Colin Andrew Sheffield & James Eck Rippie - Essential Anatomies 2xLP

Colin Andrew Sheffield (sampler) and James Eck Rippie (turntables) began playing music together in Dallas, Texas in 2000 and released their debut LP, Variations, a year later. They separated soon afterwards, relocating to cities 2600 miles apart; and though they continued with solo work, they remained inactive as a duo until recently. During this hiatus, Sheffield stayed busy dealing antiquarian books and running his Elevator Bath label; Rippie became an accomplished sound mixer for major motion pictures and television shows. And yet the collaboration between these two friends of a quarter century has always held a special significance. So, in 2015, when the two found themselves both living in Austin, a reactivation of their improvising duo was a happy inevitability. Essential Anatomies is the fruit of the pair's renewed efforts. Comprising four pieces originally issued on limited edition cassettes and now widely available for the first time, the double LP is an experiment in audio col