or valleys and, by Nate Scheible

or valleys and

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1.	outlined in 04:32	buy track
2.	reproof of fancy games 02:11	buy track
3.	missississippi 01:16	buy track
4.	stray i 00:19	buy track
5.	stray ii 00:34	buy track
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7.	stray iv 00:25	buy track
8.	stray v 00:37	buy track
9.	stray vi 00:34	buy track
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11.	the silver shore 03:12	buy track
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about

Nate Scheible makes amorphous music that evades easy classification. Whether working with electronics or as a drummer, his fascination with tone and texture results in a sense of playful exploration, undercutting the stoicism that defines so much contemporary ambient music and free improvisation. Sounds quiver at the edge of existence, flickering imperceptibly between presence and absence. The boundary between the familiar and otherworldly blurs as he approaches the mundane from oblique angles. There’s a simultaneous sense of detachment and intensity, as if an irrepressible emotional churn is struggling to break through a veneer of stillness.

On Scheible’s new tape, or valleys and, change is constant. Using a wide array of electronics, found tape, and aided by a small ensemble of wind players from Washington, DC’s rich community of improvisors, he cycles through innumerable modes of music making in a deceptively quick 17 minutes. At its core is a suite of seven pieces with lengths averaging around 35 seconds, each named “stray,” where various instrumental elements participate in brief, but evocative, conversations. Horns blurt out a response to an elongated electronic tone, a turbulent duet of piano and snare cedes space to gentle, high-pitched harmonies. These well-defined miniatures contain complexity and variety, coaxing the listener to pay attention to each detail.

The music on or valleys and is undeniably experimental in content and form, pushing against norms of what might be considered conventional (the multi-layered recording of crinkling plastic comprising “the silver shore” and the tape’s entire b-side) or even musical (the hilarious and inexplicable found-audio piece “missississippi”). But it is also undeniably poignant, often playing out like a reflection of someone’s inner-most thoughts and feelings as they make sense of them in real time. Joy and melancholy appear hand in hand, as do absurdity and inscrutability; disparate emotions tumble into one another, arising and disappearing just as quickly. Its cohesion comes not from a defined sound palette or singular voice, but from the graceful way it moves through time, allowing a brief moment to make sense of how the music makes us feel before watching it unceremoniously float away.

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released February 16, 2024

Written and played by Nate Scheible, 2021-2022

Sarah Hughes - Alto Saxophone
Kirsten Lies-Warfield - Trombone
Abe Mamet - French Horn

Percussion, piano, and plastics recorded by Don Godwin at Tonal Park, Takoma, MD

Mastered by James Plotkin

Art by David Louis Cintron

Design & layout by Josh Levi

Thanks: Layne Garrett, Rosemary Hall, Anna Josephson, Ajoke Williams, Sarah, Kirsten, Abe, Don, James, Jonathan

Released by Outside Time, Washington, DC
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or valleys and

Feb 2024
plume

May 2023
Fairfax

Feb 2022
prions and scrapie

Jul 2020
indices

Jul 2019
breezewood

Nov 2016
matter

Oct 2015
rhetoric

Mar 2015

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