Chewing Pine

Lori Scacco – Circles (Eastern Developments Music, 2004)

If you like one of these tracks, you like them all. It’s like a mini-symphony, without the old, European rigidity. Circles feels like it was perhaps recorded in Oregon, inside of a tree or some such. The instrumental nature of this album, Scacco playing guitar and piano, makes it very hard for the listener to discern one track from the next. Maybe it’s sound-track music. But it is rather impressive that this entire recording, save for the bass parts, attributable to Tim Delaney, came from a single persons’ mind. All the light and airy instrumental sections as well as the negative space (or silence if you’d like), echoes and occasional glitch-pop production came from one, singular perspective. Scacco’s talent was evident enough to Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) to take her on tour as well as put out this slab. Just one warning though. If you’re driving and feel moderately tired, do not put this on. It may, in that one situation, cause death.

Tracklisting:
01 – Reeling Then Again
02 - Imitation Of Happiness
03 – Quiet Light, A
04 – Heirlooms
05 – Love’s Journey
06 – Sketches Of Lines In Spiral
07 – Moving Thought Meditation
08 – Meditation
09 – Love’s Reprise