This music grabbed me from the first note. I like this music a lot and I can't even say why - it's just good. It lets me in.
Loren Connors
photograph © Shawn E. Daily - The Boy Who Spoke Clouds live @ 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA, USA
Adam has been releasing music under various monikers since releasing his first demo tape in 1993. He is best known for his work in Seascapes of the Interior, The Boy Who Spoke Clouds, Trappist Afterland and Casey Bebenek. He has recently completed two albums, which were released under the names Adam Casey & the Liminal Choir and photo(sphere), and three singles under his own name, Adam Casey. Scroll down to learn and listen to upcoming & current, legacy and collaborative projects.
Upcoming & Current
Adam Casey
A return to lyric based songwriting (Adam hasn’t released anything with lyrical singing since 2014s ‘Salvation’), Adam released three singles in 2022, all fragments of his musical practice that didn’t belong to any one project, and thus, were shelved, until now. A love song to a plant, a very slow getaway song wherein the destination is the afterlife, and, a devotional homage to sound as signifier.
photo(sphere)
We’re excited to announce Adam’s latest musical endeavour, a new project and album entitled ‘photo(sphere).
Adam’s previous music has always engaged with the aesthetics present in ‘ambient music’, but, this is the first album in which Adam fully immerses into this musical tradition.
‘This album is indebted to Eno, for sure, but moves away from his conception of ambient music. I think of these musical pieces as tonal explorations, sonic poems, or, more explicitly, musical vignettes that fleetingly fly by you; I like to think they leave something behind in the listener that is perhaps more profound than the pieces of music themselves.’
Conceptually, the album explores the perception of the detritus of the past, positioning the barely perceptible movement left behind by various elemental forces into full focus, be it a flower that shakes after a bird has leapt off it, the silver dust that sprays across the deep ocean floor from the fluke of a whale, the impression of a body in a dune, the flickering residue within our eyes as we squint up at the sky.
The compositional foundation was largely performed on pipe organ, mellotron and piano, with field recordings, no input feedback and Juno 6 also finding their way into these tonal explorations amongst other sounds and instruments.
releases April 28, 2022 on East Cape Calling
Adam Casey & the Liminal Choir
Adam completed recording a new album entitled ‘Nether | Aether’ which was released in November, 2021 via the New Zealand based indie label, East Cape Calling.
The album was largely inspired by Don Cherry’s 1970s ‘spiritual jazz’ output and Alice Coltrane’s ‘Journey to Satchidananda’ album, particularly the mesmeric bass playing of Charlie Haden.
Conceptually, this album explores the journey below, and then, the transcendental journey back to earth, and continuing, above it and beyond.
This is the first album from Adam that was composed, first, on contrabass, and, in the later stages, arranged for full band (contrabass, electric bass, drum kit, 808, no input feedback, shortwave radio, dulcitone, tanpura, hackbrett, mellotron, bells, voice, strings, horns). Katherine Walsh (aka katheros) wrote and arranged most of the choral parts throughout the album, which, are a centrepiece of the work.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Adam at The True Vine Recording Studio.
Legacy
Casey Bebenek
CASEY BEBENEK was a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist composer, Adam Casey (Seascapes of the Interior/The Boy Who Spoke Clouds/ex-Trappist Afterland), and drum/percussion prodigy, Julia Bebenek (Lijuka/Nandi). CASEY BEBENEK played extended free form improvisations that eschewed entertainment, with a powerful focus on audience communion and engagement with our natural world.
CASEY BEBENEK released a long form improvised track in every month of 2019 as a part of the #wemadethisforyou music release series which you can hear in the players below.
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds was a musical project that was active for 14 years. After releasing 5 albums, 2 EPs and a single, and touring the world three times over, it was disbanded in May 2019 to pave way for new conceptions of composition and creative identity.
Seascapes of the Interior
Adam was the co-founder and wrote and performed for Seascapes of the Interior between 1996-2005. They only released one album, ‘All Safe, All Well’, in 2002, to worldwide critical acclaim.
Collaborations
Trappist Afterland
Adam was co-founder and wrote and performed music with Trappist Afterland between 2010 and 2012. He cowrote and recorded/mixed/produced the first two albums.
broeder Dieleman
Adam co-produced and performed on two broeder Dieleman records (below), a Dutch artist who sings in the moribund dialect, Zeeuws (a group of Friso-Franconian language varieties spoken in the southwestern parts of the Netherlands). Adam has toured the Netherlands with broeder Dieleman and, when possible, is an active collaborator.