Littlefolk, by Mount Maxwell

Littlefolk

by Mount Maxwell

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Dorosoto A beautifully textured record full of melody and mystery. It sounds like a cassette tape someone found buried under trees on the shore of a mist covered lake. This is pure imagination music and highly recommended.

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1.	Sea of Milk 02:22	buy track
2.	Maze Crete 05:30	buy track
3.	Sky Eye 05:09	buy track
4.	A Long Road 05:52	buy track
5.	Ages 04:40	buy track
6.	Slow Moves 03:37	buy track
7.	Tree Motion 03:46	buy track
8.	Littlefolk 08:46	buy track
9.	Mist 03:59	buy track
10.	Hi Traveller 03:40	buy track

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Mount Maxwell returns with another full-length journey into memory, melody, and geography - this time roaming beyond the BC environs of his previous records into a stranger, less knowable country. While still woozily nostalgic in the vein of Only Children and The People’s Forest, this outing feels more exploratory and wide ranging in scope, with a denser mixture of influences at play. The somnambulistic drift of Sea of Milk sets the stage with a series of wavering synth pulses that push us languidly toward land, eventually setting us down on the sands of Maze Crete, where a shadowy latticework of hand drums, flutes and synths await. From there we ascend to the aptly named Sky Eye, a rolling mixture of acoustic beats and analog string machines that gives us our first bird’s eye view of the album’s landscape. A Long Road pushes the acoustic instrumentation further, with shimmering tambourine marking time for a collection of hand drums and shakers, while Ages summons up an occult-like dream of glacial arpeggios and whispering synths. Slow Moves and Tree Motion float effortlessly along on beds of lazy congas and woodblocks before finally giving way to the title track - a heady juggernaut of distorted synths and trundling rhythms that propels us through the album’s second half like a locomotive through darkening hills. Drawing the record to a close, the gently repeating keyboard phrase of Mist blooms unexpectedly into a rainbow of human voices before evaporating into the oceanic swells of Hi Traveller. And there Littlefolk leaves us as it found us; adrift in a rolling sea.

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released November 24, 2023

Jamie Tolagson: Instruments & Artwork
Mastering: Noah Mintz

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters.

Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.
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Mount Maxwell Vancouver, British Columbia

A founding member of Vancouver Island's MMR Collective, and founder of the Canadian experimental electronic label Hotham Sound, artist and musician Jamie Tolagson (Mount Maxwell) currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC. His music is a unique blend of analog synths and acoustic instrumentation, calling to mind such artists as Boards of Canada, Bruce Langhome, and Tangerine Dream. ... more

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