{"product_id":"templeton-mark-standing-on-a-hummingbird","title":"TEMPLETON, MARK - Standing On A Hummingbird","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Originally released on Ezekiel Honig 's Anticipate label in 2007, Standing on a Hummingbird is the debut album by Canadian sound artist Mark Templeton , now appearing for the first time on vinyl, newly remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and cut by LUPO. Working at the intersection of post-glitch, electroacoustic ambient, and textural minimalism, Templeton composes through restraint and erosion, building patient and richly tactile pieces primarily from acoustic sources -- fingerpicked guitar, plaintive banjo, muted accordion tones -- subjected to careful processes of granulation, filtering, and environmental masking. These gestures never overwhelm the source material; instead, they wonderfully destabilize it. Melodies appear briefly, only to dissolve into dense atmospheres of field recordings: distant streets, birds, water, air. Sounds hover, vibrate, and vanish, much like the wing beating latent in the album's title. Tracks such as \"Pattern For a Pillow\" and \"Amidst Things Uncontrolled\" articulate this approach with particular clarity, setting languid acoustic figures against churning granular backdrops that feel at once sheltering and unstable. Elsewhere, moments of fragile clarity -- fluttering guitar lines, reedy accordion tones -- briefly break the surface before being absorbed back into the field. Heard today, the record offers a clarion, almost spartan strain of textural ambient music: intricate yet unforced, shaped by human touch rather than automated excess. Its refusal of spectacle feels especially vital in a landscape saturated with maximalist digitalia -- a reminder that electronic music's most enduring gestures often occur where sound is allowed to tremble and hold itself just long enough to be felt before disappearing once again. ( Alex Cobb , 2026)\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keplar","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":48798850253019,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/KEPLARREV023LP_PROD.jpg?v=1779391364","url":"https:\/\/www.fusetronsound.com\/products\/templeton-mark-standing-on-a-hummingbird","provider":"fusetron","version":"1.0","type":"link"}