Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - To Live & Die In Space & Time (Moon Glyph)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

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What We Say

Choosing The Slow Music Movement's recommendation of the day over my morning coffee is usually an impulsive & visceral decision. Waking up & being reminded of the horrors in Ukraine & of war returning to Europe has sent me to the soothing, contemplative, though perhaps unfortunately titled new release from Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice on Moon Glyph. It's a wonderfully gentle & palliative slice of spiritual jazz & neoclassical graced ambient music, that is really hitting the spot today. 

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What The Release Notes Say

Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice return with a new album of piano, synthesizers, tenor sax, wind synths and electronics. Following their excellent previous albums (Iceblink’s "Carpet Cocoon" and Cole Pulice’s "Gloam") the duo moves into otherworldly ambience that straddles acoustic and digital spaces, evoking an uncanny world both strange and familiar. 

“To Live & Die In Space & Time” began with an improvised set at the 2020 Drone Not Drones festival in Minneapolis that unveiled new worlds of sonic possibilities the duo wanted to reapproach. Lynn and Cole continued exploring this palette of sounds and ideas in the months that followed, a practice that continued as they relocated across the country and settled in their now home of Oakland, California. Lynn and Cole were not initially intending to create an "album" - instead, they were just committed to a regular practice of improvising, recording, forgetting, reapproaching, alchemizing old & new ideas, and allowing material to shapeshift. Eventually, something like an album revealed itself, which Lynn and Cole honed into “To Live & Die in Space & Time.” 

The sounds of TL&DIS&T are elegant, transportive and vast, like being wrapped in a blanket of stars, finding warmth andcomfort in the unknown spaces of transition that don't immediately reveal meaning or purpose. In other words, the constellation of sounds on TL&DIS&T approach floating in "the void" as something less than ominous, perhaps even enchanting.  

Credits
​Music by Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice 

Lynn: Grand Piano, Synthesizer, Electronics 
Cole: Tenor Saxophone, Wind Synthesizer, Electronics 

Tracks 1, 2, & 4 recorded Jan 2020 at 8vB Studios Minneapolis, MN 
—Engineering help from Charlie Bruber 
Track 3 recorded Sept 2020 in Seward Minneapolis, MN 
Mixing and additional recording done in Oakland, CA Sept 2021 

Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio 

Art & Design by Steve Rosborough

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