Loscil - City Hospital

Intervalo is the result of a collaboration between Seattle pianist Kelly Wyse and Vancouver's loscil. Culminating from two live performances in 2012, first at Seattle's Substrata Festival and later at Decibel Festival, these recordings were made in Seattle to capture the collaboration. This collection features reworked versions of familiar loscil compositions such as Endless Falls and Hastings Sunrise along side unique versions of rarer compositions such as Rye Fields and City Hospital.

[@EpicSelenium34]

It would be so cool to have a version of this with just the first ~4 minutes-the crescendo… the water-it's unlike anything I've ever heard. I could only describe it as a mental state but put into music. Loscil is fking brilliant.

[@elliet9404]

I love how the music unfolds and develops. It breathes, backing off and then building once again. I also love the subtlety changing harmonies. Brilliant work🙂

[@joshuatunis6732]

The first segment from 0:00 - 0:20 reminds me so much of the various, passive mechanical ambient sounds heard from Half-Life 2.

[@nb85]

This is so good. Very filmic.

[@loungebox4996]

MASTERPIECE.

[@Migaloo00]

this the kinda music that makes me want to float endlessly until i reach space and suffocate

[@nyclurker603]

That's exactly it man.

[@the_real_vdegenne]

Me too.... eh.. not the suffocate part.

[@nyclurker603]

three years later and I still think about this comment a lot.

[@TheFootballPlaya]

Part of directing any sort of emotion with an audience is working against the expected...who ever said "expect the unexpected" fits the cause of showing this in such an abrupt way expecting that people would tie this in to some sort of depressive motif. The art is that it doesn't entail that entire thing. Art really is an "agree to disagree" idea. That because these tones are about mysterious and lingering that one would tie it into a vague statement for theatrical effect. think of great directors and movies, who would of thought that a backwards thought process would have such an effect on how people think. An idea that has existed in movies for a while. That something so obscure and misleading would draw somebody into a certain effect given a story line, given a character, given a grasp of writing within character. This is just a song. This is a masterpiece. I'd be more interested in the visuals presented in this piece.

[@lightyagami1058]

Synethesia.

[@salvatorefanara482]

nice great track

[@Sirhumblr]

Nice very nice

[@darienwilliams7038]

Peer Gynt! wonderful

[@nicedoggy2744]

just finished lunar cuastic (the lowry story which this piece was writtten to supposedly provide the musical accompaniment). two powerful works of art.

[@soroushrezvan]

Has loscill ever "cited" that he has taken the solo piano melody from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No.1?

[@jimnicosia7046]

The piano would have been Kellye Wise's contribution, by the way.

[@michaelrooney7473]

where can you purchase this? it is not on itunes or amazon. please let us know-great music-

[@VladyslavKL]

🕊

[@plastikman30]

Loscil's bandcamp page

[@something_nothing]

google youtube to mp3

[@mjc71189]

Inspired by Chopin?

[@rr7firefly]

I usually like Loscil's work but this is not one of their best. The beginning of this piece was interesting, even promising. Until I got to the obvious retreading of Grieg's "Peer Gynt" (The Death of Åse).

[@nicedoggy2744]

in malcom lowry's lunar caustic (which this loscil collabration is supposed to musically accompany), the main character plantagenet plays death of ase on the hospital piano, so that is probably why they 'retread' that song here