Searchlight Moonbeam is the latest gem from Efficient Space, curated by the incredible duo Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney (aka Time Is Away). This compilation is an autumnal dreamscape that joins the ranks of Efficient Space’s earlier triumphs like Sky Girl and Ghost Riders. A true delight for anyone seeking sonic obscurities that whisper of magic and nostalgia. - Hunter
Searchlight Moonbeam is the new narrative compilation from Time Is Away (Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney) whose eponymous monthly NTS Radio shows, tinctured fusions of fugitive sounds and reverie-inducing archival speech, have won them an ardent following. It follows from the London-based duo’s Ballads, a remarkable driftwerk released on A Colourful Storm in 2022.
Searchlight Moonbeam is an autumnal dreamscape, intimate and vespertine, pensive and irresolute. An imagined community where differences drop off and resonances emerge – between Maher Shalal Hash Baz affiliates Kasumi Trio, Taiwanese score composer Chen Ming Chang whose ‘Rainwater’ (written for Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 1986 film Dust In The Wind) is exquisitely heartbroken, and the plangent improvisations of self-taught French pianist Delphine Dora.
Tracklist
- Bo Harwood & John Cassavetes - No One Around To Hear It
- Chen Ming Chang - Rainwater
- Bhairavi Raman & Nanthesh Sivarajah - Bittersweet Reflections
- The King Of Luxembourg - Poptones
- Slapp Happy - Is It You?
- O.G. Jigg - Jesus Is My Jam
- Klang - As It Is
- Scala - Fuser
- Soft Location - Let The Moon Get Into It
- Gyeongsu - YZOBEL (feat. CROCHE)
- Omertà - Moments In Love
- Kasumi Trio - Cabbage Butterfly
- Un - Fast Money Blues
- Delphine Dora - V
- Harry Plunket-Greene - The Hurdy-Gurdy Man