When We Were Heroes

Skythrones- Dark Planet

peripheral apparition

Halloween Spirit

I Didn't Care

Recorded live at chords, melodies festival, KM28, Berlin on January 8 2019
(sorry for some digital clicks).

Marc Sabat - violin
Thomas Nicholson - violin
Johnny Chang - viola
Catherine Lamb - viola
Vilhelm Bromander - double bass
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed guitar, composition


Photo by Photomusix / Cristina Marx

Harmony for six voices

Following on from several self-releases, along with 2018’s soundtrack for Make, Do Theatre’s Little Change, we’re excited to welcome Loui Binns’ Foetal Zulu into the Rural Colours fold.

Redolent, Lo-fi and warm, Tracts was created using only samples from a set of Bible audiobook cassettes that had been found on a wall in Halifax by Loui’s housemate a few years ago.  Using recordings made directly from the cassettes, as well as field recordings of the cassettes and cases themselves being hit on objects, and the occasional voice of confused passers-by, the EP places these found objects front and centre of the music, almost becoming religious icons in their own right. 

Despite the self-imposed limitations of the EP, Tracts is a rich and varied collection of pieces, combining ambient and soundscape composition with more classic electronic dance music elements.

Foetal Zulu / X71 taken from EP Tracts

My track from the Welcome to Space Lounge Vol.3 cassette:

https://welcometospacelounge.com/shop/welcome-to-space-lounge-v-3/

Forest Floor

kalanchoe

Gone

Derek Baron is a New York based artist whose quotidian and diaristic work quietly fizzes with creative energy.  With field recordings, text-based works, chamber ensemble works, solo piano works and various other techniques, their deft hand has scribed a compelling set of both stripped-back and collage-based releases on the likes of Penultimate Press, Recital, Regional Bears and their own label 'Reading Group'. For this new release they’ve treated us to a series of musical vignettes; uncovered fragments of memories and offering us tiny glimpses into their personal world. Tender, haunting and beguiling - these works burrow deep.

"Fourteen Latches of Heaven and Earth is a collection of fragments from the last decade or so of my thinking about harmony and performance. "J&C" was a collaboration with V Haddad; "Herr Gott, dich loben wir" was recorded with Dominic Frigo. "Choral Arrival" is a group learning of the Franciscan Salve Regina, sung at the co-incidence festival in Boston in January 2019. "Choral Arrival" is named after a phrase by Annika Finne." - Derek Baron

Forest Floor

Scott Campbell