Tracklist
1 | 1001 | 5:15 | |
2 | Unseen Forces | 7:15 | |
3 | Sixty | 8:13 | |
4 | End of Six | 1:25 | |
5 | It's Not What You Think | 7:18 | |
6 | Isotope | 7:06 | |
7 | Following | 2:20 | |
8 | Soft Illness | 3:05 | |
9 | Red Cabin | 1:39 |
Michigan trumpeter Justin Walter’s solo work centers on evocative, intuitive explorations of the EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument), a rare wind-controlled analog synthesizer from the 1970’s. Its unique, smeared tonality allows for an expressive range of glassy, jazz-like textures, which Walter loops and layers with hushed electronics and twilit trumpet, painting opaque landscapes of resonant beauty.
Walter’s 2013 debut, Lullabies & Nightmares, included a handful of collaborations with percussionist Quin Kirchner but Unseen Forces finds him fully solo, refining the project to its essence: shape-shifting watercolors of pastel haze, lit by the soft synthetic glow of electric breath. It’s a sound both modern and timeless, fusing emotion and technology, gauze and melody, force and fragility.