We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell

by Nick Storring

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Glass-mastered compact disc in gatefold sleeve.

    Includes unlimited streaming of My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 250  47 remaining

      $11 USD or more 

     

  • Purchase a copy of the LP from Orange Milk Records

  • LP for Canadian Customers!
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    LP for Canadian customers!

    International customers: please order from Orange Milk Records — orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/my-magic-dreams-have-lost-their-spell

    Includes unlimited streaming of My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

about

To order LPs please visit: orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/my-magic-dreams-have-lost-their-spell

Media:
Track-by-track on Ohestee: www.ohestee.com/features/track-by-track/track-by-track-nick-storring-my-magic-dreams-have-lost-their-spell/

Video premiere on National Sawdust's Log Journal:
nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2020/02/26/new-music-preview-nick-storring/

Reviews:
Exclaim! — exclaim.ca/music/article/nick_storring-my_magic_dreams_have_lost_their_spell

PopMatters — popmatters.com/nick-storring-my-magic-dreams-2645581517.html

Esoteros — esoteros.net/2020/03/07/weekly-recs-2020-10/

Obladada — obladada.com/2020/02/24/revisio-nick-storring-my-magic-dreams-have-lost-their-spell/

SBVRSV — sbvrsv.press/premiere-nick-storring-pretending-you-and-i/

For the past six years, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring has been generating a unique body of deeply personal work, painstakingly created by layering his own performances on a wide assortment of acoustic and electromechanical instruments. My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell—a heartfelt, albeit oblique, homage to Roberta Flack—is his frst vinyl release and sees his overdub-rich music taking a lush and nocturnal turn. Many of the compositions foreground his primary instrument, the cello, making the connection between his unique approach and orchestral music all the more explicit. While the record is haunted by wistful, introverted romanticism, its repeated hurtlings into psychedelic texture, bent pop-derived shapes, and gestures harvested from the musique concrète lineage, ensure that its trajectory remains a disorienting one.

This is Storring's sixth solo full-length after acclaimed releases on Entr'acte, Notice Recordings, Scissor Tail Editions, Never Anything, and his 2014 Orange Milk tape Endless Conjecture. Winner of the 2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award and the 2008 Jeux De Temps competition for electroacoustic music, his work has been commissioned by leading artists, ensembles, and presenters including Eve Egoyan, Arraymusic, and Montréal's AKOUSMA Festival. A regular collaborator with renowned Canadian choreographers such as Deepti Gupta, Yvonne Ng, and Marie-Josée Chartier, he has also been featured by the Esprit Orchestra, Quatuor Bozzini, Vancouver New Music, Sophia Subayya-Vastek, Harvestworks, and Oxford UK's Audiograft Festival. In 2011 his music travelled alongside "ambient gaming environment" Tentacles when it was mounted in MoMA's Talk To Me exhibit.

credits

released March 27, 2020

Composed, performed, recorded, and mixed in various makeshift home studios by Nick Storring from 2014-18 using exclusively acoustic and electromechanical instruments and very little electronic processing.

Mastered by Sandro Perri

This album pays homage to the music of Roberta Flack. Its titles derive from song lyrics from her repertoire, but any musical resemblances are purely coincidental.

Special thanks to John Kameel Farah and Nicole Cultraro for the use of their instruments; to Christopher Merritt for sending the sarangi; to Mike Haliechuk / Long Winter for commissioning track 4 and getting the ball rolling; to Katrina Orlowski, Peter Hatch, Colin Fisher, and Noah Creshevsky for the feedback; Ellie Anglin for the video; Tomoyuki Fujii; to Nathalia Sanches for the love, patience, listening, and candid reflections; to my mentors (both formal and informal); to my parents; and to Seth Graham and Keith Rankin for making this release happen.

The process behind this work was made possible with a Music Creation grant from the Toronto Arts Council.

Art and layout by Seth Graham

Orange Milk Records, 2020

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Nick Storring Toronto

Nick Storring is a composer and musician residing in Toronto. His music has been presented and performed by Eve Egoyan, Quatuor Bozzini, Beijing's Musicacoustica Festival, AKOUSMA, Arraymusic and appeared on labels such as Entr'acte, Scissor Tail, Notice Recordings and Orange Milk.

"Storring HAS IT, his compositional prowess only eclipsed by his sense of atmosphere and space." -Tiny Mix Tapes
... more

contact / help

Contact Nick Storring

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Nick Storring recommends:

If you like Nick Storring, you may also like: