Sharp, Jason / A Boat Upon Its Blood
Album: A Boat Upon Its Blood   Collection:General
Artist:Sharp, Jason   Added:Nov 2016
Label:Constellation Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2016-11-02 Pull Date: 2017-01-04 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Dec 4 Nov 20 Nov 13 Nov 6
Airplays: 1 1 2 3

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 14, 2017: Life Aquatic (Best of '16, part 2)
A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 1
4. Nov 12, 2016: Music Casserole
Still I Sit, With You Inside Me, Pt. 2
2. Dec 03, 2016: Life Aquatic
Still I Sit, With You Inside Me, Pt. 1
5. Nov 08, 2016: Magnetized Toner
A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 3
3. Nov 15, 2016: Waste FM
A Blast At Best
6. Nov 05, 2016: Life Aquatic
A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 2, A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 1

Album Review
DJ Aporia
Reviewed 2016-11-02
Gloomy, pulsing “post-jazz experimental.” Sax/violin/pedal steel + drone. From Constellation Records: “Taking its title(s) from Robert Creeley’s poem ‘The Heart’, A Boat Upon Its Blood deploys the human metronome of amplified pulse as a recurring undercurrent, with compositions that incorporate electro-acoustic and musique concrète strategies, drone, noise, electronics, methodical dissonance, tone poem, layered rhythmic and melodic figures, and improvisation.”

1. (5:34) *** A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 1—Fluttering strings, cavernous bassy drones, the human heart brimming with life
2. (7:13) A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 2—Dissonant sax and violin in a twisted funeral march
3. (5:28) **** A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 3—Rustling dissonance belies a peaceful drone, two minutes in we get a pounding beat and skittering synths, ends in pure insanity
4. (3:02) In the Construction of the Chest, There is a Heart—Hissing glitching noise
5. (3:48) ** A Blast at Best—Noisy free jazz
6. (8:24) *** Still I Sit, With You Inside Me, Pt. 1—Soft, cosmic strings and a tense heartbeat. Sounds of water added in last few minutes
7. (4:33) ** Still I Sit, With You Inside Me, Pt. 2—Violin and pedal steel drown into noisy synths, drum machine, ends dissonant

Track Listing
1. A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 1   4. In The Construction Of The Chest, There Is A Heart
2. A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 2   5. A Blast At Best
3. A Boat Upon Its Blood, Pt. 3   6. Still I Sit, With You Inside Me, Pt. 1
  7. Still I Sit, With You Inside Me, Pt. 2