Scallions, by Scallions

Scallions

by Scallions

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danchelotti I love this record. First time I heard it - it helped me complete an impossible drive away from a tough goodbye. I regularly turn to it when I must get something done - like the pile of composition essays I must complete today. But it is also so lovely in the backdrop of conversation - the settings therein. Music of mind. Favorite track: Translucent Rhythm.

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1.	Eating Grass 03:36	buy track
2.	Having Hands 05:34	buy track
3.	Descendent 05:16	buy track
4.	Breeze Recess 02:42	buy track
5.	I'll See You Soon 04:20	buy track
6.	Translucent Rhythm 04:20	buy track
7.	Curious Ghost 02:53	buy track
8.	A Sea Turned On Its Side 07:11	buy track
9.	Solaris Meadow 06:56	buy track
10.	Vowel Glider 03:28	buy track

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Scallions is the creation of Denver poet & artist, Brian Foley. The debut album was recently released on 4.30.2021.

The purpose of Scallions is to create sentimental melodies & pleasant environmental music as imagined through the Synthesize Eye. The sounds as heard on the eponymous debut are intended to improve a state-of-being and proprioception for the listener around the edges of a living space; to offer a point of view, but not an argument.

Thus, Scallions is hopeful to be held as a music of use, and is recommended to assist experiences of reading, writing, walking, cooking, visiting, smoking, sitting, gardening, and card playing.

Scallions takes its inspiration from 80’s Japanese Environmental Music composers such as Hiroshi Yoshimura, Harumi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Fumio Miyashita, as well as 70’s kosmische music composers like Hans-Joachim Roedelius.

Brian Foley is an artist and professor of ethics living in Denver. His first collection of poems, The Constitution, was released by Black Ocean books in 2014. His second collection, There Must Be A Reason People Come Here, will be released by Black Ocean in 2022.

His work has been called by Greg Bem of Poetry Northwest, “a book of lessons, a book of learning how to become one with what is known and unknown. The first epiphany: that we each have our own body. We are individual. The second: that we must understand it. To Foley, our body is a universal placard of self-definition. What is health? What is our constitution? By coming to know our limits and our place in the world, we know our humanity, our personal composition.”

Scallions aims to continue the work of these lessons, this time using sonic language instead of linguistic expressions.

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released April 30, 2021

Recorded February-April, 2021

All sounds by Brian Foley

Album artwork: Motoi Ichihara

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Scallions Denver, Colorado

Scallions (n) late 14c., "kind of onion," also "thing of little value".

Scallions is the creation of Denver poet & artist, Brian Foley. Scallions' purpose is to create sentimental melodies & pleasant environmental music as imagined through the synthesized eye.

These sounds are intended to improve the edges of a living space for the listener; to offer a point of view, but not an argument. ... more

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