Justin Walter
Unseen Forces
Kranky
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2017
LP
24.99
KRANK210LP
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Tracklist
11001 5:15
2Unseen Forces 7:15
3Sixty 8:13
4End of Six 1:25
5It's Not What You Think 7:18
6Isotope 7:06
7Following 2:20
8Soft Illness 3:05
9Red 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.