Ambivector, by Low Forest

Ambivector

by Low Forest

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Graciously prepared by Electric Cat Studios in Kansas City, MO. Features front and back sleeve artwork designed by Josh King, and custom disc artwork as well. Disc, sticker on top, in a cardboard sleeve, in shrinkwrap. Pretty neat!

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1.	Sun Warship 00:45	buy track
2.	Why Came You Between Us? 05:46	buy track
3.	Cloudwalker 05:35	buy track
4.	Crescent Earth 06:37	buy track
5.	Dust Spectre 05:21	buy track
6.	Jovian Nectar 05:45	buy track
7.	Catasteroid 01:59	buy track
8.	Twelvth Thesis 06:01	buy track
9.	Cascading Recombinant Chaos 07:52	buy track
10.	Ice for the Day 03:16	buy track
11.	Symbolic Interactionist 05:55	buy track

about

Ambivector is a concept album of noise that accompanies the album Entrovert. Ambivector is designed to be played concurrently with Entrovert--you sync up Sun Worshipper and Sun Warship, and then each song plays together. On the other hand, you can also listen to Ambivector by itself. Try both albums at equal volumes, one up high, the other low, and on a variety of different systems.

As a space rock project, Ambivector serves as the "space," and Entrovert as the "rock." The dual-release concept originated with JOsh King in 2021. As best friends and long-time collaborators in The Man And The Scientist (Saint Louis noise), King brought Brad Schumacher onto the project, and together they produced Ambivector as Entrovert was nearing completion.

Ambivector is a literal journey out from the center of the solar system. The album features real recordings of radio waves from the sun and all planets (including you, Pluto, no matter what they say). Track 1 is the sun, Track 2 Mercury, Track 3 Venus, and so on. Each celestial body presents a conceptual presentation of interference or ambience that contextualizes (or intentionally conflicts) with the songs on Entrovert. Adding to this theme, Schumacher also utilized the program Metasynth, a visual synthesizer known for generating the soundtrack to the movie The Matrix. Schumacher obtained images of the planets and sun, and fed them through Metasynth to create sonic representations of each celestial body. These ominous tonal representations are layered within each track of the album.

As if that weren't enough, the songs of Ambivector are also written from a modal compositional standpoint, e.g. the song Dust Spectre is written using a C# Locrian bass ostinato, relative to the D Major key of The Pleiades (it's corresponding song on Entrovert). On its own, Dust Spectre is a sparse and haunting meditation. When played in sync with The Pleiades, the Locrian riffs give way to the tonic of the rock song, and effectively replace the bass part.

Ambivector also features crucial melodies, harmonies, and lead lines performed by Schumacher on various synthesizers, which are performed to Entrovert but do not appear on that album. In essence, to get a full sense of either record, both should be heard in tandem. That said, each album is designed to be listened to discretely. Ambivector on its own is mixed to be warm, inviting, immersive, and trance-inducing, evoking ASMR and hygge experiences during standalone listens.

King's five year old son, Faizan King, performs the piano in Symbolic Interactionist.

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released March 31, 2023

Brad Schumacher - performed synthesizers, Metasynth, noise circuits
Josh King - Manual granular synthesis, hammer dulcimer, wind chimes, vocals, samples, guitar, bass, noise circuits
Faizan King - Piano
Halston Rossi - Drums

Additional vocals by Sobia Paracha, Allison Dohr, Ashley Rossi, and David Farris.

Mixed by Brad Schumacher and Josh King
Mastered by Josh King

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