"The Wizardess"

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Polaroid Notes is a German artist named Andreas, who lives in the countryside between Munich and the Alps. In addition to his work as an ambient dub electronic musician under the name Kraut Sounds, he started Polaroid Notes almost ten years ago as a side project for contemporary classical music, but in recent times it has become the main focus of his artistic work.
 
Polaroid Notes has released music on Germany based labels Büro für Erdrotation, Drone Works International, Weber & Alcantu and soon on Licht-ung. He has also released albums on Whitelabrecs, including Unsung Memories (2017), Home Diaries 014: Moonlight Sessions and Ghost Sounds (both 2020) and Cloud Anthems (2022). He also released on Whitelabrecs predecessors Tesselate Recordings and Audio Gourmet.
 
Quiet Rooms came about during a strange phase of deliberate and involuntary personal changes and attempts to refocus. Moving back home after nearly eight years of working far away and dealing with one of the most annoying things a musician can experience ; tinnitus.
 
Quiet Rooms was therefore initially a kind of self-healing process to get back onto a decent track with music, focusing on slow-burning, minimalist piano lines, gentle melodies and lots of space in between the individual notes. The tracks ‘Quiet Rooms’ and ‘Two Wrongs Won’t Make It Right’ were the first pieces to be recorded and these set the direction for what was to come in the rest of the album.
 
Everything was improvised and recorded at a time when it felt right. One particular idea was to keep the tracks as transparent as possible, so that light and atmosphere could shine through as if through a piece of gauze. Later, electric piano, reversed loops and some additional electronic and field recording sounds were added. And that’s it. The music is focused, dense and uplifting in its quest for deep contemplation. It instills a sense of serenity with a gently absorbing, balanced stillness.
 
All recordings were made in the evening and at night, with the lights dimmed while the artist's cat slept gently next to the recording equipment. The individual titles of the twelve tracks reflect the mood and hope in which the album was created. What you hear on the album is a carefully curated extract from several hours of recordings. The photos that can be seen across the four gatefold sleeves of the packaging were staged presentations of quiet rooms inside the artist’s home. For us the listener, they serve as fictitious environments to place ourselves, in which to escape into a quiet space.

Quiet Rooms

wlr169 Polaroid Notes - Quiet Rooms

‘ante mare undae’
Modular Hedonism.
Track created in 2022.

'Ante Mare Undae' is the motto of the House of Rochechouart (Latin contraction of 'Avant que la mer fût au monde, Rochechouart portait les ondes' / 'Before the sea was in the world, Rochechouart carried the waves').

Madame de Montespan, the Sun King's great love and mistress, belonged to this very old French family. They regularly met up at the former ‘Porcelain Trianon’ located in the royal estate of Versailles, a place renowned for its marvellous gardens.
 
Tools :
Marbles, A-160-2, Arp.
- Rings (odd & even outs) > Desmodus Versio.
- Plaits (pair of classic waveforms) > Monsoon (clouds mode).
- Vco2 (pulse out) > modDemix > Data Bender > FX Aid (#27 reverb hall medium).
- Basimilus.
- Drum2 > Dsp (reverb mode).
Zadar, Batumi (saw outs), Ochd.
Mutes, Buff Mult, Sinc Defero.
Quad Vca, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Dans les Jardins de Trianon [modular hedonism]

From the album https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/project-x

03. Project X (iii)

LAMENTATION  2024

First play with the modular in ages. Two simple sequences driving three distinct parts. 

January Rain

vitamin, b-6-

Shape

it's hard to not pick up the phone when i'm at home alone
unblock your number
hit the button
on the messages i wrote you
that i never sent
you're the one that pulled the gun
but part of me's still holding on
so if you show up at my door
if you come back for more
if you come back again
i'm letting you in

if you show up again
i'm letting you in
i hate the way that it ended
i'm so tired of pretending
if you come back again
i'm letting you in
i hate the way that it ended
i'm so tired of pretending
if you show up again
i'm letting you in

you took your shots that left a hole in my heart
i'm numb
sent me on the run
a distant form of love
you poured the gas
and sparked the light
i fanned the flame that burned me
left me feeling torn
but god i miss the warmth

so if you show up at my door
if you come back for more
if you come back again
i'm letting you in

if you show up again
i'm letting you in
i hate the way that it ended
i'm so tired of pretending
if you come back again
i'm letting you in
i hate the way that it ended
i'm so tired of pretending
if you show up again
i'm letting you in

i hate the way it ended

We Get High

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