专辑简介

"Leimer rather composes his pieces, deciding on objects and instruments to be used and as such, occasionally, sounds more modern classical than electronic. But he can, as easily, throw in an element, which sort of disrupts the tranquil space of a piece. An odd sound, a strange mover or mood, but that makes his music quite distinctive and different; and great actually. Leimer's music is not all about easy living room music, but one that requires attention (and hence perhaps is not 'ambient' per se?). It's all quite melodic and gorgeous stuff. An excellent release. " – Vital Weekly

The Grey Catalog departs from Leimer’s typical obsessions with understatement and homogeneity to range freely across rhythmic, melodic, and disassembled forms. Incorporating percussion, electric guitar and bass as well as found sound, digital and analog synthesis and sampled instruments, The Grey Catalog spins off multiple intimations of some earlier works; particularly Closed System Potentials, The Neo-Realist (at Risk) and The Useless Lesson. Compiled over a two-year period, as diverse as the pieces are, they are also related by a shared generative technique and a shared library of voices and processing. The result is an album of highly personal music, restless and shifting forms, with melodic passages drawn over sets of self-regulating sources and shaped by approaches refined over decades of occasionally stumbling across something that might work.