{"id":836,"date":"2025-05-12T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-vernon-spring-finds-clarity-in-haze\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:00:00","slug":"the-vernon-spring-finds-clarity-in-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-vernon-spring-finds-clarity-in-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vernon Spring Finds Clarity in Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sam Beste has played with Amy Winehouse, Beth Orton, and MF Doom, but as the Vernon Spring, the British pianist-composer-producer takes a more experimental route.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On his second album, Under a Familiar Sun,<\/em> Beste layers, loops, and strings together field recordings, vocal samples, spoken word, and spare piano melodies, forming an allusive\/elusive collage. Beste keeps things short\u2014the album\u2019s 12 tracks average about three minutes in length, but the collision of widely different elements can often make each piece seem like several songs superimposed over each other. The rampant multiplicity never feels schizophrenic or jarring\u2014the tracks often run together or float into each other, with sparse motifs recurring throughout. While the constant shifts can make this music hard to pin down, it carries an emotive warmth that keeps its mysteries approachable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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