Vanishing, by Vanishing

Vanishing

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Customised gatefold artwork, featuring a 3 panel inlay, printed double sided on 300gsm card and enclosed in a resealable plastic sleeve.

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1.	Brighton 84 04:29 video	buy track
2.	Night Vision 04:29	buy track
3.	Fountain 07:49	buy track
4.	The Forger 04:37 video	buy track
5.	The Cleaners 04:44	buy track
6.	Bronze Misnomer 02:59	buy track
7.	The World Paused 03:57	buy track
8.	Glacier 08:21	buy track

about

‘I give you a window, from which I rust.’

Featuring collaborations and contributions by an array of experimental musicians, Vanishing is the sound of blunted beats, stripped electronics and flares of melody, which coruscate around a deep emotional centre; words, that address a world, shifting, breaking, Vanishing.

Vanishing’s stark sound world; unused and archive materials re-contextualised and carefully re-scored into the foundation of differing atmospheres, is at times minimal tenderness, at times beautifully orchestrated passages.

Arranged and structured by Smith, to fit around his impassioned prose, a prose that addresses a complex identity, both beautiful and brutalised, working through a plethora of difficult themes ranging from isolation, claustrophobia, social and political disenfranchisement.

Fitting right into the instantly identifiable heart of the Tombed Visions aesthetic, the album features a stunning, customised gatefold artwork printed on 300gsm card by Lewis McLean.

"One for those of you who hate dark ambient and everything that goes with it and maybe everything in the world… Get ready for noise to meet neo-classical to meet drone to meet random archival sounds as Smith disassembles the idea of soundscape.” - Norman Records

“Gloomy dystopian futurism and industrial rhythms, juxtaposed with striking classical instrumentation and beautifully visceral spoken word segments. It's drone for the uninitiated, classical for people who love a story. Brilliantly immersive and hypnotic, a winner." - Piccadilly Records

"One of their strongest, widest appealing releases to date: Tombed Visions unleash the sepulchral invocations of Gareth Smith’s Vanishing... a proper midnight trip into scorched industrial scapes, given gravity and pathos by Smith’s impending, politicised lyrics. RIYL Ike Yard, Gnod, Einstürzende Neubauten" - Boomkat

“Vanishing is not an exploration of something that has already happened or something that is going to happen but something we are currently enduring. It is a sonic metaphor for how we are refusing to feel right now. The stab of panic late at night when anxiety stalks the hallway outside the door, when no amount of digital distraction will quell the thought, "What have we done?" Smith isn't saying what we're all thinking, he's saying what we're all desperately trying not to think.” - John Doran, The Quietus

credits

released March 31, 2017

Gareth Smith – vocals, synths, piano, percussion
Paddy Shine – beats, samples, piano, spring reverb, synth, saxophone, guitar
Elizabeth Preston – cello
Julie Campbell – cello
Alex Macarte – additional synth
Darren Kaskie – piano
Karl Sveinsson – additional guitar

All tracks recorded and mixed by Vanishing and Karl Sveinsson at Queens Ark
Mastered by Danny Saul
Graphic design by Lewis McLean

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Vanishing Manchester, UK

Based in Manchester, Gareth Smith is an artist and ex-engineer from Hull. Smith assembles music that reflects these industrial roots. Words are his raw material; storytelling, communication that is created, assembled, and reworked until meaning and purpose is found

He creates music, movement pieces and film to help shape a story, using a shifting cast of collaborators, changing with each project ... more

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