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Black Coral Sprig

by Talk West

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    LP in resealable sleeves. Limited edition of 200

    Includes digital pre-order of Black Coral Sprig. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases May 5, 2023
    item ships out on or around May 14, 2023
    edition of 200 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Black Coral Sprig. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases May 5, 2023

      $10 USD  or more

     

1.
Light Black
2.
Set Adrift
3.
Willow and the Dogwood 11:10
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4.
Gladys 02:45
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5.
Dark White
6.
Solitary Blossoms 04:02
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7.
Abode

about

Talk West has forged a small series of intriguing and beautiful missives through the cassette underground with his explorations on guitar and pedal steel. On Black Coral Sprig, Aycock negotiates the terrain between stately and homely by stretching a ringing country tone into an all-encompassing atmosphere, much like the ambient realms of Stars of the Lid. His unhurried, gentle playing style comes to reveal understated textures that weave into a whole alternately spirited, warming and often haunting. It’s a singular style reminiscent of Loren Connor’s astral-blues and Bruce Langhorne’s famed soundtrack for The Hired Hand, which, tellingly, was reissued in 2012 on Aycock’s own Scissor Tail Editions. These spectral, cinematic soundscapes are a future vision of the guitar’s past.

"Serene shades of Loren Connors and Bruce Langhorne's The Hired Hand in Dylan Aycock's (Talk West) Black Coral Sprig" - MOJO

Coming off like a post-rock Loren Connors, Tulsa's Dylan Aycock (a.k.a. Talk West) plays a sort of disconnected blues, sparse and twinkly and replete with the American guitar idioms we all know and love. On the eleven-minute "Willow and The Dogwood," from Talk West's upcoming debut LP, Black Coral Sprig, tape hiss fills in the negative space between Aycock's melodic noodling, making for a warm atmosphere that hints at the anthemic aspirations of and act like, say, Explosions In The Sky, without the arena-filling histrionics. "Willow and The Dogwood" is subtle and restrained-- uplifting, certainly, but not as straightforward. It would have worked well in an episode of Friday Night Lights. -Adhoc

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releases May 5, 2023

Video Here:
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Live Video Snippet Here:
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Music by Talk West
Mastered by Mark Kuykendall
Artwork by Joe Cappa

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