Perils From The Sea is a collaboration between Jimmy LaValle of the Album Leaf and Mark Kozelek. It’s a set of long, somber songs that melds LaValle’s spacious, orchestral electronic instrumentation with Kozelek’s forthright and world-weary vocals. They’re transfixing, often beautiful, sometimes unsettling. The collaboration grew out of mutual admiration. Kozelek had seen LaValle play a few times, both in his old band Tristeza and the Album Leaf, and was impressed; and he is a fan, especially, of Torey’s Distraction, last year’s soundtrack album from the Album Leaf. LaValle will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on him and Kozelek.
LaValle: I’ve been using custom, found, shared and recorded drum samples for ages now. Through the years, I’ve used a handful of different samples to create new samples and resample those as stand-alone new samples. But I’ve recently, in the last year, got into sampling my own keyboards and manipulating them via the NN-XT rack in Reason or Simpler in Ableton. I like both, and they both do the job. I like being able to layer and split different sounds throughout a midi controller. I’ve been sampling voices, violins, trumpets, ambiance, etc.; it becomes very interesting once you turn those sounds into a “synthesizer.”
Video after the jump.
