked by the movements throughout the pieces.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Cold Star: An Homage to Vangelis, Float, Lungs Like Lead, The U.S. Will Eat You, Talking to Trees, For Simplicity's Sake, Recovery... for Matthew Richter, Chamber Music for the Dead, and 25 more. , and , .

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Chamber 1 19:09
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Chamber 2 20:08

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A soundtrack to a movie in your imagination.

"A soundtrack fit for these challenging times, Somewherecold label boss and electronic music explorer in his own right, Jason T. Lamoreaux once more sails The Corrupting Sea alias as he crafts a moiety of pandemic inspired industrial-ambient-trance chamber suites.

The Shelbyville, Kentucky-based artist navigates the miasma, anxieties and sense of helplessness on the fateful bell tolled Chamber Music For The Dead album. Yet though this timely ill-wind of feudal electronica and highly atmospheric uncertainty fits in perfectly with the dread and drag of the Covid pandemic, the album is both a distillation of six years worth of mixed emotions (both disconnected and deeply personal ones) and a concept plague story set against the backdrop of a ‘tin-pot dictator’ controlled society (plenty of challengers to that title). In practice this sounds like the last broadcasts, the last sense of hope, recorded under ominous vapours and wisps, and the chilled hand of death.

Relief from an icy lament and the funeral service choral synthesized voice waves arrives in the shape of ether-penetrated passages of cloud gazing and with cathedral expansive breathing spaces.

A balance is struck between the foreboding and the lighter periods of reflection, release and airy escapist hope on a soundtrack of plague-riven doom."

~Dominic Valvona
monolithcocktail.com/2021/07/05/perusal-16-chris-sharkey-manzanita-y-su-conjunto-jason-nazary-passepartout-duo-raf-and-o-karen-zanes/

"Jason Lamoreaux, the owner of label Somewherecold Records, has been promoting absorbing and transporting ambient, shoegaze, dreampop, and experimental music for some time now.

He’s been an enthusiastic champion of outfits that include Tombstones In Their Eyes, Outward, Sky is Alright, Jeremy Bastard (of NYC’s Autodrone), Vicious Blossom, A Journey of Giraffes, Your Gaze, Yellow6, The Beremy Jets, The Microdance, Ummagma, Backwards Charm, and so many more artists.

Now it’s time to shine a light on Lamoreaux’s own music as The Corrupting Sea, a deeply personal entity that is a mirror of his feelings/outlook at the time of recording his compositions.

Ambient in nature, with a cyclic flow that moves from darkness to light and back again, Lamoreaux’s work is very specific to the tumultuous times that he – and we – are immersed in.

His experiences are personal, but also universal. Who hasn’t been anxious and/or depressed and besieged by the trials of life? Sometimes it feels like that black cloud will never lift, or that yawning abyss will never disappear…

But it’s through the power of music, a therapeutic art form both in its creation and in listening to it, that we can communicate and connect and know that we are not alone in how we feel.

As The Corrupting Sea, Lamoreaux recently released the 2-part album Chamber Music for the Dead. “Chamber 1” and “Chamber 2” each runs about 20 minutes and emanates a mystery of the unknown.

“Chamber 1” solemnly marches ahead with elongated synth notes, ominous percussive elements, and a hard-struck beat.

At times a twilight calm perseveres, but there is still a cord of tension that runs through the number.

This first part is a sounding of the depths, while “Chamber 2” slowly moves further into the endless night, with subtle low-register sounds of the underground creeping by.

Scouring noise comes and goes, as does flickering of extended synth waves, and the occasional percussive crackle.

There is still life, however, bubbling under the surface of “Chamber 2,” as near its end there’s suddenly a smattering of crisp percussion forming an active beat…"

~Jen Dan
stereoembersmagazine.com/somewherecold-records-owner-releases-new-music-as-the-corrupting-sea/

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released June 18, 2021

The Corrupting Sea is Jason T. Lamoreaux
Mixed and Mastered by Jason T. Lamoreaux
Artwork by Sonic Wave Photography

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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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