Windbreaker (Drowned Vox Mix)

Slow dub techno, organ, modular synth, Loopstation, Kalimba, Microtape-Recorders. Live recording.

A Sunday afternoon on penguin island

A Sunday Afternoon On Penguin Island

Última faixa do album "Sounds of the orange coloured forest", lançado pelo selo norte-americano Pralaya Records em 2006.

Quinta Reacao 2

With great apologies to Mr Steve Reich for paying homage to his amazing Four Organs with my Four Melodicas! There are two tempo feels going on here - the synth arpeggios are at 138bpm but the industrial style drums and bass are at half-time. Pseudo-random disruptions add an element of chaos and dub-type effects to the proceedings while the melodicas distract from the four beats to the bar by being in 13/8.

blaze (4 melodicas version)

The basic tracks for some of these songs were scattered through other music I had recorded over the last ten years.  Quarantine has given me the time to hear some of this music with fresh ears. In most instances dozens of instrument tracks were stripped away to find some forgotten core that made me nod or smile.  Then I started again.  All new recording has been done since the start of lock down and tries to put a sound on the subtle dislocation of a global disaster that is mostly (for me) expressed in my daily life as an absence, a taking away rather than a presence; a distantly felt thing.  

All tracks recorded and mixed at Shadowbear Studio.  Mastering at Black Knoll Studio.  Photo taken by Csilla Varadi.

collide

MatthewJames