From the upcoming Vol. 2, the second full-length release from electronic duo Lakewaves.

Written by Devin Powers & Graham Marlowe
Recorded in Boston, MA and Madison, WI [August 2013]

Personnel:
Will Bailey (Death by Cassette): mixing & mastering
Cheyne Trost (Hired Rivals): bass guitar, guitar, recording

Devin Powers: composition, drum programming
Graham Marlowe: composition, keyboards & effects, synthesizer intro, cymbals

Cartwheels In Storms

A new track from Lakewaves' upcoming Vol. 2 record

Mixed & Mastered by Joel Nesbit (Cooked Music)
Bass/Synth/Drums/Arrangement: Joel Nesbit
Electric Piano/Composition: Graham Marlowe

cookedmusic.com

A music video for this track, done by projet 19, can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbfF_VEkU6c

Welcoming The Dawn (live TEST)

"Windowsill", a remix of a Graham Marlowe solo track, is a late-addition bonus from the Lakewaves - Vol. 2 sessions done by Takuya Fujiwara. 

Mixing/Mastering/Arrangement by Takuya Fujiwara
Keyboards by Graham Marlowe

Windowsill

A remix by Jaems Murphy (Vedic Eden) of the Lakewaves tracks "Tape Hiss Dream" and "Consense"

*Original track written, mixed & mastered by Graham Marlowe & Devin Powers*
Jaems Murphy: guitar; sampled sounds
Devin Powers - sampler, composition; drum programming
Graham Marlowe - electric piano/keyboards; drum machine

"Tape Hiss Dream" and "Consense" originally appeared on the Lakewaves album Vol. 1:
http://lakewaves.bandcamp.com/album/lakewaves-vol-1

TapeHiss - Consense (Fantasía De La Serpiente Remix by Jaems Murphy)

Arrangement/Sampled Sounds/Synth: Jaems Murphy

*Original track recorded & Mixed by CooKeDmusic
*Written/Performed by Graham Marlowe & Joel Nesbit 

"Welcoming the Dawn" originally appeared on the Lakewaves album Vol. 2:
http://lakewaves.bandcamp.com/

Welcoming the Dawn feat. CooKeDmusic (Broken Window Remix by Jaems Murphy)

Audiobook collaboration with author Mark Smith

*Spoken excerpt taken from "Kourageous Karl"
-->"Chapter 6: Eruption of Fury"
http://www.amazon.com/Kourageous-Karl-Drawn-Into-Hell-ebook/dp/B00PX04B1G

Overall concept by Graham Marlowe

Voice recording: Mark Smith
Recording engineer: Will Bailey
Composition/Keyboards: Graham Marlowe
Bass/Effects: Gnarface 

https://soundcloud.com/will-bailey-productions
https://soundcloud.com/graham-marlowe
https://soundcloud.com/gnarface
https://www.facebook.com/grahamfever/info/?tab=page_info
https://www.facebook.com/GnarFaceProductions/

Kourageous Karl: Drawn Into Hell (Scored Audiobook Collaboration)

"[Celebrated Visitor] is like an audio sculpture  that takes 11 minutes to walk by, and the two halves are a nice way of "existing" - or giving off the vibe that they are suspended in space-time - as opposed to a piece of music that thematically builds and expounds upon melodies and harmonies. Genre-wise, it's part ambient, found-sound/sample-focused, part Massive Attack, electric piano feature."  - Noah Gilfillan, sound engineer @ Audio for the Arts (Madison, WI)

"Equal parts Thievery Corporation, Graham Marlowe and eastern Tibetan landscape. I feel like a celebrated visitor at the gates of Dharmshala getting ready to have a one-on-one with the Dalai Lama." - Scott Werley, graphic designer (Portland, OR)

As a solo artist (Lakewaves), I'd been looking for a way to create the musical equivalent of a short film, an EP with a "visual" bent. I'd  recently seen a number of artists do an outright "visual album" - such as Toro Y Moi's Boo Boo and Washed Out's Mister Mellow - and had my interest piqued at recent concerts by Bonobo, M'n Jam, Madison's own And Illusions and Brian Bradley ("Skywaves") wherein the visual being broadcast behind the band was just as immersive as the music.

I've had a lifelong intrigue of using found sounds and rare footage to form the basis of a musical piece, and of composers that experimented with them in their work. Found sounds can be disorienting by themselves, as they alter your sense of space - and in the case of [the ones heard in this track], the audio stripped from that rare footage acts as a sort of sonic tour guide during the second half.

A NOTE ON THE HISTORY
Throughout the 1950s and beyond, Dr. Sidney Cohen - a physician who for many years researched the effects of drugs on the mind - was doing research on psychotomimetics (drugs or compounds that mimic psychosis), as the U.S. government was looking into whether or not these things had beneficial properties - or, more specifically, if they could act as a sort of truth serum. This is not unlike the research being done around this time by neuroscientist John C. Lilly, who had been studying the effects of sensory-deprivation (which proved to be overwhelmingly positive) on the brain. He later went on to invent  the "float tank" for therapeutic use.

What you hear is bits of a conversation between the test subject [the housewife of a military veteran, who worked in the Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital in which this is conducted] and Dr. Cohen, as he checks in with periodically throughout her experience. Thus, the "found sound" element. The rest is history.

Article on history of found footage: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/1950s-housewife-acid/story?id=12640926
**************************************************************
Written, Recorded and Produced by Graham Marlowe (of Lakewaves, The Chromaphones)
Mixed and Mastered by Noah Gilfillan (of The Earthlings, Noa) @ Audio for the Arts (Madison, WI)
Keyboards, wind chimes, nature sounds recorded by Graham Marlowe
Recording assistance, sampling & various effects by Noah Gilfillan

*Note: the first four minutes of this track contains a sample of "Acid Raindrops", recorded by People Under the Stairs

Celebrated Visitor(WAV version)

"[Celebrated Visitor] is like an audio sculpture that takes 11 minutes to walk by, and the two halves are a nice way of "existing" - or giving off the vibe that they are suspended in space-time - as opposed to a piece of music that thematically builds and expounds upon melodies and harmonies. Genre-wise, it's part ambient, found-sound/sample-focused, part Massive Attack, electric piano feature." - Noah Gilfillan, sound engineer @ Audio for the Arts (Madison, WI)

"Equal parts Thievery Corporation, Graham Marlowe and eastern Tibetan landscape. I feel like a celebrated visitor at the gates of Dharmshala getting ready to have a one-on-one with the Dalai Lama." - Scott Werley, graphic designer (Portland, OR)

As a solo artist (Lakewaves), I'd been looking for a way to create the musical equivalent of a short film, an EP with a "visual" bent. I'd recently seen a number of artists do an outright "visual album" - such as Toro Y Moi's Boo Boo and Washed Out's Mister Mellow - and had my interest piqued at recent concerts by Bonobo, M'n Jam, Madison's own And Illusions and Brian Bradley ("Skywaves") wherein the visual being broadcast behind the band was just as immersive as the music.

I've had a lifelong intrigue of using found sounds and rare footage to form the basis of a musical piece, and of composers that experimented with them in their work. Found sounds can be disorienting by themselves, as they alter your sense of space - and in the case of [the ones heard in this track], the audio stripped from that rare footage acts as a sort of sonic tour guide during the second half.

A NOTE ON THE HISTORY
Throughout the 1950s and beyond, Dr. Sidney Cohen - a physician who for many years researched the effects of drugs on the mind - was doing research on psychotomimetics (drugs or compounds that mimic psychosis), as the U.S. government was looking into whether or not these things had beneficial properties - or, more specifically, if they could act as a sort of truth serum. This is not unlike the research being done around this time by neuroscientist John C. Lilly, who had been studying the effects of sensory-deprivation (which proved to be overwhelmingly positive) on the brain. He later went on to invent the "float tank" for therapeutic use.
What you hear is bits of a conversation between the test subject [the housewife of a military veteran, who worked in the Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital in which this is conducted] and Dr. Cohen, as he checks in with periodically throughout her experience. Thus, the "found sound" element. The rest is history.

Article on history of found footage: abcnews.go.com/Health/1950s-hous…story?id=12640926
**************************************************************
Written, Recorded and Produced by Graham Marlowe (of Lakewaves, The Chromaphones)
Mixed and Mastered by Noah Gilfillan (of The Earthlings, Noa) @ Audio for the Arts (Madison, WI)
Keyboards, wind chimes, nature sounds recorded by Graham Marlowe
Recording assistance, sampling & various effects by Noah Gilfillan
*Note: the first four minutes of this track contains a sample of "Acid Raindrops", recorded by People Under the Stairs

Celebrated Visitor (MP3 version)

Concept and artistic direction by Graham Marlowe
Writing, recording of parts and production by Graham Marlowe  
Mixing/Mastering by Dustin Boyle @ DeTune Audio (Madison, WI)

Album inspired by and dedicated to the memory of Scott Gilbert  

ALBUM BACKGROUND INFO & DETAILS 
https://www.gofundme.com/manage/remnants-of-a-friend-an-audiomural-tribute
 
ALBUM CREDITS
Voicemail "voice" samples; beat-boxing; singing (26:14-->30:30); whistling, laughing; synthesizer composition made using phone app (0:00-->1:06; 23:31-->26:16): Scott Gilbert  
Keyboards (electric piano, synthesizers; organ); acoustic guitar; sampled sounds (traffic, campfire, construction work, nature, other*); percussion; reverse-cymbal & studio tricks/effects; drum programming: Graham Marlowe
Spoken-word poetry cameo (10:08-->13:51): Flowpoetry**  
Electric guitar (43:10-->46:33): Kenny Reichert***
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* = Other spoken-word snippets (in order of appearance): Jimmy McMillan (former NYC mayoral, NY gubernatorial and presidential candidate); Carl Sagan; Alan Watts (philosopher); Bill Evans (jazz pianist)
** = contains sample of "Ambient Afternoon" (unreleased track) by Flowpoetry x Marlowe
*** = contains sample(s) of the Graham Marlowe solo composition, "Fri Dec 7": https://soundcloud.com/graham-marlowe/fri-dec-7/

Vol. 3: Remnants of a Friend (An Audio Mural) WAV version

Concept and artistic direction by Graham Marlowe
Writing, recording of parts and production by Graham Marlowe 
Mixing/Mastering by Dustin Boyle @ DeTune Audio (Madison, WI)

Album inspired by and dedicated to the memory of Scott Gilbert

ALBUM BACKGROUND INFO & DETAILS 
www.gofundme.com/manage/remnants-…diomural-tribute

Voicemail "voice" samples; beat-boxing; singing (26:14-->30:30); whistling, laughing; synthesizer composition made using phone app (0:00-->1:06; 23:31-->26:16): Scott Gilbert 
Keyboards (electric piano, synthesizers; organ); acoustic guitar; sampled sounds (traffic, campfire, construction work, nature, other*); percussion; reverse-cymbal & studio tricks/effects; drum programming: Graham Marlowe
Spoken-word poetry cameo (10:08-->13:51): Flowpoetry** 
Electric guitar (43:10-->46:33): Kenny Reichert***
*********************************
* = Other spoken-word snippets (in order of appearance): Jimmy McMillan (former NYC mayoral, NY gubernatorial and presidential candidate); Carl Sagan; Alan Watts (philosopher); Bill Evans (jazz pianist)
** = contains sample of "Ambient Afternoon" (unreleased track) by Flowpoetry x Marlowe;
*** = contains sample(s) of the Graham Marlowe solo composition, "Fri Dec 7": Graham-marlowe – Fri-dec-7

Vol. 3: Remnants of a Friend (An Audio Mural)-  320 MP3 version

Track 8 from Lakewaves Vol. 1

A music video for this track, done by projet 19, can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4COSBvsvtg&list=PLW4sJQnuz1rTlSPKZ0o7E8NskQiJAXspI

Tape Hiss Dream

Originally, Lakewaves was a collaboration between Madison, WI-based keyboardist/composer Graham Marlowe and Devin Powers (SineRider), a Berklee Music graduate that now writes and performs under the ambient/electronic solo-artist "pen name" SineRider, 

Graham Marlowe (keyboardist, composer) and Lakewaves are now one and the same. 

Download the free albums here:
http://lakewaves.bandcamp.com/

Stream other tracks here:
https://soundcloud.com/lakewaves
https://soundcloud.com/graham-marlowe
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/lakewavesxgnarface

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