Tomorrow, September 12th, you can see ambient artist Loscil performing live at New York at Columbia University’s Miller Theater, with Dan Bejar (Destroyer). The set will be an interwoven performance of both Loscil and Destroyer’s music.
Quietly eschewing trends in popular electronic music for over a decade, Loscil (aka Scott Morgan) uses slow building and deceptively basic rhythmic technics to craft haunted, lingering ambient electronica. Driven conceptually from the bottom up, Loscil’s albums draw from decidedly specific sources of inspiration: 2001’s Triple Point is based on concepts of thermodynamics, every track from 2002’s aquatic Submers is named after a submarine (the last of which was written for the Russian crew of the Kursk), and 2004’s First Narrows is a reference to the official name of the Vancouver bridge. Rather than letting these thematic undertones limit his output, Morgan utilizes them as loose anchors for the emotive trajectory of each track. The simple starting points are twisted to gradually reveal deeper and deeper layers of feeling, and in effect they push the basics of ambient music to refreshingly unexpected depths. Furthering the overarching movement his albums toward the skies, Morgan continues to expand both in both sound and theory on the most recent Loscil release, 2006’s Plume.
You can find more information about Saturday’s live event by clicking here, and all of Loscil’s albums are currently available for download from dancetracks. Also look out for Loscil’s forthcoming EP ‘Strathcona Variations’ on Ghostly International, set for release on 22nd September.
