Those Who Walk Away – Afterlife Requiem

Post-classical composer, sound artist, and curator Matthew Patton returns with his second album as Those Who Walk Away. Afterlife Requiem is an elegy to friend and collaborator Jhann Jhannsson. Drone, electroacoustics, and near-silences extracted from unfinished recordings on Jhannsson hard drives, underpin two string quintets-Ghost Orchestra (Reykjavk) and Possible Orchestra (Winnipeg)-processed and erased in a doleful durational work. Patton also works again with Andy Rudolph (Guy Maddin) and Paul Corley (Sigur Rs, Ben Frost) on co-production and sound design, to forge a simmering physicality that juxtaposes roiling low-end with haunting movements of ghostly strings. Everything I have ever written is a Requiem. Everything an ending. Death is smeared all over this music. My work is about disappearance-of the present, the past, of everything. Afterlife Requiem gets slower and slower over it’s duration, it is one huge ritardando, time is not just slowi