{"product_id":"mark-molnar-exo-lp-preorder-ships-june-06-2025","title":"Mark Molnar - Exo LP  (Preorder: Ships June 06, 2025) ( VINYL )","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Please note: This title will ship on or around its release date June 06, 2025. Date and availability is subject to change. We will ship all items in your order when the last title is released and available – so if you would like anything else on your order shipped separately, please place separate orders. Thank you. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Molnar has been a linchpin of the Ottawa experimental music scene for over two decades,\r\nspanning contemporary classical, electroacoustic, industrial\/noise, and improv. As a string player\r\nin a wide range of projects, an organizer and curator of innumerable shows, and via his own avantgarde label Black Bough Records, Molnar's unflagging contributions to independent music culture\r\nin Canada's capital city have been significant. EXO is his Constellation debut: a remarkable and\r\nbracing suite of post-classical composition on which Molnar plays every instrument. Meticulously\r\nself-recorded, primarily with strings, harp, and piano, EXO balances thematic melodicism,\r\npolytonality, and dissonance across three elegiac pieces of exquisitely expressive dynamism. This\r\nis exacting modern chamber music that blends formal and harmonic complexity with a solemn\r\nemotive sensibility accessible to a broad audience. Listeners that yearn for some edge and\r\ndisquietude in a landscape of often all-too-approachable post-classical music should find EXO\r\neminently worth their time and attention.\r\nWhile Molnar is a highly trained string player, and studied music under Aubrey Wolfe, microtonality\r\nwith James Tenney, and composition with R. Murray Schafer, his trajectory has been entirely and\r\nintentionally outside the academy, signalling a socio-artistic commitment to DIY culture, forged\r\nfrom an early passion for the sonic worlds of post-hardcore, post-punk, no-wave, free improv, power\r\nelectronics, and other independent\/underground musics. His classically-informed works have been\r\ndescribed as \"tense currents of musical modernism invigorated with punk's raw vitality.\" EXO carries\r\nan undercurrent influenced by dark industrial and ambient metal in particular, with microphones\r\npurposely placed to pick up the low-end frequencies of the piano body, and of a bass drum\r\npositioned as a resonant skin in the acoustic space; an electroacoustic strategy organically meshed\r\nto the crisply defined and pristinely recorded pointillisms and polychords of strings, harp, and piano,\r\nwhich feed into this noisefloor of crepuscular sub-bass disquietude and decay. It's a production\r\naesthetic that lends EXO a distinct undertow of tension and feeling, a sort of roiling maximalism\r\nwhere the chamber instrumentation traces arcs and waves of form and flow as if drawn from a dark,\r\nimpervious ocean below. It also reinforces the profound hermeticism of Molnar's process, as a\r\nforbiddingly solitary creative act of immersion and navigation. The album artwork, featuring semiabstract stills of the sea by British photographer Ed Allen, further reifies this metaphor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel: Constellation\u003cbr\u003eUPC: 666561018511\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: June 06, 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSub Luna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Terre Sacer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e pallida Mors - Disquiet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e pallida Mors - Aporia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e pallida Mors - Patior\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"02- Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56736088031605,"sku":"666561018511","price":4.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8300\/2485\/files\/4419157-3380623.jpg?v=1770955780","url":"https:\/\/warmvibevinyls.com\/products\/mark-molnar-exo-lp-preorder-ships-june-06-2025","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}