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EMEI

by EMEI

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    APHELION006-K7

    edition of 45
    professionally duplicated casette in library case with double-sided inlay artwork on thick card

    Includes unlimited streaming of EMEI via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Streaming + Download

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    edition of 25
    professionally duplicated CD-R in hand-assembled natural card gatefold packaging with slipcase , artwork design by Liam McConaghy , Photography by Louise Brady.

    Includes unlimited streaming of EMEI via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Frosted Glass 02:24
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2.
Blackbird 05:10
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3.
Can't Remember 05:17
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4.
Agoraphobia 06:17
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5.
Safe From The Storm 06:47
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6.
In The Dark Of The Night 06:22
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7.
Convergence 04:46
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8.
... 03:00
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about

EMEI's debut is an immersive 40+ minutes of luscious sound design and intriguing atmospherics.

It anounces itself with frosted bell-like tones mapping out an innocent, nursery rhyme-like melody that distorts and manipulates as layers of her own voice are fed into the mix and the tension mounts steadily before it all evaporates suddenly to empty space...

From here on in, synth drones, treated accordion, field recordings, vocal loops and a deft application of distortion processes combine to create a captivating and engrossing soundworld that can conjure numerous different textures and emotional responses, sometimes all at once.

EMEI's own beautiful, haunting analog photography adorns the packaging.


REVIEWS
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"...a throbbing rumble, like the onset of a ghostly motorcycle gang, streaks through ‘Safe From The Storm’, whose droning top notes carry a human/machine eeriness loosely similar to Aidan Baker or Fennesz. Highly worthwhile as debut offerings go."
NOEL GARDNER, THE QUIETUS, Noel's Foul House: Best of 2017
thequietus.com/articles/23729-foul-house-best-of-2017-new-weird-britain-elodie-vom-ansome-duds

"..Listening to the Debut album by Emei. A desolate place, full of familiarity but stillness. A haunted room within the prism of an echo"
DANIEL LEAVY

"Bristol’s Aphelion Editions come through with a hyper-limited sound-sketch by EMEI. Opener ‘Frosted Glass’ sets the tone nicely for EMEI. Beginning with glacial prettiness, the melodies soon distort and overlap to create thick textures that bear comparison to the likes of both Fennesz and Explosions In The Sky. The record is an impressionistic one, with nursery-rhyme melodies, found sounds, screeching drones and more flitting in and out of the mix"
NORMAN RECORDS

"Straight out of Bristol’s thriving underground comes this forty-minute slice of unnerving ambience from EMEI, AKA Louise Brady. Vexing her inner witch, this fine example of tonal paganism more than matches the haunting abstractions that package it all up.

The distorted timbres that greet you on “Frosted Glass” are a lo-fi pleasure, disquietly rattle round in your head, possess your speakers in smouldering hues. Rough-weathered vibes blissfully overdriven, laddered in osculating holes and troughed frequencies, the keystrokes murmuring like a discarded tape ribboning a roadside hedge (I’m showing my age here). So much drone music has been polished to oblivion you can hardly taste the zest anymore , it’s so great to hear a bit more pith, it really is.

Each track attentively layers the action up, dynamically builds the tension, occasionally throwing out blemishes of vocal that desiccate brilliantly. The rural rawness and shadowy expectation of “In The Dark Of The Night” that vividly inhabits. The apparition-filled ecstasy of “Blackbird” (a track that’s well worth the purchase price alone) with its pulsing undercurrent and hovering circulars, that itchy wooliness of synth-work caught in epic traceries and secateurring sonics.

This album’s a well-observed beast full of smooth debris and disembodied shade, a fleeting flavour of moth wings puckering the dusty air as it milks a sense of ruined grandeur, slips its shackles to whispering keystrokes and a serration of sampledelica. A little bit of jaggy rave scooping an altogether different scene before the final track (signified by four dots ) limbers to a harsh conclusion. Really hoping to catch this in the flesh very soon, but meanwhile this document is succouring my ears in sweet seduction."

-Michael Rodham-Heaps, freq.org.uk/reviews/emei-emei/

credits

released November 25, 2017

APHELION006
Music by EMEI : Louise Brady
Recorded at home
Mastered by Thomas J. Bryan @ Jute Box Studios

Photography by Louise Brady
Southwest China, Spring 2017
Design and layout by Liam Mcconaghy

Contact:
louise_brady(at)hotmail(dot)com
aphelioneditions(at)gmail(dot)com

STOCKISTS
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NORMAN RECORDS (UK)
www.normanrecords.com/records/169690-emei-emei

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EMEI Bristol, UK

Emei is the solo project of Louise Brady in which she creates drifting ambient sound collages that utilise field recordings from various travels, portable synthesizers and layers her own voice as well as an assortment of acoustic instruments such as accordion and piano. ... more

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