Corben - Isolation Reverie
Format: Cassette - CD - Digital

Last CD's and Cassettes available here:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/isolation-reverie

We fought in the format wars wielding consumer level melody and parking lot chords tuned to bird scale and after school static. 
We knew that nothing would ever happen and that we were never here. Our lives are not events. We are the eternal moments of isolated reveries and home video laments. 
We are 3:30pm. We are the hot strawberry table outside the Dairy Queen and that pack of matches we keep from that gas station in Oregon. 
We are these songs. 
What do they say? 
They tell us that once before we were the whole of the river but now we are just jewel toned drops pouring out alone over the cliff's edge. 
They walk with us to the ocean's mirror to practice our speeches but they know that on our way home we will speak only to ourselves. 
Nostalgia is cheap but elegy is necessary and these tracks are written as a ceremony for our wounded present using the forgotten past. 
Will you remember us when we are the river again? 

Words by Jonathan Orr

Released February 5, 2021 

Track list:

1. Volo's Lament 05:00
2. Hoodoo 05:52
3. Ocean Of Emotion 09:46
4. The Garden 07:53
5. Home Videos 07:16
6. Only You Shine So Bright 05:22
7. Sosena 04:31

Music by Corben 
Recorded at Riverbend 
Mixed & Mastered at Wilderness Park 
Cover Photography by Corben 
Layout and artwork by Mark Hall-Patch 

SHM 141

Limited Edition / 50 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / various wallet and envelope colors available / Professional duplicated cdr

Limited Edition / 20 copies / Full color o-cards / Pro Dubbed / Light Brown Cassettes / C43

Corben - Isolation Reverie - MXD

***Currently on a hiatus...***
A monthly radio programme on Soundart Radio celebrating the understated,  electronic underground, with the music and artists connected in some shape or form to the labels: cotton goods, moteer, mobeer and the family that orbit around them.

The original series of shows ran from 2011 to 2018 and, after a two-year hiatus, returned to Soundart in July 2020.

Special thanks to Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson of Moteer / Cotton Goods for their support and musical inspiration.  
Thanks to Chris, Dave & Lucinda at Soundart Radio in Totnes (twinned with Narnia), Devon.  
Former DJ at Cafe Belen, Madrid - January 1998 to July 1999. 



PS. The image is from a picture I bought in a restaurant / art gallery in Ejsberg, Denmark back in about 2006/7.   Can't remember who the artist was, apart from the intials SB  So if anyone does know her/him, then please say thank you on my behalf.
The original painting is called 'The Concert' by Gerhard Terborch (1617-1681)and depicts af girl playing viola da gamba and harpsichord. 17th century, early Baroque.

"ℰ𝓋ℯ𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒾𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓃ℯ 𝒾𝓈 𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓁." 

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Corben - Isolation Reverie - MXD

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