Patient Hands, solo-project of Saskatchewan based ambient songwriter Alexander Stooshinoff, today shares “No Graves” from his forthcoming album There Are No Graves Here set for release on November 18th. “No Graves” is available now on all music services. Listen/ Share: Patient Hands “No Graves”
The album title came from a recording that a professor of Stooshinoff’s played in class. “I heard the line”, says Stooshinoff, “there are no graves here,” and it stuck with me. The idea of ‘no grave’became a metaphor for feeling like I had no place to bury the past. The past was constantly alive.”
"No Graves" came pretty early on in the album's conception,” explains Stooshinoff’.” I composed it in the fall of 2017. The production was fairly interesting, I think. The piano was sampled acoustically note by note, and I built the chords in post. The modular synth leads in the first half of the track are made of stacks of three sine waves each beating against each other, which I sent through a guitar distortion pedal to turn them into square waves. To create the drone in the latter half of the track, I sampled a sequence of the piano chords and processed them in a granular synthesizer to sort of reinterpret the rhythm and progression. More notably, this is the first track I've ever composed to feature something like spoken word. And to be honest, I'm quite embarrassed about it! But maybe that's a good thing?”
There Are No Graves Here is Patients Hands’ sophomore record and follows from his debut 2019 release Stoic. It is a record of musical aphorisms for heartbreak and homelessness, dying mothers, and all the ambiguity. Patient Hands draws inspiration from artists such as Grouper, Sun Kil Moon, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. A Russian Doukhobor (‘spirit-wrestler’) originally from the Canadian Prairies, Stooshinoff relocated to Montréal in 2015, where he earned a degree in philosophy and electroacoustics before returning to his native Saskatchewan. Early 2020 saw a reissue of Patient Hand’s debut full length album, Stoic, on Japanese label Moorworks, and an accompanying 13-date Japanese tour. There Are No Graves Here will be self-released internationally later this year and via Moorworks in Japan.
Patient Hands’ There Are No Graves Here is out November 18th 2020. Pre-order now