This is the debut release from Marcus Lavie on Maquette Recordings, available on all major digital and streaming platforms on 22/03/2019.
‘Swansong’ is a series of stripped, feral jams, drawn from sessions recorded over a series of nights alone on a decaying rural industrial park, WW2 refugee ghosts stalking the encroaching woodland.
Lavie’s restless sequencing of drums, oscillators and keys functions as ritual music for this corroded landscape’s witching hour. Electronic evocations of cold war man-machine funk, Detroit futurism, post-rock drumming and British rural electronica are broken down and fed into overturned silos, through dark pines, across fractals of the unconscious, and are then reassembled into mutant percussive structures.
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released March 21, 2019
Written and produced by Marcus Lavie. Mixed by Hugh Fielding and Marcus Lavie at Maquette Studios in the English countryside. Mastered by Shawn at Optimum Mastering.
Original artwork by Stephen Cohn, used with kind permission from Matt Cohn. Sleeve design and layout by Oliver James Jackson. Thanks to Bella, Al, Laurie and Hugh for all your love and support.
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