Beresford Marsh - Ageless somehow (Weston Four) [Ambient Pop]

Beresford Marsh are a thoughtful pair. Charlie Beresford is a visual artist, guitarist, singer, instrument designer, engineer, filmmaker and genre fluid music maker, perhaps best known for his ambient jazzish Fourth Page project, not to mention various discerning collaborations. Peter Marsh is a man about London town, playing all sorts of instruments with a whole host of outfits including the TSMM approved The Quiet Temple and Duke Garwood. He also had a ten year spell with Fourth Page, as well as long standing improvised recordings with Beresford under this swampy pseudonym, so the pair have serious form and understanding.

The track starts in fine ambient form with what sounds like a slide guitar being gently caressed and possibly picked to form a tap dripping metronome which sets an encouragingly sedate, electroacoustic course for the track. It doesn't take long for Beresford's voice to slip into the gentle soundscape and he doesn't disappoint, whispering and gently singing his stream of consciousness so as not to overwhelm the similarly flimsy soundscape, instead choosing to slide into its gaseous ambient constructs out of structural necessity, resulting in a fine slice of wafer thin ambient folk that pleasingly doesn't sound like too much else around.

This is not music for passive listening, even the most sedate of activities or the turning of a page could overwhelm this hushed transmission, so pull up a chair and preferably don your headphones. Whilst you're there check out, "Jutland Plantation", a more straight ahead but enticing instrumental folk teaser from their forthcoming album that was recorded last winter in Wale's rural folds, and if you've got any sense put the October 30th album release date in your diary.

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