
Efficient Space
Various Artists - Searchlight Moonbeam
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-
Aser
the
killer
compila]ons
‘Sky
Girl’
(ES002)
and
‘Ghost
Riders’
(ES022)
Efficient
Space
now
present
‘Searchlight
Moonbeam’...
Searchlight
Moonbeam
is
the
new
narra]ve
compila]on
from
Time
Is
Away
(Jack
Rollo
and
Elaine
Tierney)
whose
eponymous
monthly
NTS
Radio
shows,
]nctured
fusions
of
fugi]ve
sounds
and
reverie-inducing
archival
speech,
have
won
them
an
ardent
following.
It
follows
from
the
London-based
duo’s
Ballads,
a
remarkable
driswerk
released
on
A
Colourful
Storm
in
2022.
Searchlight
Moonbeam
is
an
autumnal
dreamscape,
in]mate
and
vesper]ne,
pensive
and
irresolute.
An
imagined
community
where
differences
drop
off
and
resonances
emerge
–
between
Maher
Shalal
Hash
Baz
affiliates
Kasumi
Trio,
Taiwanese
score
composer
Chen
Ming
Chang
whose
‘Rainwater’
(wriQen
for
Hou
Hsiao-Hsien’s
1986
film
Dust
In
The
Wind)
is
exquisitely
heartbroken,
and
the
plangent
improvisa]ons
of
self-taught
French
pianist
Delphine
Dora.
Revela]ons
are
frequent:
the
bedsit
isola]onism
of
Bo
Harwood
and
John
Cassavetes’
‘No
One
Around
to
Hear
It’
(from
The
Killing
of
a
Chinese
Bookie);
the
narked
minimalism
of
Klang
(an
early
2000s
band
formed
by
ex-Elas]ca
guitarist
and
featuring
prize-winning
experimental
novelist
Isabel
Waidner
on
bass);
the
etude-
grooves
and
echoic
wobble
of
below-the-radar
French
avant-gardists
Omertà
;
the
beau]ful,
plain]vely
dubby
‘Is
It
You?’
by
Slapp
Happy;
a
psych-]nged
reimagining
of
PiL’s
‘Poptones’
by
Simon
Fisher
Turner
(one
half
of
Deux
Filles,
and
here,
recording
for
él
as
The
King
of
Luxembourg)
that's
as
perverse
as
the
cover
of
Throbbing
Gristle’s
20
Jazz
Funk
Greats.
Searchlight
Moonbeam
is
the
musical
analog
of
an
Italo
Calvino
novel
or
a
medieval
fable.
Associa]ve,
intui]ve,
borderless.
Emo]onal
and
mysterious.
Endowed
with
the
tac]lity
of
Braille.
A
private
language
that
is
both
unknowable
and
understood.
It
is
a
record
of
the
seasons,
for
the
seasons.
2023
marks
the
tenth
anniversary
of
Time
Is
Away’s
first
broadcast.
Featuring
an
evoca]ve
essay
by
writer
Jeremy
Atherton
Lin
and
disarming
cover
art
by
Penny
Davenport,
Searchlight
Moonbeam
showcases
Rollo
and
Tierney’s
s]ll-unrivalled
talent
for
gloaming
melodies,
disques
du
crépuscule,
ensorcelled
storytelling.
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