other room listening

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1.	Logpile 06:35	buy track
2.	Cold Yellow Red Blue 17:50	buy track
3.	The Long Walk 03:51	buy track
4.	Matches-Sticks 06:00	buy track
5.	Cold Yellow Reprise 01:58	buy track
6.	Last One 05:14	buy track
7.	Cold (Remastered Bonus Track) 08:45	buy track
8.	Woodpile (Remastered Bonus Track) 05:02	buy track

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Irish composer Karl McGrath employs a unique approach to create beautifully constructed, and keenly observed emotional electro-acoustic pieces. Under his alias Zvuku, Karl has had a handful of releases to date, other room listening is his first full length album. Living just over the Dublin / Co Wicklow border, his home looks out over mountains in the West, these and the surrounding landscape have inspired and informed the dynamics of these pieces.

This sense of place is evident throughout the album, and progressed through his approach, which began with recordings of live instrumentation - guitar, violin and piano - and minimal editing or interference with the resulting sound. By leaving hiss, room noise in the recordings, and 'mistakes' in his playing, each track retains a human element which delivers a presence of emotion for the listener to experience.

Recorded either in one take, or a handful of sessions, processed and edited in the most part through outboard effects. Karl's intention to create an ebb and flow of movement via these contrasting walls of sound and quiet interludes is brilliantly realised, weaving the listener into a captivating journey; at once intimate and expansive.

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released April 30, 2012

Originally released on Futuresequence
All music by Kar McGrath
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri

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zvuku Wicklow, Ireland

Zvuku is a pseudonym of Karl McGrath an Irish ambient electro-acoustic arist who uses synthesis, violin, piano, guitar and modular synth married with effects and other recording processes to create dynamic works that span the genres of drone, modern classical and ambient.
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