Threads Tim Story SKU: 20.00 22.00 £20.00 - £22.00 £20.00 - £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dais Released Date: 15th January 2021 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Threads quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The saga of composer Tim Story’s 1982 debut is a case study in the shifting sands of the early progressive music industry. Recorded on a Tascam 4-track reel-to-reel in his basement bedroom in Whitehouse, Ohio using a ragtag array of equipment – salvaged vibraphone, pawn shop Les Paul, his mother’s spinet piano, a PAiA synth kit assembled by his girlfriend’s father, and a Yamaha CS-30 – Story optimistically dubbed six cassettes and sent them around the world. Following a polite rejection from Klaus Schulze, the French avant-garde label Atem (This Heat, Univers Zero, Art Zoyd) reached out with an offer to release Threads via their new instrumental electronic subdivision, Labyrinthes. After several letters confirming terms of the arrangement as well as multiple rounds of test pressings, correspondence suddenly ceased. Some months later the label folded, never having begun. Synchronistically, however, Schulze’s copy ended up in the glovebox of an engineer associate, who happened to play it for a couple visiting journalists with contacts at a newish Norwegian imprint, Uniton Records (Popul Vuh, Harold Budd). Impressed, they connected Story to the label head, but by then he’d already recorded a follow-up, the more neoclassical-leaning In Another Country, which became his inaugural release. Finally, 40 years later, Dais Records is rectifying history’s error by properly issuing Threads on vinyl for the first time. It’s a beautiful, beguiling work, exploratory but emotive, documenting, as Story puts it, “the path not taken… like the first chapter of a book that was set aside to begin another.” Despite only being in his early twenties at the time of its creation, Threads feels finessed and considered, weaving through a diverse spectrum of moods and minimalist melodies. From sunburst synthesizer devotionals (“Tethered By A Thread”) to shadowy cosmic drift (“Without Waves,” “Iso”) to fragile piano vignettes (“Burst,” “Scene And Artifact”), Story’s compositional instincts skew subtle and sophisticated, carving gemstones of fluctuating radiance. He cites his discovery of tape loops as a central tool in the process, allowing him to generate recurring patterns of echoes and texture, decaying in volume and fidelity as desired: “A whole new and inspiring world opened up.” As both time capsule and discographical fountainhead, Threads vividly captures the threshold sensation of early 1980’s electronic music: post-kosmische, prenew age, before ambient became codified, just as synthesizers began slipstreaming into the underground. It’s an album of beginnings and forking paths, inner space voyaging towards limitless horizons, born of “youthful dedication to something one loves, in a world that feels uncertain.” • First ever vinyl edition, originally set to be released in 1982 but due to original label’s untimely demise, it was never issued until now. • Collaborative releases with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dwight Ashley, with releases on notable labels Uniton, Windham Hill, and Hearts of Space. • For fans of Harold Budd, Brian Eno, Roedelius, Nils Frahm, Klaus Schulze, Popol Vuh, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre • The song “A Thousand Whispers” has been in regular rotation at Sirius XM. • Tim Story is a Grammy nominated artist in 1988 for his “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” recording with Glenn Close. Artist Tim Story Genre Electronica Label Dais Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Tethered by a Thread The Moors Burst A Thousand Whispers Scene and Artifact Without Waves Iso Reprise Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Electronica View Product Quick View TSHA OnlyL Electronica | Ninja Tune | 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released 27th August 2021 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders TSHA OnlyL £12.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN12579 Formats: 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 27th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hardy Tree, The The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath Electronica | Clay Pipe Music | 1LP Released 26th February 2021 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hardy Tree, The The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Clay Pipe Music SKU: PIPE001_03 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things 2 Electronica | Invada | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 1st December 2017 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things 2 £28.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Invada SKU: LSINV194LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 1st December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pantha Du Prince Garden Gaia Electronica | Modern Recordings | 2LP Released 14th October 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pantha Du Prince Garden Gaia £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Modern Recordings SKU: 4050538792515 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Luca Yupanqui Conversations Electronica | Sacred Bones Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th September 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Luca Yupanqui Conversations £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Sacred Bones Records SKU: SBR294LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Caribou Never Come Back (Four Tet & Morgan Geist Remixes) Electronica | City Slang | 12", Single Released 31st July 2020 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Caribou Never Come Back (Four Tet & Morgan Geist Remixes) £13.00 Genre: Electronica Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50298 Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 31st July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Phantoms This Can’t Be Everything Electronica | Foreign Family Collective | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th August 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Phantoms This Can’t Be Everything £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Foreign Family Collective SKU: FFC113 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emil Amos Zone Black Electronica | Drag City | 1LP Released 4th August 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emil Amos Zone Black £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Drag City SKU: DC873 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bonobo Migration Electronica | Ninja Tune | 2LP Released 13th January 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bonobo Migration £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN236 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 13th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nicolas Godin Contrepoint Indie Exclusive 180g Blue Vinyl Electronica | Because Music | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released 14th September 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nicolas Godin Contrepoint Indie Exclusive 180g Blue Vinyl £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Because Music SKU: 5060421561707 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released Date: 14th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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