Marble Sky

Limited to a mere 15 copies, the original Marble Sky cassette is definitely an album which has been talked about more than actually heard. Released in 2007 by the Callow God label, and dedicated to "several friends passing through and across,"The Sad Return" finds Impregnable's Jeff Witscher conjuring devastatingly beautiful tidepools of romantic, nostalgic drone music. As evidenced by the surge of placid, warm Impregnable recordings which began turning up midway through 2007, Witscher has become increasingly interested in lulling ambient music - a move which is in sharp contrast to his earlier, blisteringly harsh noise work with Impregnable. After hearing the cassette, we knew that this was material that demanded a larger audience and we're thrilled to present the original material along with 20 minutes of new recordings. Listening to "The Sad Return" is akin to staring out into a grey horizon on a late autumn day. "Pulling Out Grass Under a Blanket" is a smear of beautifully evolving, evocative tones wrung from guitar and synthesizer. Witscher's attention to detail and pacing is marvelous, as wisps of choral drones weave in and out of warm gushes of washed out synth discharge. Later, on "What You Might Forget," surges of static threaten to unhinge a romantic dronework that brings to mind the levitating vistas of Mirror at their most poignant. Elsewhere, Witscher channels the glacial synth studies of Elaine Radigue into a myriad of focused, devotional dreamstates akin to the dayglo analog string fantastias put forth by Stars of the Lid circa "Avec-Laudenum." Ultimately, Marble Sky stands as Witscher's opus: a strikingly wrought meditation on sadness, love and the depths of memory. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.