Hosts Of Living Forms, by The Lifted Index

Hosts Of Living Forms

by The Lifted Index

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Samuel Death (tides) Truly inspiring. A magical journey through delicate and beautifully heartfelt harmony Favorite track: Carbon Cycling.

davabee A delightful coalescence of sonic textures, the sum of which shines somewhere to the beyond.

editions vaché As the title states- pieces that span life to death, and back to rebirth...using systems that alter and regenerate, Lifted Index creates living, breathing works that bring into focus the beautiful fragility of life - and that is an ambition of music in general, but not easily accomplished. These do, and we are better for them.... ss/am/tm Favorite track: Collected, Worn Away.

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	1.	Collected, Worn Away 03:44
	2.	In Stones and Trees, The Bones of Things 04:00
	3.	Carbon Cycling 05:04
	4.	Anteclock 07:27
	5.	Chronologic Moss 04:29
	6.	Suffused with the Light of the Stars 06:36
	7.	Eluvium Repose 03:02
	8.	Taphonomic Filter 07:19

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Hosts of Living Forms: A meditation on our interconnected world, death, rebirth, and the ever present afterlife.

"The album was inspired by the life cycle: death, decay, decomposition, growth. I was thinking a lot about how we are connected to each other through our shared experience of living on the earth; how we are connected to the past through the earth, quite literally.

It struck me, how beautiful that idea is, and how starkly it contrasts with the way we think about the earth. I’m talking strictly about dirt here, soil. It’s not something we want on us, not something we want in our houses. We do so much to try and distance ourselves from it. But while nobody fully knows what happens to us when we die, we do know that our bodies remain, rejoin the earth, break down and feed this cycle of life."

-The Lifted Index

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released December 1, 2021

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"Having debuted in mid-2021 with a cassette-only mini-album, the admirable but hard-to-find Sell, mysterious, Atlanta-based ambient outfit The Lifted Index delivers its debut album proper on Past Inside The Present. Described by its creators as "a mediation on our interconnected world", Hosts of Living Form was reportedly inspired by a combination of the life cycle of plant life (in their words, "death, decay, decomposition, growth"). Musically, it's a quietly picturesque affair in which ambient electronics, crackling aural textures, effects-laden pianos and the Duratti Column style guitar sounds ebb and flow to create fluid, organic soundscapes. It's all quietly impressive, but at its finest - such as on 'In Stones & Trees, The Bones of Things', and the lilting 'Eluvium Repose' - the album is genuinely breath-taking."

-Juno Records

Written and produced by The Lifted Index
Recorded and mixed in Atlanta (GA/US)
Mastered at SDS Studio (WA/US) by Drew Sullivan
Photography by ambalek
Design and layout by zakè

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