Joining two different brands of ethereal sound, former This Will Destroy You guitarist Christopher Royal King and composer Christopher Tignor have released their first song as Disassembler. “In Devotion” combines both of their signature styles into an instrumental swirl of ambience.
“In Devotion” comes from Disassembler’s debut album, A Wave From a Shore, out March 11 on Western Vinyl. The track features a blend of tape loops and synthesized sounds. The collaboration was done entirely digitally between King and Tignor, who live on the West and East Coasts respectively.
“Like the other pieces on Wave, I honed in on melodic and harmonic qualities and then orchestrated it out with a ton of violin tracks and low end string samples,” Tignor says of the track. “I also recorded these quartal piano arpeggios and transformed them with speed/direction shifts. Like the other cuts I tried to listen for the big form of the tune, to find it’s story, give it shape—that harmonic arrival that came out of a gesture from Chris [King’s] original improv. When I heard him go to that chord I knew it would be the big moment, so I used it as such.”
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