Name: We're Glad You're Here by Wayne Robert Thomas
Duration: 6 min 57 s
Description: previously unreleased track recorded about a year ago. guitar. horns. boring.

Recorded June 2021 at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) with guitar, bass, Moog synthesizer, bells, and various kinds of magnetic tape
Mastered by Rafael Irisarri at blackknollstudio.com
Cover image by me with Polaroid SX-70 film, August 2021

Epigraph

Hendrix Gullixson Live @ Hook And Ladder 5/26/22

A piece for guitar, piano, organ & strings composed & recorded between December 2015 & January 2016.

Variations On A Theme for Longing

A new composition recorded between Dec. 2016 and Jan. 2017 for strings, piano & guitar.

Light On Water

previously unreleased track recorded about a year ago. guitar. horns. boring.

Unfinished Release

We're Glad You're Here

A late-stage rehearsal straight to cassette for reference. Recorded shortly before going into the studio, probably at John Henry rehearsal rooms. This is Mark on guitar, Lee on drums, and myself on piano and organ (the bass was always addressed in the studio once the basic track was down, which is why it doesn't feature here).
It's best to take the 8 minutes out and listen to the end, preferably in headphones, and in a quiet space,

Eden rehearsal cassette

Guillaume Dufay - Motets – Noël Akchoté  
GDFMO-003 (Noël Akchoté Downloads, Album, Believe Digital, 2019).

Noël Akchoté : Dobro (Resonator Guitar), Arranged By 

Recorded in Saint-Gildas de Rhuys (France), March 2019. GDFMO-003 © Noël Akchoté Downloads 2019 (All Rights Reserved).

Dufay - Vasilissa, ergo gaude

Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS(SUB029)
VINYL pre-order: https://ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/album/chords

With ‘CHORDS’, the Stockholm-based musician and composer Ellen Arkbro returns to Subtext, following her acclaimed debut album ‘For Organ and Brass’.

This new longplayer sees Arkbro adopt a more minimalist approach, focusing on the immediate qualities of sound and elegantly expanding the tonal capacities of acoustic instruments using precise, subtle synthesis.

Composed of a carefully selected combination of tones, ‘CHORDS’ stretches, extends and obscures the timbral character of the instruments it is performed on.

Across both tracks, Arkbro examines the sonic materiality and harmonic quality of chords. She considers how the compositions occupy space rather than time – transposing theoretical possibilities into the phenomenal realm.

As a part of Arkbro’s systematic investigation of harmonic sound, ‘CHORDS’ proffers a divergence from conventional ways of listening. This work allows for a form of listening which goes beyond the mere reception of outer stimuli in letting the listener experience their role as active, and as embodying the sound itself. Space rather than time becomes the primary locus of listening as subtle movement of head and body reveals the inner complexities of ‘CHORDS’.

@ellenarkbro

CHORDS

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Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS For Guitar

(2013)
for electric guitar. Arranged, performed and produced by Breifne Holohan.

An attempt to recreate Eno's sonic masterpiece using a single electric guitar and tape delay.

discreet music by Brian Eno (arranged for electric guitar)

The Caretaker returns with a long-in-the-making soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald. 'Patience (After Sebald)' is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss - an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book 'The Rings Of Saturn'. The source material for 'Patience' was sourced from Franz Schubert's 1827 piece 'Winterreise' and subjected to his perplexing processes, smudging and rubbing isolated fragments into a dust-caked haze of plangent keys, strangely resolved loops and de-pitched vocals which recede from view as eerily as they appear.

12 - Now the night is over

Norah Lorway - Flux

Patron saint of painfully slow elevator music.

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