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- Summary: The second full-length release for the Oakland, California-based artist with pedal steel guitar features piano by Sarah Davachi.
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- Record Label: Glitterbeat
- Genre(s): Electronic
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UncutMar 3, 2021On The Cinder Grove he has a simple, yet profoundly effective modus operandi - setting streams of notes afloat and listening for the way their resonances commingle with strings and piano. [Mar 2021, p.31]
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Mar 3, 2021While Balsams was supremely confident, something special, The Cinder Grove reaches even further forward and inward at once, arriving on some far-flung shore that is entirely, supremely Johnson’s own.
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MojoMar 3, 2021Further expands ambient pedal steel's possibilities, adding strings and piano. [Mar 2021, p.91]
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Mar 3, 2021The record stretches deeper into a pool of contemplative, ambient-leaning pedal-steel records that’s expanded significantly since Balsams. Based in Oakland, California, Johnson makes inventive use of both space and place on The Cinder Grove.