The Wind of Things

by M. Sage & The Spinnaker Ensemble

The Wind of Things cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 April 2021
  • Label: Geographic North
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:56
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Collaborating with a diverse array of instrumentalists under the moniker The Spinnaker Ensemble, Matthew Sage constructs a profoundly delicate, heavily textured electroacoustic environment. The album relies on gentle vibraphone, lap steel, and cello arrangements layered atop subtle, watery field recordings and analog synthesizer swells. It serves as a deeply meditative, highly pastoral exploration of acoustic ambiance and naturalistic sound design.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, instrumental, aquatic, ambient, minimal, dreamy, folk, chamber, organic, gentle

Tracklist

  1. Cloud Plexus (3:51)
  2. Harbor Dive (2:24)
  3. Launching Mossy Scow (2:53)
  4. Zephyr: Ponderosa Pollen (3:34)
  5. Starboard Reach (1:02)
  6. Luffing Adrift (2:49)
  7. Sail-Shaped Light (2:20)
  8. Slipping the Mooring/Pond (3:55)
  9. Dazzling Shallow Bay (2:37)
  10. Portside Mark (1:05)
  11. Tell Tail Tale (3:00)
  12. Spinnaker on a Southerly (3:07)
  13. Hiked Way Out (4:13)

Credits

  • Matthew Sage - primary artist
  • Spinnaker Ensemble - primary artist
  • Stefan Kjartansson - script by
  • Matt Wenzel - banjo, banjo, tenor saxophone

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