Last Mountain, by lisa butel and brent cross

Last Mountain

by lisa butel and brent cross

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1.	In The Hills 04:40	buy track
2.	Double Cry 04:21	buy track
3.	Vox Canon 03:40	buy track
4.	For Him From Her 07:29	buy track
5.	Fly Away 05:40	buy track
6.	Buffalo They Roam 04:22	buy track
7.	Transformer 04:07	buy track
8.	Low Tones 03:07	buy track
9.	Bells 06:29	buy track
10.	Las Grandes Olas 03:45	buy track
11.	In The Living Room 05:46	buy track

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Last Mountain features piano samples and voice. Themes are derived from our personal experiences with parental loss, the awakening of memories on the land with our family who were homesteading settlers and the implications of colonization, changing landscapes and genocide.

This album approaches this knowledge carefully and aims to reconcile past and current wrongs, and to remind us to share love with our loved ones openly while they are still here with us. The foundation tracks for this album were recorded by sampling the ambient sounds from the inside of the family piano. The piano, a colonial instrument, could represent the failed attempt by the settlers to wipe out a culture already present. Brent intentionally reduced the piano down to its’ most basic sounds and then reimagined it through sampling and processing. The recorded reverberance is the piano’s main contribution to the project.

Lisa’s vocals were improvised and recorded using only the first take. Her sound is captured by a ribbon microphone popular during the mid century that is both honest and revealing. Her stories are improvised from a theme but do not follow a song structure. Imperfection is rampant and intentional and we celebrate the recording for its’ rawness, truth and vulnerability.

Artists: Lisa Butel, Brent Cross with guests Johanna Hauser and G.Scott.

Contributions of raw sound and clarinet by Johanna Hauser.
Sonic collages created by G.Scott from studio outtakes: Track 3 - Vox Canon and Track 8 - Low Tones.

Lisa Butel and Brent Cross are sound artists living and working in Vancouver, BC, situated on the unceded and stolen traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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Interviews: www.loop.cl/content/view/2356/26/

Photo credits: Carol Sawyer (band photo) & Brent Cross (cover photo)

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released June 2, 2023

Lisa Butel and Brent Cross © Elektramusic Berlin
G.Scott sonic collage on Vox Canon and Low Tones
Johanna Hauser - clarinet

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lisa butel and brent cross Vancouver, British Columbia

Last Mountain - release on Elektramusic - Berlin. Themes of loss & acknowledgement of colonization and genocide.

David Newman from Audiobulb:

“Finessed minimal electronics and piano microsound tones dance and glitch across a soundtrack of haunting vocals and deeply layered emotion. Cross and Butel’s portray an intimate and immersive process inviting you to connect and share in their world.” ... more

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