Last year Scott and I were invited by the folks at Vancouver New Music to present a concert for their Vox Organi festival, based off of the work captured on Colours of Air. The invitation was special in that it asked us to work with an organ live, and not just as a rich sound source.

"Plume" is a quintessential example of what Kranky has to offer - complexity through subtlety and vice-versa. Once a one-man project of Scott Morgan, Loscil has flourished into an ensemble effort that combines something premeditated with masterful improvisation. His previous album, "First Narrows", introduced other performers into Morgan's muted world, and the structure of each piece was created by the tight editing of their performances. This time, he has again laid down simple themes and mechanical rhythms for his group to improvise over, but he has chosen not to edit, allowing each piece to unfold naturally and letting the players determine the direction of the music…

Vancouver’s ambient great Loscil returns with handfuls of foggy atmospheric saturation in ‘Equivalents’, his 12th solo album and 9th for long-term supporters at Kranky. Framed by production methods mirroring the early 20th Century photographs of Alfred Stieglitz, regarded for “abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay”, Loscil vents eight voluminous swells of greyscale harmonics and distant, aeolian melody that beckons eyelids to half-mast and bodies to the horizontal…