Earthen Sea

Grass and Trees

Enveloping atmospheric synthesis is at the crux of Jacob Long’s artistic ethos. For more than a decade, he’s made music that explores colour in sustained sound, albeit with a different choice of paintbrush every now and then. As Earthen Sea, his lush dub techno incantations began most notably on Lovers Rock, although the basis of the sound was in place far earlier. Since then, he’s been working with gridded kick-drums long enough to escape ascription as a dilettante. Although his music could never have been described as “maximal,” on Grass and Trees, Jacob Long