Roots & Ripples, by Wilhelm Matthies & Reid Karris

Roots & Ripples

by Wilhelm Matthies & Reid Karris

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1.	log over stream, branch on shore 04:21	buy track
2.	truncated roots, light passes through ripples 09:59	buy track
3.	a collection of smooth colored river stones 05:12
4.	crackles and mumbles, silt merges into roots 09:59
5.	ripples, enclose leaves, roots search for soil 08:31
6.	lie down in the dirt and let the earth slowly reclaim you 05:18

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This was an internet collaboration with each individual recording three tracks and then files were exchanged and added to by the other. Recording took place between March 2018 and January 2019.

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released October 29, 2019

Wilhelm Matthies - percussion and mosesas 9, 10 and 11.
Reid Karris - bells, metal bowls, percussion and skatchbox

artwork by Wilhelm Matthies

The mosesa instruments are instruments that Wilhelm is developing. They are horizontally oriented 2 and 3 stringed instruments using electric and electric bass strings and bowed with erhu and contra bass bows.

Reid’s instrument called the “skatchbox” are variously textured items attached cardboard boxes, played with modified combs and amplified using contact microphones.

originally release by Pan Y Rosas Discos - pyr_272

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Reid Karris Chicago, Illinois

Reid Karris is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound experimentalist and improviser hailing from Chicago Illinois trying very hard to get all the music stuck in his head out for all the world to hear.

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