Sentenced To Love (Limited Edition Version), by Aging

Sentenced To Love (Limited Edition Version)

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1.	Beneath Heaven 07:50
2.	The Trapped Man 07:18
3.	Nights In Amber 07:28
4.	Sentenced To Love 08:12	buy track
5.	The Shadow On My Name 06:35
6.	Cursed With The Thirst 08:41

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Directly influenced by the film noir tradition and the hardboiled detective novels of yesteryear, Aging craft gloom heavy mood music that aspires to create a cinema without image. ‘Sentenced To Love’ is the pinnacle of the band's work.

Led by David McLean, Aging’s fourth album is a direct continuation of the music he was commissioned to make during his 2017 Samarbeta Residency with The Crime Scene Ensemble, a 15 piece band of actors and jazz musicians formed to live soundtrack the short stories of pulp fiction writer and collage artist Phil Carney. Chronicling tales full of obsession, longing, double crosses and murder, the same thematic and melodic gravitas is present in ‘Sentenced To Love’, largely due to a handpicked selection of musicians from Manchester’s avant-garde and experimental music scenes being involved in both.

Whereas previous records by the band have largely been improvised, the six brooding scenes that complete ‘Sentenced To Love’ reveal a new compositional rigour and emotional weight, whilst still retaining pockets of nocturnal improvisation, each carefully crafted to create their own distinct and filmic sound world. From the low lit, dive bar blues of ‘Nights In Amber’ to the gun out chase theme of ‘The Trapped Man’, the nameless cowboy ghost story ‘A Shadow On My Name’ and the redemptive odyssey of ‘Cursed With The Thirst’, Aging’s detailed mise-en-scene full of brass, double bass, simmering drums and reverb drenched guitars conjures the pantheon of noir cinema. This is no truer than on the album’s title track, a vampiric torch song whose crescendo soars with Ali Bell’s lamenting, tremulous vocals, which act as a midnight confession of a doomed romance.

In an age where most musicians are attempting to free themselves from limitations, Aging’s ‘Sentenced To Love’ stands proudly as a genre record, one evoking the tradition of the jazz ballad, designed to swallow the listener into the dark cascade of its drama.

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released May 1, 2020

Mark Hanslip – Tenor Saxophone
Will Lewis-Clarke – Trumpet, Piano
David McLean – Guitar, Piano
Andy Patterson – Double Bass
Jon Perry - Drums
With
Harry Taylor – Guitar
Ali Bell – Voice

Recorded at Club Lit by Jon Perry
Additional recording by Harry Taylor, Mark Hanslip and David McLean
Mixed by Jon Perry & David McLean
Mastered by Tom Platt
Photography by Stuart Southwell
Graphic Design Lewis McLean

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Tombed Visions Records Manchester, UK

Tombed Visions is a Manchester based cassette label specialising in improvisation, ambient music, experimental electronics and noir aesthetics and aims to showcase the fringes of contemporary independent music. All releases are limited edition and packaged with care, combining a love of graphic design, photography, typography with the wondrous sounds released. ... more

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