Breathing Instruments Double LP
Breathing Instruments is a tribute to the breath in its many forms: human and animal respiration, sound patterns and rhythms made by wind, plants, and water, and our attempts to recreate it. Featuring: Dim Arc, Sunmoonstar, Emily A. Sprague, Fools, Cool Maritime, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Constant Shapes, Kathryn Shuman, Jeremiah Chiu, Kacey Johansing, Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore, Geotic, Andy Strain, Bana Haffar & Úlfur. Released Worldwide August 14th, 2020 Double LP / 33 RPM / Single Sleeve Photography by Chantal Anderson Design + Layout by Some All None Breathing Instruments by touchtheplants We must presume that the very first composed music was a direct human response to the natural world’s myriad rhythms. By this reasoning it follows that the human voice, capable of such deft mimicry, must also have been the first instrument. Repetitive patterns from bird songs to ocean tides to trees swaying and creaking in the wind are all around us, and merely await our attempts to r