IMP005 - Blaerg, “Dysphoric Sonorities” |
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BLÆRG’s newest album, “Dysphoric Sonorities“, is filled with subtle, purposeful intelligence which begins with its philologically challenging titles and continues through the very last moments of track nine, “Titanium Cicada“. With titles such as “Ebullient Leitmotif” and “Crepuscular Harlotry” you may feel that this album is an exercise in “Unmitigated Verbosity” (track 05), but, if you delve further, you’ll find that every choice made in this album is deliberate and selective, from the samples, beats and rhythms to the polysyllabic titles.
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IMP004 - Life Toward Twilight, “Blood” |
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“Blood” is a 17 minute dark ambient mini-album that explores themes and moods from horror films.
…this EP feels less like a distinct collection of tracks than a single piece exploring fear from different perspectives and through multiple movements. While different sampled layers help to create different landscapes, with “R’lyeh” using soft splashes to evoke the sound of H.P. Lovecraft’s undersea metropolis and “Orlok” using distant screams and labored breathing to conjure the Dracula analogue from the original silent film Nosferatu, Tuttle’s commitment to subtlety and his use of lots of open space pulls everything together.” - Grave Concerns Magazine
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IMP003 - Life Toward Twilight, “I Swear By All The Flowers” |
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Life Toward Twilight’s “I Swear By All The Flowers” explores memories from the end of the Nineteenth Century through sound collage and gentle melodies. The album tells a quiet story, with an unnamed protagonist, exploring daily life, travels, and intimate moments.
All of the sounds used in the recording came from antique sources, including music boxes, ticking grandfather clocks, steam trains, wax cylinder recordings, early mechanical factories and old voices. An old detuned piano played by hesitant ghosts haunts the recording. A warm static stays in place throughout, a constant reminder of the technical hurdles of early recordings.
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aIMP016 - Life Toward Twilight, “Edison’s Frankenstein” |
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This album is a compilation of tracks put together as a proposed score for the near lost Frankenstein movie, filmed by Edison Studios in 1910.
In a time when moving pictures were considered new and vulgar compared to the respectable plays of the state Edison Studios undertook the challenge to commit the first moving picture version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The intent of this version, as stated in The Edison Kinetogram was, “to concentrate its endeavors upon the mystic and psychological problems,” of Shelley’s “weird tale.” This innovative film, believed to be the first American horror movie, was lost from memory until a series of serendipitous incidents led to the discovery of the lone surviving reel from the hands of a collector in the 1970’s. This new score has been composed in homage to those early pioneers of cinema who have transformed this once “vulgar” medium to the art form it is today. The music and movie is available on a hand made two disc set. It can only be purchased from Bottle Imp Productions. It includes an audio CD with the music, and a DVD with the film synced to the Life Toward Twilight score.
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IMP002 - Life Toward Twilight, “We Waited For A Subtle Dawn” |
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“We Waited For A Subtle Dawn” is a collection of tracks composed by Life Toward Twilight between 2002 and 2005. The tracks explore various styles and genres, including ambient, neoclassical, and sound collage.
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