Scott Morgan builds "Equivalents" around a simple, beautiful premise: a dialogue with Alfred Stieglitz's cloud photographs from the 1920s, translating the photographer's search for pure emotional form into slow-moving tonal masses and carefully treated piano. The textures are softer and more suspended than Loscil's earlier work, favoring gradual tonal shifts over rhythmic pulse — the usual submerged beats are largely absent here. Each piece holds its shape the way a cloud does: recognizable yet constantly dissolving. It's one of Morgan's most restrained and quietly affecting releases.
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