Reunion Island is the collective effort of Ashley Cromeens, Matt Leer, and Brad Loving. They pull from a wide array of influences and disciplines: Leftfield Electronic, Aleatoric music, Dub, Minimalism, Post Punk, Assemblage, and Beats. Their new album, Collapse, aspires to tell a dynamic new story with a unique and creative musical language.
Their musical story goes back some twenty years, based loosely around art school in Denton, Texas. Musical tastes and trajectories were expanded through two decades of exchanged mix-tapes, remixes, and various collaborations. During that time, Loving migrated to Chicago and then Brooklyn but kept in close musical kinship with Leer and Cromeens, who both live in Dallas.
Reunion Island was forged in the summer of 2017 when Loving took new compositions to the shared studio of Cromeens and Leer. During four days of intense fourteen-hour sessions, early sketches were transformed, and new tracks were born.
Then, after nearly a year of collaborating on the music remotely, Reunion Island approached famed instrumentalist and engineer John McEntire of Tortoise to mix the material. Additionally, McEntire graciously agreed to play drums on the album. Reunion Island gathered together once again in Soma Studios. McEntire refined the music yet again while adding new urgency with live percussion. His acumen providing the final piece of the puzzle.
Vinyl version available in the USA on Tall Corn Music.
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released December 20, 2021
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released July 19, 2019
Reunion Island is Ashley Cromeens, Matt Leer, and Brad Loving.
All songs by Reunion Island.
Featuring John McEntire (drums) and Kosta Stratigos (bass).
Collapse was mixed by John McEntire at Soma Studios in Nevada City, California.
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Lacquer cut by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service in Chicago, Illinois.
Special thanks to Michael Kenny, Kosta Stratigos, Daniel Huffman,
Nicole Loving, Matt Kirsch, Ian Bjornstad, and Blake Grossenburg.
In memory of Cédric Pompe and Bintou Coulibaly.
supported by 11 fans who also own “Collapse (Ltd CDs & Cassettes)”
That track has everything and anything in it. A pheasant's father, a watering can, unfinished alphabets from ancient civilisations, the two of spades, the morning dew, and Hell on earth. Antoine Mouquod
