Mountain of Memory’s 13 free-flowing tracks effortlessly encapsulate his entire musical history without sounding forced or overly complicated: Mid-tempo dance grooves, solid boom bap hip-hop beats and calm, reflective tempos blend with electric and acoustic guitars, classical violin, Persian dilruba, cimbaloms, finger snaps, symphonic strings, bubbling water, Latin and African hand
drumming, music boxes, Baroque flutes and opera singers, who add unexpected vocal ornamentations to accent certain melodic phrases. Underlying it all, is the bed of sound Appling produces using electric pianos, ethereal synthesizer washes, processed and almost inaudible vocals, soothing ambient textures and the pulsing of an infinite heartbeat produced by electronic bass tones.
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released April 3, 2020
VINYL / MERCH / BUNDLES:
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All songs written by Douglas Appling
All songs performed by Emancipator
All songs mixed by Douglas Appling
All songs mastered by Nick Moon at Tone Proper Mastering
Additional Contributors:
Asher Fulero: 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14
Benjamin Appling: 7, 11, 12
Cedar Miller: 6
Colby Buckler: 5, 11
Derek Van Scoten: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Gina Sobel: 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14
Ilya Goldberg: 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14
Jessica Iams: 7
Kip Lavie: 1, 4, 12
Marley Carroll: 11
Matthew Philpott-Jones: 1
Nickles D’Onofrio III: 9
Robin Jackson: 4
Thacher Schmid: 6, 7
