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Cricket Cipher

by Air Space

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1.
An Urge to Return to the Surface 02:43
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2.
Sediment 06:11 video
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3.
Seiche 05:11
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4.
Endless 03:13
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5.
But It Passes 03:59
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6.
Open Season 06:39
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Jetty 04:28
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8.
Accumulations 03:05
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Pulses 03:15
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10.
Wide Open 06:44 video
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Air Space is the sonic dialogue between percussionist Brian Shankar Adler (Kinan Azmeh, Jane Ira Bloom) and keyboardist Mike Effenberger (fiveighthirteen). Inspired by the minimalist structures and analogue textures of artists like Brian Eno, Ólafur Arnalds, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Nils Frahm, the duo transcends boundaries, creating an atmospheric soundtrack to the somnambulist’s night in the deep woods.

Their expansive sound comes from Effenberger's analog and digital keyboards and tape delays, pitted against Adler’s genre-defying use of percussion from South America, South Asia and the sewers of Brooklyn. Blending Indian raga, post-Cageian minimalism, and lo-fi nostalgia with an occasional field recording of crickets, tiny sparks fly while the music retains a deceptively serene appearance. There is a haunting alchemy in the collision of Effenberger’s hazy, warbly approach to synthesis and Adler’s incisive rhythmic personality.

At times complementary, at times combative, and always richly musical, the duo explores site specific new music as well as the occasional unsuspecting gem from elsewhere. Effenberger says: "I have long been interested in the possibilities that come from two very different things being allowed to simply be different rather than negotiate a truce, existing alongside each other without giving up their individualities. Brian's musicality absorbs the challenge with a grace that is exciting and inspiring."

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released January 26, 2024

Brian Shankar Adler, percussion
Mike Effenberger, keyboards

Recorded on 7.8.2022
at The Noise Floor in Dover, NH

Mixed by Mike Effenberger
Mastered by Eric Klaxton
Artwork by Brian Shankar Adler

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