Gathering Rains, by Trace Sphere

Gathering Rains

by Trace Sphere

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1.	Waters Converge 03:14	buy track
2.	Gathering Rains 05:42	buy track
3.	Ghost Song 10:09	buy track
4.	I Go 04:07	buy track
5.	Streams Revealed 03:45	buy track
6.	Little Gate 04:31

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Il Dong Bae - Voice
Simon Barker - Drums
Carl Dewhurst - Guitars
Riley Lee - Shakuhachi
Matt McMahon - Piano
Phil Slater - Trumpet

All music by Bae, Barker, Dewhurst, Lee, McMahon, Slater

Produced by Simon Barker

Recorded at Studios 301, Sydney, 13th September 2014
by David Nicholas
Assisted by Jono Baker
Mixed by Simon Barker
Mastered by Christoph Stickel
Cover image: Goolagan Creek, QLD, 2000 by Gordon Undy

Special thanks: Campbelltown Arts Centre, Matt Steffen, David Nicholas, Jono Baker, Gordon Undy, Lyndell Undy, Christoph Stickel, Chris Frape

For physical CD copies of Gathering Rains please visit:
www.kimnara.com.au

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released February 5, 2015

Review from Sydney Morning Herald
Trace Sphere
GATHERING RAINS
(KIMNARA)
★★★★★
Simon Barker unveiled this band last year in an unforgettable concert at Campbelltown Arts Centre. While the music is improvised, it is he who "composed" the band, assembling the collective brilliance of these six musicians. Korean Pansori singer Il Dong Bae has previously collaborated extensively with Barker and often enough with guitarist Carl Dewhurst, pianist Matt McMahon and trumpeter Phil Slater.

In an inspired decision, Barker's new addition was Riley Lee, whose shakuhachi offerings are as right as white clouds against a blue sky. Indeed ,Lee almost seems the missing link in the concept's evolution. Barker has conceived of a series of smaller groups interacting within the sextet, and the ineffable sadness of the shakuhachi helps glue Bae's searing contribution to the surrounding gentler music-making, just as Barker's drums and percussion do in a very different way. But all is poetry, so this album will reveal treasures across many listenings. It is surely one of the high-water marks in Australian spontaneous composition, and has been vividly recorded and glowingly mastered.

John Shand

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Simon Barker Sydney, Australia

I'm a drummer and I like documenting drumming experiments and explorations. To find out more please visit my website:
simonbarker.com.au
For more high/low drum chants visit:
chantcoils.bandcamp.com

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