Ross Gentry - Apparitional - New Cassette 2022 American Dreams Tape - Ambient / Experimental / Drone

Throughout the movie Jacob’s Ladder—directed by Adrian Lyne, about a Vietnam veteran struggling to make sense of flashbacks and hallucinations that haunt him after the war—characters writhe with such force and speed as to seem unreal. Lyne would shoot footage at a low frame rate, speeding actors’ motions to such a point that they seemed impossible. His film is comfortable representing time through nonlinear means; often it would show a long period of time passing in an instant, or intersperse flashbacks and hallucinations within shots of the tangible world. Ross Gentry’s new album Apparitional produces similar effects with sound. Using what have now become near-trademarks of Gentry’s—a host of instruments and recording technologies, electronic and acoustic, layered atop music captured during past sessions—Apparitional illustrates the ghostly qualities that suggest its title: time’s passing seems both continuous and fractured, and sonic images weave into and prise one another, creating a world of striking vividness.

Gentry conceptualized the album during a time in which he struggled to sleep, using the space between sleep and wakefulness as creative inspiration. “I had a brief moment where I felt like my dream life was intersecting with my waking life,” he says. “They were...  more

releases February 4, 2022

Recorded and performed by Ross Gentry, January - April 2021

Strings performed by:
Emmalee Hunnicutt -- cello
Megan Drollinger -- violins

Strings recorded by Ross Gentry and Patrick Kukucka

Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Artwork by Thom Nguyen

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