Always, by Pale Earth

Always

by Pale Earth

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1.	◎ PART 1 - Dynasty 00:31	buy track
2.	Dynasty 01:52	buy track
3.	Understanding & Approaching 07:02	buy track
4.	Ama Divers 01:56	buy track
5.	Apricot Wood House 05:59	buy track
6.	Weave 04:23	buy track
7.	Sour Candy 05:49	buy track
8.	Sequal 03:34	buy track
9.	(Woke Up) It Was A Chelsea Afternoon 05:26	buy track
10.	Birthday 01:18	buy track
11.	◉ PART 2 - White Rainbow 00:33	buy track
12.	Folis 01:29	buy track
13.	A Walk 01:37	buy track
14.	Valley Twelves 03:41	buy track
15.	Golden 05:01	buy track
16.	Who Are You 00:53	buy track
17.	R.O.C Ghost 01:45	buy track
18.	Yokohama Slow Water 05:22	buy track
19.	Kings 02:10	buy track
20.	Charcoal Clade 07:11	buy track
21.	⦿ PART 3 - Not Only Tell Tale 00:35	buy track
22.	Be Right Back With Love 05:10	buy track
23.	Eikoh House 02:28	buy track
24.	Hex Garden 03:16	buy track
25.	Grass Moon 02:59	buy track
26.	Linda, Linda 00:32	buy track
27.	Tell Tale Ghost 02:42	buy track
28.	Century Modern 03:34	buy track
29.	Flax 01:50	buy track
30.	Always 02:57	buy track
31.	Echo Cannon 03:31	buy track
32.	Haenyeo Gwisin 02:35	buy track
33.	A Transfer Of Tide 03:15	buy track

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Pale Earth is Benjamin Thompson.

“Always” is a new trilogy of works created in 2016. As it unfolds, it strips itself, revealing raw process. It redirects the focus from the macro, toward something more isolated and singular. The three acts it is divided into, can be thought of as dreamy iterations. They are a movie adaptation, an oral history and a documentary of the same story.

Cinematic in its approach, Thompson’s own travels influence and signpost the record. Ancesteral ghosts follow lovers home, down the vast and dividing winter mountains of South-East Taiwan. Epileptic lights strobe across bodies behind the door of every concrete block of Tokyo’s thick summer downpour. Quiet loops conjured into existence during the early hours shrink away from the thin walls of 1920’s studio apartments. While you were here, while you were away. While you were awake, while you were asleep. Always.

Always is a literal reflection of itself. A body of work not conceived as a final anthology, rather a gathered moment of the practice with which Thompson journals and soundtracks his own life day to day.

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released March 1, 2017

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