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Jul 21, 2020 · Rarely has he let darkness or discord seep into his work. On its surface, Species, Bing & Ruth’s fourth album, feels like a tonal and stylistic break from the relentlessly wide-eyed posture of ...
- No Home of The Mind
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- City Lake
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- No Home of The Mind
Jul 20, 2020 · 8/10. From a pragmatist’s perspective, Species might be Bing & Ruth’s least ambitious album. After debut album City Lake involved wrangling an 11-member ensemble and selling the self-released vinyl out of group leader David Moore’s basement, and with 2017’s No Home of the Mind written on seventeen pianos scattered around the United ...
Jul 20, 2020 · July 20, 2020 by Michael Sumsion. David Moore’s malleable minimalism project Bing & Ruth returns with a streamlined ensemble, a sharp focus and a wordlessly evocative LockDown transcendence. The New York composer David Moore’s penchant for a trance-inducing mixture of modern classical, drone, ambient and minimalism has been honed across a ...
A quiet, still and introspective journey. Prior to this album, no one would have ever called the music of Bing & Ruth noisy, and that certainly hasn’t changed with the release of Species. Though ...
Jul 16, 2020 · David Moore of Bing & Ruth, photographed by Tonje Thilesen. With a title like “Badwater Psalm”, the second track, which has more of a middle-of-the-keyboard brightness, ushers in pictures of a rural church in a devoted hardscrabble community, with still touches of the old worships nibbling at its thicketed fringes.
Jul 17, 2020 · Now joined by founding members, Jeremy Viner and Jeff Ratner, Bing & Ruth’s fourth album, Species, is shaped through a minimalist lens of openness and movement. As the trio widen their aim with an emotionally-rich album, Moore propels Bing & Ruth unlike ever before, achieving so through varieties of avant-garde and moments of pure reverie.
Jul 19, 2020 · Species. Review Summary: On his latest album of moody minimalism, David Moore switches out his piano for a Farsifa organ. For ambient music, it can sometimes feel overwhelming. You will probably know whether you like the entirety of Bing & Ruth’s new album Species within its first few minutes. Composer David Moore continues the precedent set ...
