The fourth album from Droneroom on Somewherecold Records, "Negative Libra" sees Blake Conley once again spins a wonderfully composed long-form piece with an underlying drone. Get your copy of this limited release as soon as possible.
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“Negative Libra” runs 36:36 and is the lone track on the album that bears its name from Las Vegas-based solo-project Droneroom. The flowing work of Blake Conley develops in slow, meditative form and gradually introduces lap steel to shimmer along with its post-landscape etherealities, evocative of cinema as they are without exactly playing to one or the other film-genre tropes. That is to say, Conley isn’t strictly horror soundtracking or Western soundtracking, and so on. Perhaps in part because of that, “Negative Libra” is allowed to discover its path and flourish as it goes — I’m not sure as to the layering process of making it vis-à-vis what was tracked live and put on top after — but the sense of exploration-of-moment that comes through is palpable and serene even as the guitar comes forward just before hitting the 27-minute mark to begin the transition into the song’s noisier payoff and final, concluding hum.
Recorded at House Prom in Louisville Kentucky and Here There Are No Answers in Las Vegas Nevada
edits, eqs, post production, mastering- Jason Lamoreaux
cover illustration by Cory Fusting
Photography by BEC
Photo manipulation by Carlie Rhoads
Album title derived from Don Delillo’s novel Libra.
"You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself" - Barry Hannah
Love and appreciation to- Jessi Wiggers, Jason Lamoreaux, Cory Fusting, Carlie Rhoads, Keith RN Chandler, Zachary Corsa, Joseph Allred, Jeff Jobson, Ben Traughber, Emily Ravenscraft, Mark Kramer (aka Tender Mercy), Cole Morse, Gore, Jeremy Michael Camp, Adrian Voorhies, Brad Frye, Rachel Thode, Sam Scholten, Drew Sherrick, Jacques Grainger, Trevor Evans-Young, Brett Eugene Ralph and Darby, the Powers-Rolin Duo, AJ Kimmel (aka Departure Street)
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