Grant Evans

STM 015 is a sweeping musical compilation that consists of ten drone and ambient music records mainly made by the skilled emerging artists.

The author of the mix is Grant Evans, better known as Nova Scotian Arms, an American electronic music producer, musician and curator born in 1985 in Johnson City, Tennessee. After releasing more than ten full-length official albums on record labels such as Digitalis, Dial Square Tapes, Preservation, Sonic Meditations, Grant proved his well-balanced productivity. He is a co-curator of “Hooker Vision”, a cassette label which he runs with his wife Rachel Evans (known as Motion Sickness Of Time Travel). Grant also participates in the “Quiet Evenings” band amongst the other projects.

In the records

STM 015 is an impressive musical selection which consists of 10 intentionally selected records. The basis stands on the extensive ambience which gently encloses all reverberating melodic textures. Dramatic landscape is created by sharply shaped noisy atmospheres which occasionally reincarnate to profound relaxing tones. The development of the mix is observant and tranquil. The lower layer is enriched with various rustles and crackles that help to preserve hypnotizing attention till the last consonance.

STM 015 is like the scrupulous abstract painter Agnes Martin’s works where emphasis is focused on the line, dense grids and fields of extremely subtle colors.