Vessels, by J. Carter

Vessels

by J. Carter

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PadraigC I love the classic style drones, especially the organ elements. I was stoked to discover this is second in a series of three releases! Looking forward to them. That cover image is great too. Favorite track: Vessel III (Feminine Waters).

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	1.	Vessel I (Origins of the Shells) 03:16
	2.	Vessel II (Sparks of the Sacred) 07:54
	3.	Vessel III (Feminine Waters) 04:14
	4.	Vessels IV-IX (Rachel) 11:14
	5.	Vessel X (Falling On Our Faces During the Morning Prayers) 04:34

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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tide-flats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

- William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)

Vaagner is proud to present the third and final installment of Jeremiah M. Carter’s album triptych, ‘Vessels’.

Following ‘Rejoice’ and ‘Speak You Also’, all three albums were conceived within a 6-month period during ferociously exalting creative sessions.

The Emotional turmoil of the early pandemic is as present on ‘Vessels’ as it is in the other two albums, yet the final installment showcases as more distinctive sense of focus, where the earlier albums saw Jeremiah expel a state of uncertainty and trepidation into an intense, almost spiritual form of musical cleansing, Vessels still bears those same hallmarks, yet comes across with an air of refinement and finality.

Spanning 6 pieces, each work feels like an integral part of the album's overarching narrative, fervently nestled amid divinity and humility. By its final piece, which also clocks in as the longest in the entire triptych, we are treated to one of Jeremiah’s finest moments, and for a few seconds, it all comes together for one last swansong, forming a sonic distillation of elation and grief, desire and passion. – It’s all here.

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The third in J. Carter's album trilogy, 'Vessels' is billed as "a sonic distillation of elation and grief, desire and passion", mapping his mood with chiming, digital bells, dusty ambience and billowing orchestral drones.

Brooklyn-based, Nashville-born sound artist Jeremiah M. Carter laid the anxiety and uncertainty of the pandemic on his last two albums. In contrast, 'Vessels' is a relatively cleansing experience, a way for Carter to channel the fear into spiritual focus and levity. That's all very evident on 'Vessel I (Origins of the Shells)', a calming composition that uses delicate synth bells to shuttle our minds to an uncanny sacred space without over egging the pudding.

'Vessel II (Sparks of the Sacred)' is a dirt-rubbed slab of shadowy ambience that sounds like church music dubbed and re-dubbed to cassette tape, before it disintegrates into a showy pipe organ symphony. The lengthy 'Vessels IV-IX (Rachel)' is even more levitational, underpinning granulated strings with rousing sub bass tones and gentle choral blasts, and closing track 'Vessel X (Falling On Our Faces During the Morning Prayers)' sounds funereal, but hopeful, suggesting that another life might be on the horizon.

-Boomkat

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released July 7, 2023

Mastered by Ian Hawgood

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