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01. Mark Templeton - Amidst Things Uncontrolled (2026 Remaster)
02. Mark Templeton - Pigeon Hurt (2026 Remaster)
03. Mark Templeton - Roots Growing (2026 Remaster)
04. Mark Templeton - From Verse to Verse (2026 Remaster)
05. Mark Templeton - Refrain From (2026 Remaster)
06. Mark Templeton - Tentative Growth (2026 Remaster)
07. Mark Templeton - Across From Golden (Remix) (2026 Remaster)
08. Mark Templeton - Standing on a Hummingbird (2026 Remaster)
09. Mark Templeton - Pattern for a Pillow (2026 Remaster)
10. Mark Templeton - Difficult to Light (2026 Remaster)
ARTIST
TITLE
Standing On A Hummingbird
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
KEPLARREV 023LP KEPLARREV 023LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/8/2026

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)