K. Leimer
A FIGURE OF LOSS


 

MIDHEAVEN

BOOMKAT

“ Whatever else arrived today, you can bet on the fact that I will be playing the K. Leimer disc first. A Figure of Loss is comprised of eight particularly sad and wonderfully beautiful pieces of ambient music. K. Leimer proves to be one of the best in this field. “ — (FdW) Vital Weekly

A figure of loss takes Leimer’s music into highly personal terrain.  Written and recorded during two dark years, the resulting work hovers in proximity of a calm and placid consistency, tenuously balanced on expanding and contracting foundations. Built mostly around modeled and treated piano and digital synthesis, a sense of coherence emerged from piece to piece during the recording and editing process, yielding a sustained, but disturbed elegiac atmosphere, seemingly content to meditate on its own specific set of limits.  But A figure of loss reaches from well-defined patterns to fragmented and shifting densities.  This is a music of reflection, setting itself at a distance from loss in order to possibly comprehend it.  The CD includes a portfolio of photographs by Tyler Boley and a download code for the entire album. It was mastered by James Savage.  A figure of loss is also available in multiple digital formats.

TRACKS

Sadness carries fatigue
August
Dwell
Individuation
Cautery
This day is the same day
The night dried up
White all red
 

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KERRY LEIMER

Kerry Leimer founded Palace of Lights in 1979. Leimer’s work has also been issued by Abstrakce, Autumn, First Terrace, Les Giants, Invisible Inc., Origin Peoples and RVNG. His work is included in the Cherry Red Noise Floor compilation series and his early cassette work is featured in the critically acclaimed VOD box set American Cassette Culture. Leimer has been actively producing music since the mid 1970s – his current catalog includes 21 solo albums plus collaborative albums with Savant and Marc Barreca. His work is included in the collection of  The British Library.