Name: The Lake - Bass mix by Haider Bahrani
Duration: 4 min 32 s
Description: The Lake with some bigger BASS and strings at the low end.

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If you’ve missed the self-titled debut, released by Island People in 2017 on raster, you’re in for a treat! Known for its surgical- precision explorations into post-digital manipulations, the celebrated label and a platform for many groundbreaking sounds has signed a mastering engineer Conor Dalton, Grammy Award-winning producer David Donaldson, musician and DJ Graeme Reedie, and a guitarist Ian “Chippy” Maclennan for a fascinating journey that brought much of their organic and warm sounds to the slightly cold, a little sterile, and desolate space. For their sophomore release, simply titled II, the group push their sounds into a further territory, resembling their home country of Scotland, “made of contrasting lights and harsh elements where time seems to stand still, circling the moment.” Beyond elements brought on from individual contributions, the group has relied on influences experienced together during their tour. Such slight melancholy can be grasped through pieces titled “Far From Shore,” “Stillness,” and “All My Plants Are Dead,” but today I am happy to offer you this exclusive premiere of a track named “Loneliness Has a Purpose,” which you can first experience it here on its own, and then, along the rest of the tracks on the full album.

"Out of the whole album, this track best represents the sound of paths not taken. Of one destination for some still feeling like a journey yet to be taken for others. The narratives we create reveal us all to be unreliable storytellers, it is only in looking back honestly that we can direct the ending. With the feeling of isolation during intense quarantine bringing up a lot of time for introspection, songs like “loneliness has a purpose” reflect on the many directions a life could take, potential futures not chosen and the many decisions that shape a future."
— Island People


I was going to write a bit more about this exciting release, but I feel that I’d be simply paraphrasing the following words, already appearing on the group’s Bandcamp: “The arrangements unfold like the long tracking shots of an early Antonioni film […] gloomy, darker, richer textures have conquered their space…” Yeah, well said. An absolute gem for lovers of surrealist and organic noir-fi as well as pristine, process-oriented production – a culmination of the above four minds gathered in the same unique space! Once again, the physical album is scheduled to start shipping on June 25th.

Loneliness Has A Purpose

TRACK PREMIERE : Island People - Loneliness Has a Purpose

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Hey Joe

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Hey Joe

Halls Of Amenti

Originally recorded Summer of 1991 on a 4 track. All Songs by Steve Jennings. Recording and mix by Haider Bahrani. We didn't have and posh equipment back then. Each take had to be accepted or basically recorded over. So we did a lot of listening back. Not a lot of mixing equipment for post recording so I (Haider) had to get a lot of the sounds right for the take. Vocals were limited in layering as we only had 4 tracks and quality was at stake. The final original mix, I spent a lot of time listening and using a Bos RV-1000 reverb plus a Yamaha Chorus pedal for the vocal it just about came out ok. You can hear the wow and flutter from the tape clearly on some bits. 
Remastered through Cubase 10 Pro with help from some Dynamics and EQ.
Oh and original was all done in my Parents House in my old room. 'Chanson' voice by Tara. That took a few takes. I directed her few the first few and the canned one basically she just got on with it. Some hyperventilating did take place. My folks were probably wondering what on earth!

Une Chanson Pour Faire l'Amour (Song To Make Love To)

The Lake with some bigger BASS and strings at the low end.

The Lake - Bass mix

Chase the Tear

I was born to my Mum, who you see in the picture and my Dad, who you don't as he was probably taking the picture. 1970. I now have kids. One of them can really sing. The other can really, do anything.

The Lake - Bass mix

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