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Trophic Asynchrony (LP, 2021)

by Adam Stafford

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Carnivore Of Lawns 03:33
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2.
Nested Octohedra 03:51
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3.
Ruptured Telecine 03:30
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4.
Million Year Emperor 05:32
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5.
For Fawn 02:44
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6.
Driver Of An Endless Latin Hearse 04:30
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7.
Threnody For February Swallows 07:39
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Thrapples Clag 04:21
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Scottish composer and filmmaker Adam Stafford returns with Trophic Asynchrony, a vivid exploration of our relationship with nature at a time of intersecting crises.

Written and recorded during lockdown, the predominantly instrumental album takes its title from the cascade of non-seasonal events due to climate change; of swallows returning in winter, of blizzards in summertime and daffodils at Christmas.

Through mutating patterns, expressive textures and Stafford's instinct for rhythmic experimentation, Trophic Asynchrony teams with life: its eight immersive tracks foregrounding the confusion of these relentlessly strange days of political chaos, plague and ecological precarity.
"We're at a real critical crossroads in terms of where humanity is heading and the systems of neo-liberal excess are happy to eat themselves to death while the rest of us either shrug or shake our heads,” says Stafford, who tracked the album in four days with Robbie Lesuik.

Lesuik has been a regular collaborator on Stafford's prolific output, notably on 2018's ambitious, classical-influenced album Fire Behind The Curtain. While the diamond-sharp intelligence of that highpoint shimmers on here, Trophic Asynchrony is a sleeker, more aerodynamic affair, with the Falkirk multi-instrumentalist drawing on his parallel work as a photographer and filmmaker to focus on imagery and emotion rather than lyrics.

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released July 9, 2021

Written by Adam Stafford.

Adam Stafford played: Refaces CS and CP, Guitar, EHX Mel9, Pianos, Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Percussion, Singing.

Robbie Lesiuk played: Guitar, Bass, Glockenspiel, Percussion and Organ Midi Programming.

Jon McCall played: Clarinets on Million Year Emperor.

Produced by Robbie Lesiuk and Stafford.

Recorded and engineered by Lesiuk in Glasgow July 1 - 5, 2020. Carnivore and Thrapples recorded and engineered by Stafford at home in Falkirk April/Sept 2020. All of it mixed by Lesiuk throughout the plagued year.

Mastered by Reuben Taylor. Mushroom Photography by Robert Sanders. Design and layout by Matthew Young.

Thank you: G and Boncey, Matthew and Kate, Jonny, Creative Scotland, PRS, Jim Clark, Ana, Help Musicians, everyone who pledged support during 2020.

Thrapples Clag is in memory of the great poet Janet Paisley.

Trophic Asynchrony is blizzards in June, daffodils in December, Swallows in February. Wormlight singing in five tongues.

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Adam Stafford Falkirk, UK

Adam Stafford is a musician and short film director from Falkirk, Central Scotland.

Stafford is known for his intense live performances which incorporate soul-pop, post-punk avant-garde and a capela experimentalism to dizzying effect. ... more

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