Lost Trail - .​.​. à séjourner dans cette chambre toujours (2014)

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Lost Trail is the ambient/dronegaze/experimental noise project of husband-and-wife duo Zachary Corsa and Denny Wilkerson Corsa. Based in the mysterious small city of Burlington, North Carolina, The Corsas utilize lo-fi and obsolete recording technology in their music, aiming to capture a sense of atmosphere and landscape in both man-made and wild environments. Working primarily with second-hand analog equipment, their work is a vivid patchwork collage of damaged cassette loops, field recordings, primitive percussion, layers of ethereal guitar drones, wailing feedback and static, and skeletal traces of antique piano and organ. The themes of Lost Trail's work often include a sense of the otherworldly or supernatural, as well as strong ties to nature, human calamity, and a fascination with the concept of passionate belief systems. The songs themselves are raw, broken, minimalist, imperfect, emotionally resounding and chaotically unpredictable, all composed in the spirit of reckless, heedless improvisation.
Lost Trail is often a multimedia endeavor, and both members contribute poetry, photography, visual art and experimental film to their material, all while maintaining a fiercely self-sufficient DIY aesthetic. The Corsas have toured the bulk of the United States, released scores of cassette, vinyl and CD editions on numerous national and international labels, and have had their work acclaimed by publications such as Pitchfork, The Wire, Tiny Mix Tapes, Decoder, Headphone Commute, Ad Hoc, Microphones In The Trees, Impose, Fluid Radio, Flashlight Tag, Textura, Vital Weekly and many more.


"Burlington, NC ambient duo Lost Trail deconstruct source material captured at will from the town and surrounding landscape to form miniature vignettes, highlighting the beauty in nature's imperfect abstractions…The pattern becomes trance-like, akin to watching pylons reflected in frosted windows on a car ride through a particularly peculiar stretch of countryside." - Pitchfork
 

"If this sounds a tad hauntological, then it's with good reason. Of all the US acts attempting their own equivalent to the memoradelic experimentation of Ghost Box, et. al, Lost Trail are the most honest and convincing. Ranging from roaring fields of fuzz to spectral drone…impresses with its commitment to a singular, haunted vision." - The Wire

"What I think they really do is just progress the sounds that Mono, Godspeed, Yellow Swans, and Explosions in the Sky did: posted rock in the post-sense. Mayyyybe even that one dude who did them tape loops while the twin towers were burning down and just sat and watched. Only Lost Trail goes for the gold…" - Tiny Mix Tapes

"It’s beautiful music, almost serene, and it’s the ethereal aura that makes it beautiful…Lost Trail’s recordings are a passionate documentary as much as they are music, coughing out the past through cassette machines and portable digital recorders." - Fluid Radio

"Lost Trail has stayed relevant by refusing to stay too long in the same sonic space…Serene ambient passages that are nonetheless eerie in their sound lie against the light hiss of nostalgia. ..Lost Trail will haunt you with their beautiful desolation…The timing, frequency and nature of variations throughout the album is something to be marveled at…Every section is masterfully crafted and to think that it was all improvised in the space of one night deserves even more praise…an experience that should be fully appreciated, uninterrupted, listened to and savored then replayed and dissected to come to reach even further appreciation…Lost Trail conceal angels in the gutter, wounded with broken wings and lost opportunities waiting to be found. The gorgeous ambience bleeds a thin trace of musical melancholia, although it is never overt; she breathes quietly, a shushed town in a state of constant flux…A ghost box isn’t required to conjure voices from beyond; the music is more than capable…Ambient drone such as this is a spiritual experience." - A Closer Listen

"Likely the most beautiful drone album of 2013; it is wonderfully haunted, hopeful, and organic…a mysterious venture into springtime rebirth in rural America. - Heathen Harvest

"Recorded in a shed in rural Efland, North Carolina in fall of 2012, Blacked Out Passages threads guitars, piano, field recordings, noise, synths, organs, and percussion into gritty, sometimes hallucinatory dreamscapes within which disembodied voices and alien sounds surface alongside earthbound electric guitar shadings and keyboards. Though the recording, effectively structured and concise, frames two seven-minute pieces with two longer ones, the album really plays like one extended piece, despite the indexing and brief pauses separating the tracks from one another." - Textura

"Eerie and dreamlike, one of those third person shooter POVs where you're watching the back of your head saunter past the wreckage that is the follies of your youth." - Impose

"Some of the compositions remind me a bit of the softer side of Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the tracks where a melody slowly soars over an apocalyptic message heard through an old radio. Additional industrial sounds, noise, breaking dishes, and even some World War II sirens, create a collage of avant-garde patches stitched together into a fuzzy blanket for a restless ghost. These monochrome sounds float in the air like confetti of an abstract painting, until they slowly settle down on the creaking wooden floor, and as if by magic, arrange themselves into one solid piece." - Headphone Commute

"Awesome and perfect for watching and listening to the death of summer and the arrival of the winter…What is different to other ambient drone stuff? These guys somehow intrigue and capture the imagination…Hypnotic and masterful. What heartens me the most is that this is yet another example of artists who are fearless. Not famous, hidden, yet incredibly good." - Sloucher

"Yet another brilliant piece of nighttime ambience…chillingly gorgeous…" - Flashlight Tag

"(Lost Trail) approach music thoughtfully and rather unconventionally, like a writer composing an imagist poem with sound." - SSG

"It can be a thin music, like a sheet hung in a dark, moonlit room. As the wind caresses the fabric, it undulates and dances. You can touch it and it will give, perhaps betraying a hint of what’s on the other side. What is on the other side is part up to you, part out of your hands. Either way it’s worth exploring." - Fabricoh

"Further investigation revealed an outfit whose audiovisual aesthetic, encompassing music, films, writing and photography, was complete, self-contained, and utterly absorbing. We’ve been toying with the term ‘Disembodied Americana’ as a means of describing husband and wife Zachary and Denny Corsa’s spectral tape explorations. In truth, seeking or inventing the ‘correct’ category for this music is considerably less rewarding than surrendering to its distressed drift, tuning in to the disconnected voices beckoning through the fog." - The Outer Church

"Lost Trail is a truly realized idea and an inspirational project…As with any good ambient music, it portrays an epically vibrant atmosphere which is tasty and fulfilling. Not one note or captured moment of this collage sounds tired, bored or uninspired. A truly delicious experience, and a highly recommended album!…I cannot wait to hear more from Lost Trail." - Eternity Tree

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16381-october-lights-and-fields-pt-1/
The Wire, August 2013 issue
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-lost-trail-how-an-absence-creates-a-presence
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-lost-trail-pages-from-the-alamance-hymnal
http://theoriginalouterchurch.tumblr.com/post/39415666338
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/12/ten-from-james/
https://foreignaccentspdx.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/new-album-review-lost-trail-one-day-well-all-walk-outside-and-stare-up-at-the-blameless-sky-and-wait-for-something-to-happen/
http://heathenharvest.org/2014/11/07/lost-trail-the-afternoon-vision/
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2014/09/lost-trail/
http://heathenharvest.org/2013/10/31/lost-trail-holy-ring-of-chalk/
http://www.vitalweekly.net/918.html
http://www.vitalweekly.net/950.html
http://www.secretdecoder.net/blog/2014/12/15/lost-trail-the-afternoon-vision/
http://acloserlisten.com/2014/12/15/acl-2014-top-ten-drone/
http://www.tabsout.com/?p=7996
http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2014/11/23/lost-trail-the-afternoon-vision/
http://acloserlisten.com/2014/10/13/best-music-for-haunted-houses/
http://acloserlisten.com/2014/09/21/lost-trail-the-afternoon-vision/
http://www.tabsout.com/tabs-out-top-200-tapes-of-2014/
http://adhoc.fm/post/who-has-tapes-anymore-12/
http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2015/01/18/lost-trail-one-day-well-all-walk-outside-and-stare-up-at-the-blameless-sky/
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2014/10/14/insertion-loss/
http://cinyf.wordpress.com/reviews/lost-trail-mountain-wanderers/
http://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/music/8620
http://heathenharvest.org/2014/06/22/lost-trail-blacked-out-passages/
http://tapefamous.com/post/79085906326/right-now-and-for-a-long-time-lost-trail-have
https://eternitytr33.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/one-day-well-all-walk-outside-and-stare-up-at-the-blameless-sky-and-wait-for-something-to-happen-by-lost-trail/
http://tapefamous.com/post/83421231605/what-are-the-direct-positions-assigned-to-each
http://www.textura.org/reviews/losttrail_blackedoutpassages.htm
http://acloserlisten.com/2014/06/27/pines-a-spirit-lost-trail-plains-druid-our-season/
http://raisedbygypsies.blogspot.com/2014/07/mp3-review-lost-trail-without.html
http://acloserlisten.com/2013/06/04/lost-trail-pages-from-the-alamance-hymnal-2011-2013/
http://acloserlisten.com/2014/02/18/lost-trail-blacked-out-passages/

http://sloucher.org/2012/11/09/lost-trail-a-stained-august-for-the-jetcrash/
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/07/holy-ring-of-chalk/
http://eternitytree.tumblr.com/post/56475741956/here-is-something-rather-enjoyable-a-split
http://half-gifts.blogspot.com/2013/08/show-review-lost-trailproud-father.html
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/05/lost-trail-pages-from-the-alamance-hymnal-20112013/

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/mix-chocolate-grinder-mix-68-you-did-this-to-me
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4423185

http://acloserlisten.com/2012/11/09/lost-trail-music-from-traumatic-attachments/
http://www.teethofthedivine.com/featured/teethofthedivine-staff-picks-for-2013/9/
http://ears4eyes.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/lost-trail-blacked-out-passages.html?m=0
https://soundcloud.com/shimmering-moods-records/shm-podcast-18-deer-mask-by-lost-trail
http://perfectmidnightworld.tumblr.com/post/67758952048/october-lights-and-fields-pt-1-by-lost-trail
http://chromewaterfall.tumblr.com/post/70310421256/lost-trail-how-an-absence-creates-a-presence-c50
http://mtymnhka.blogspot.com/2014/06/lost-trail-chapter-19-in-which-lost.html
http://eternitytr33.wordpress.com/2014/06/22/our-season-by-lost-trailplains-druid/

http://mtymnhka.blogspot.com/2012/10/lost-trail-traumatic-attachments.html

http://calmintrees.blogspot.com.es/search/label/lost%20trail
http://eternitytree.tumblr.com/post/72609355644/hooray-some-new-lost-trail-now-its-no-secret
http://heathenharvest.org/2013/12/15/heathen-harvests-best-of-2013/
http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2014/12/27/lost-trail-an-elegy-and-a-mirror/
http://acloserlisten.com/2013/12/20/acl-2013-top-ten-experimental/
http://acloserlisten.com/2013/12/26/acl-2013-guest-lists-part-one/

http://acloserlisten.com/2012/06/28/lost-trailnative-prairie-intersecting-lines-of-powernative-prairie/

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=76910&PN=3
http://leighwright.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/pick-of-the-week-pastpresentfuture-9/

http://daddyopolis.tumblr.com/post/18137143279/oh-yes-definitely-two-thumbs-up-here-while-im

http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2011/10/15/sound-bytes-daniel-mackenzie-ecka-liena-and-lost-trail/

http://acloserlisten.com/2012/02/25/lost-trail-october-mountain/
http://www.thetimesnews.com/lifestyles/lifestyles-home/local-couple-releases-cd-of-ambient-environmental-music-1.153797

http://acloserlisten.com/2012/02/25/lost-trail-a-stained-august-for-the-jetcrash/

http://www.secretdecoder.net/2012/05/open-space-reserve.html

http://flashlighttagmusic.tumblr.com/post/18136481576

http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/lost-trailsummer-of-glaciers-will-get-you-wistful

http://weedtemple.tumblr.com/post/29068178863/lost-trail-house-and-shadow

http://mhisadj.tumblr.com/post/18156986713/galaxies-will-spin-ever-faster-to-sounds-such-as
http://musicforzombies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/lost-trail-and-implicit-order.html
http://acloserlisten.com/2013/10/10/lost-trail-holy-ring-of-chalk/

http://mtymnhka.blogspot.com/2012/12/lost-trail-favrtsm-in-gray-and-leaden.html

http://acloserlisten.com/2012/04/05/lcnl-06-snowy-mix-for-synesthetic-commuters/

http://pyongyangplastics.wikispaces.com/start+october

http://www2.nbc17.com/entertainment/2011/apr/15/sessions-at-studio-b-with-lost-trail-26534-vi-31464

http://soundcloud.com/losttrailnc/wuag
http://crazydesertman.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/other-peoples-sounds-for-your-pleasure.html
http://www.ashevillefm.org/notes-from-the-underground/03/2013/featured-artist-lost-trail

http://audensraign.tumblr.com/post/18604713375/the-beginning-1on1-lost-trail

http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/46zachary.html 
http://mtymnhka.blogspot.com/2012/12/top-50-albums-of-2012.html
http://bandcamp.com/recommended/wmdchiptune
http://mtymnhka.blogspot.com/2013/01/lost-trail-nothing-is-fked-forever.html
http://www.ssgmusic.com/lost-trail-eidolons/
http://www.fabricohmusic.com/reviews/lost_trail_return_to_october_mountain/
http://noise-admiration.blogspot.de/2014/10/thoughts-of-day-352014-robert-smithson.html
http://forestpunk.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/lost-trail-the-implicit-order-the-blackridge-tapes/
http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/the-lost-trail-and-the-implicit-order/
http://stream.ashevillefm.org/afm-notes-from-the-underground-02032013.mp3
http://www.etherreal.com/spip.php?breve57&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
http://leighwright.wordpress.com/?p=2297&preview=true%2F
http://wonderfulwoodenreasons.homestead.com/bestof2012.html
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Forfy/y2k_was_a_lie_part_14__2013_in_music_/
http://raisedbygypsies.blogspot.com/2014/03/mp3-review-kamrar-lost-trail-split.html
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2014/01/blacked-out-passages/
http://ears4eyes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/april-larsons-2013-round-up.html
http://acloserlisten.com/2013/07/16/lcnl-029-raining-light-mix-lost-trail/