Gravenhurst

Producing music equally influenced by the English folk of Fairport Convention and Bert Jansch as well as the volatile, textural rock and roll of My Bloody Valentine, Gravenhurst was the brainchild of singer/multi-instrumentalist Nick Talbot. In the middle-’90s, Talbot was therefore taken using the desire pop motion that he relocated to Bristol, house to some from the style’s most visionary rings, including Third Eyesight Foundation and Traveling Saucer Strike. His very own band, Assembly Marketing communications, mined a likewise experimental, ethereal vein and enticed some label interest before among Talbot’s bandmembers was wiped out whenever a car strike him as he was operating his bike. Although band tried to keep regardless of this reduction, in 1999, Set up Communications disbanded. More than the next couple of years, Talbot proved helpful through his grief by founding his very own label, Silent Age group, and concentrating on his very own music. Gravenhurst’s initial record, 2002’s Internal Moves, concentrated on basic but meticulous classical guitar work in conjunction with lyrics motivated by murder ballads, with only a hint from the atmospheric audio of Assembly Marketing communications increasing the music’ haunting beauty. The next season, Talbot released the greater complex, fuller-sounding Flashlight Periods, which attracted the interest of Warp Information, who agreed upon Gravenhurst and re-released the record early in 2004. Afterwards that season, the mini-album Dark Openings in the Fine sand — which highlighted a silently chilling edition of Hüsker Dü’s “Diane” — became Gravenhurst’s initial original discharge for the label. Released in 2005, the one The Velvet Cell and full-length Fires in Distant Structures had been Talbot’s most completely fleshed-out works however, incorporating not merely folk and electronica but large fuzzed-out electrical guitars and chugging Krautrock-influenced rhythms aswell. Gravenhurst backed labelmates Broadcast on the 2005 U.S. tour. The band’s exceptional 2007 record, The Traditional western Lands, leaned even more toward space rock and roll and shoegaze. Using the departure of all of Talbot’s touring music group for various other countries and tasks, he came back to a one-man edition of Gravenhurst for travels and shows at celebrations in the past due 2000s and early 2010s. This process rubbed off on his 4th record, The Ghost in Daylight, which highlighted a few of his most seductive songwriting and smooth mixes of folk, shoegaze, and consumer electronics. Later in 2014, Warp reissued Torch Seasons and Dark Openings in the Fine sand and in addition released Offerings: Shed Tracks 2000-2004, a assortment of previously unreleased early recordings. That Dec, Warp announced that Talbot had passed away at age group 37.