Charles Esposito: Accidental Music 1987-1991

Ultravillage is a collective and burgeoning community of new age music devotees, private press fanatics, and underground ambient, minimal, and progressive electronic aficionados. Their website at ultravillage. Com is fast becoming the go-to guide for the most obscure entries in the American new age and minimal music canon - a crucial hub for diggers, archivists, and label runners recovering lost sounds from by-gone eras. Mark Griffey, the man behind Ultravillage, has recently made the venture into releasing albums, with the intention of reissuing forgotten personal masterpieces of 1980s and 90s private press synth culture on the new label Mid-Air Museum. MM's first vinyl record release is a collaboration with Scottish reissue label chOOn!!. Together, they present Accidental Music 1987-1991 by Charles Esposito, a career retrospective of the experimental composer from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The cinematic and the sacred swirl around on Accidental Music, which gives new life to intriguing self-released tapes that Esposito put out in the 1980s and 90s. Heard by few on it's original release, the music featured on this compilation ranges from Palace of Lights percussive sonics to an almost minimal techno palette, a meeting of pop and twisted electronics with the hypnotic immediacy of ancient ritual. Accidental Music 1987-1991 develops a series of resonant harmonic spaces by adding layers of instruments and played objects. Rather than work as acoustic maps of specific locations, these pieces eddy and gather into positive physical presences. But Esposito's real strength lies in creating depth of field. The foreground might be dominated by glassy chimes or resonant prayer bowl-like timbres, but beyond it, a series of sonic veils seems to recede towards murky imperceptibility. There's also a kind of surreal decorum at play, passages that sound like an immaculately laid dinner table being shaken by an earth tremor while the tinkling complaints of the silver, glass, and muffling linen are scrupulously recorded. Available for the first time on vinyl, Accidental Music 1987-1991 by Charles Esposito is an exploration into many inner worlds and dreamscapes, an analogue mirage of avant-garde gems. Produced in cooperation with the artist for Mid-Air Museum and chOOn!!. Remastered for vinyl and digital and featuring liner notes from Mark Griffey.

1. Heart Skips a Beat
2. Firewaterwood
3. Hypnotic
4. Hand Dance
5. Piano in Circles
6. Solstice
7. Body on Water
8. In Real Time
9. 11:11 (Make a Wish)
10. Point of View
11. All-1
12. Three Days in Rain

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