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Gentle Heart

by Mark Templeton

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Pond 03:19
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Cab Lights 03:06
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Valley 02:41
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about

Mark Templeton returns with the third installment in his Heart trilogy. Following on the heels of Scotch Heart (2011) and Jealous Heart (2013), Gentle Heart is a fitting closure to this story, an album filled with bending, yearning phrases - sounds that feel like they are actually speaking to you from another time, as if they’re being piped into the room where you’re listening today.

There is a continued use of elements that hearken to tape machines and older technology combined with acoustic instruments and modern studio techniques and sensibilities, squarely centered in the contemporary moment. Loops stumble and fall off their track, then regain their footing, breaking the concentration enough to remind you that someone is here and paying attention. In both structure and emotion, Templeton captures time in a novel way - connecting points that don’t immediately lend themselves to such a connection, deftly balancing qualities that are both haunting and inviting. This music is one of imagined memory, capturing moments that never happened, but could have.

An example of this can be seen in how the track titles suggest a sense of Western tropes, but the music is anything but, not intentionally misleading the would-be listener but rather nodding to a set of ideas and images that drive the artist’s intentions in this album, and through his interpretations the tracks become far removed from any assumption of what these words or images may mean. It speaks to what is happening in the background and lets the listener think about how one point moves to another. It is not a strict form. It is a flexible guide that allows the music to touch things that it doesn’t hold on to tightly - playing with mood and tone while veering into its own direction.

Much in this vein Gentle Heart closes with two pieces that make one think of a vast prairie, one that has been rearranged in a computer and put back together - not to make it more digital but to make it new through the perspective of today. Twangy guitar strums filled with hisses and fuzz roll into clipped phrases that are nostalgic in their specific way, a modern imagining of a past time that may hold a sense of simple peacefulness, of space, of a long view that goes forever. -Ezekiel Honig

credits

released June 20, 2017

Written and produced by Mark Templeton 2014-2016
Image treatment by Mark Templeton
Graphic design by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

GRAPHICAL 004
Published by Mark Templeton (SOCAN)
P+C 2017 Mark Templeton

Thanks: Lord, friends and family

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Graphical sound or drawn sound is a sound recording created from images drawn directly onto film or paper that were then played back using a sound system.

Graphical is a Canada based label releasing sound and visual elements in various formats.

Graphical was founded in 2015 by Mark Templeton.
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