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Species
Artist
Bing & Ruth
Label
4AD
Catalogue Number
4AD0187
Release Date
July 17, 2020

While on a surface level, Species is an exploration of the sonic possibilities of the Farfisa organ, aided only by a clarinet and double bass (played respectively by founding members Jeremy Viner and Jeff Ratner), the title Species is a nod to both humanity and humility – a devotion to the godly intuition with which we are all endowed, and the humbleness required of us to perceive it. It’s also about suspended time and trance; not just a steady movement from A to B, but as something that flows, meanders and eddies, like water.

“I suppose what interested me the most in putting this together was the concept of trance and what can happen to the listener by submitting to the wave of the thing,” Moore explains. “Upon reflection, I suppose what I was moving towards was a way to feel small - a way to feel deeply humble. I had always made music in search of some sort of inner peace, but I no longer cared so much to comfort myself. I’d grown tired, it seemed, of looking inward. I wanted to look nowhere.”

Species, and the transcendental state it embodies, was inspired by two recent loves of Moore’s: the desert and long-distance running. Briefly relocating from his New York base to Point Dume, between the Pacific Ocean and the desert, Moore was able to indulge in both passions, which in turn provided stimulus for new work. He says, “I’d found myself in places unfamiliar enough that I could easily lose all sense of direction, size and, more than anything, all sense of time. The music I was making became a kind of reflection of these intentional detachments - and a place to mirror that feeling of trance that had pushed them out in the first place.”

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Body in a Room 6:10 Buy

    Body in a Room

  2. 2 Badwater Psalm 5:28 Buy

    Badwater Psalm

  3. 3 I Had No Dream 6:35 Buy

    I Had No Dream

  4. 4 Blood Harmony 2:03 Buy

    Blood Harmony

  5. 5 Live Forever 13:02 Buy

    Live Forever

  6. 6 The Pressure of this Water 10:25 Buy

    The Pressure of this Water

  7. 7 Nearer 4:35 Buy

    Nearer

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