A rework of Pete Swintons track, this time with my strings (cello, viola) in a jamming repetitive way in the school of Popol Vuh. Enjoy!

Advantages Of Exile

Wilderness Dreams

A Shimmering Fog Descends

Nocturne

Gloucestershire, UK based artist Andrew Heath returns to Whitelabrecs, following up on his album ‘Quiet Noise’ (2022) and collaborations with Simon McCorry ‘A Is For Autumn’ (2022) and Anne Chris Bakker ‘How To Breathe Like A Stone’ (2021). Andrew has also released music on labels including Fluid Audio, Disco Gecko, Audiobulb, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and more, through his solo output and collaborations with other artists.

Charting a lighter more open sound than recent albums, The Cloud Machine returns to and explores one of Andrew’s constant themes - his continuing fascination with and the depiction of, the simple innocence of his own childhood. In this case, a sound painting of light, radiance and naive joy through the metaphor of clouds and of a gaze drawn to the skies. From the ethereal beauty of The Cloud Machines and The Age of Enlightenment, to the memories of racing the shadows of clouds blown by the wind across fields as a young boy in Chasing Clouds, there is the ever present feel of blissful, innocence and wonderment at the beauty of the natural world around and above us.

The album explores these themes through Andrew’s use of his much loved piano and guitar and balancing them against constantly shifting, delicate and fragile electronic tones and textures. Using a lighter, more transparent tonal palette, The Cloud Machine has a gentle, blissful tone as though touching the drifting clouds overhead.

Written, Produced and Mastered by Andrew Heath
Artwork (Ghost Mills) by Zoë Heath
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

The Cloud Machine

wlr157 Andrew Heath - The Cloud Machine

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
537
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku537-deep-in-the-mountains/

2024-04-18

Deep In The Mountains  ( Naviarhaiku 537 )

Kama¹⁹

track 5 from “On the Sorrow of Firn” by @Hilyard
https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-sorrow-of-firn

On the Sorrow of Firn

Hilyard - Evening Vapor

This long-form piece, in which impressionist piano intertwines with sympathetic field recordings and found sounds, makes reference to and is influenced by an experience I had at the Suffolk coast in late-February 2019.

The UK was experiencing especially unseasonably calm and warm weather, and on an early-morning visit to the beach, I encountered a set of circumstances so magical, I had to bring them to life in a musical way.

The unique atmospheric conditions created a panorama, which, combined with the other-worldly landscape of Shingle Street, is hard to convey how special and beautiful it was. I have never seen the sea so still, with barely a lap at the shore. Every sound: the gaps between the shingle filled by the gently-gurgling, placid sea; hordes of gulls, terns - possibly a gannet - grazing on Orford Ness, their squawks echoing shrilly across the glass-still inlet; and the faint tolling of the bell buoy, a mile out to sea, carried across on the gentle breeze.

Four Suffolk Sea Scenes (Mastered)

Music by Hotel Neon (hotelneonmusic.com)
Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12kmastering.com)
Artwork by Benoît Pioulard (pioulard.com)
Released by Sound in Silence (soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com)

Buy on Bandcamp

oct 13

Whitelabrecs was set up by Harry Towell in late 2015 as another outlet to put out experimental electronic/acoustic music. It followed Harry’s previous labels Audio Gourmet, Tessellate and Warehouse Decay and focuses on a collectable series of highly limited edition vinyl-effect CDr packaging, with the first 50 releases influenced by white label vinyl records. The label also runs a digital only series called eRecords, with each of these releases including a special PDF booklet.

https://www.whitelabrecs.com
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/

wlr157 Andrew Heath - The Cloud Machine

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