Back in February we featured 37735i6, an experimental ambient folk project based in Omaha, Nebraska. “[The project] conjur[es] intangible soundscapes that nevertheless possess a palpable weight,” we wrote, “and utilis[es] this contradiction to evoke intricacies of mood and experience that might otherwise be difficult to describe.” 2020 EP stay forever served as the perfect introduction, with its layers of reverb and delay effects “inviting listeners into a liminal space between presence and absence, darkness and light.”
This month sees 37735i6 return with a brand new single, ‘MARBLED BARK’. Continuing to probe at the boundary between ambient and folk, the song nurtures an ethereal yet intimate space into which it releases its poetic lyrics. A cryptic, secretive sphere outside of normal time. A dreamscape of words and images. “Marbled bark / gates of glittering / greet bones and lens,” opens the track. “Boughs of fate / hang ornament suns / high in the sky!” But as the track unfolds, this other region is revealed to be rooted not in the intangibility of dreams but rather nature’s own mysterious processes.
This is brought further into relief by the single’s b-side ‘blissed out’ version. A composition which stretches the original six minutes beyond half an hour, further delving into the slow functions of the natural world.