![]() ![]() Other than that, I just moved into a new apartment in the same neighborhood so I’m getting settled in there. I’m working on some new music as well in fits and starts. Mostly working on learning to play the drums and painting. I’m just working in the studio most days. Mostly just been laying low, taking it a day at a time. Press play for a mix that’s sure to lull, blur, and soothe, the perfect accompaniment for a cold grey late afternoon or early evening in February, wherever in the world you are. Across its one-hour run-time, you’ll hear the Earthen Sea hallmarks-picturesque chords and drifting melody lines-and even its more beat-driven moments are underpinned by vast sonic and luxurious textures. Recorded last month in Long’s Brooklyn studio, Earthen’s Sea’s XLR8R podcast captures a similar vibe, as it moves through glitchy ambient and experimental electronics. ![]() With An Act Of Love, his debut on Kranky, Long demonstrated a knack for foggy, idiosyncratic ambient music, as he sought to create the perfect soundtrack to walking around his then-home of San Francisco at night. This was at least in part because Long’s dub-punk projects, Black Eyes and Mi Ami, had dissolved, sharpening his focus on his solo work. That changed after the turn of the millennium but it wasn’t until the early 2010s, after nearly a decade of developing his sound with a series of quietly impressive, low-key releases, that Earthen Sea really hit its stride. So, in the ’90s, Long bought his first four-track recorder and began experimenting with sound, though none of his early cuts saw public release. Almost instantly, Long knew this was where he belonged. He’d spend his free time scouring magazines for new music and, one day, he read a two-page spread in Details about ambient music, which pointed him towards artists like Phillip Glass, Dinosaur Jr, and Aphex Twin, kicking Long into the realms of electronic music. As a young boy, he was encouraged by his parents to play violin and listen to classical radio, but he also took an interest in metal, grunge, and punk, in particular the work of Nirvana. The roots of Earthen Sea’s work run back to Cleveland, where he was born and raised. Across 10 psychedelic tracks composed and recorded during the first wave of lockdowns in his home in New York, Long continues to refine his fragile, fractured palette into fluttering arrhythmias of dust, percussion, and yearning. Jacob Long has been making vaporous, lo-fi ambient music as Earthen Sea for nearly two decades, sharing albums across Nicolás Jaar‘s Other People, Imminent Frequencies, and Kranky, which is where he’s putting out Ghost Poems, his latest outing. ![]()
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