Artist : Seaworthy and Taylor Deupree
Title : Wood, Winter, Hollow
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2013
Date : 06/2013
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Catalog : 12k1075
Label : 12k
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 39:58 min
Size : 66,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Wood 07:45
02.February 21, 2013 02:34
03.Winter 16:00
04.February 22, 2013 02:58
05.Hollow 10:41
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39:58 min
The cold had a certain warmth to it.
Worlds, life, among the layers of ice.
Complex sounds, alive, found in the
darkest rocks, wet with winterÆs water.
These hollows, rough with age, natureÆs
hideouts, were the source of inspiration
and sounds for the first full-length
collaborative effort from Seaworthy
(Cameron Webb) and Taylor Deupree.
Webb was plucked from a bushfire and
flood-ridden east coast of an Australian
summer and deposited via a 20h flight
into a New York covered in snow. From
wetlands abuzz with wildlife in the
Australia to winterÆs wooded trails
through Pound Ridge, the sonic
environments couldnÆt have been more
different.
Working together in person has been an
important point in DeupreeÆs
collaboratinos lately. Much preferring
the human interaction and local
landscapes over the soulless exchange of
sound files over the internet. With this
point taken care of the pair struck out
in a New York February to a 4,000 acre
nature preserve near DeupreeÆs studio
called Ward Pound Ridge, a park rich in
history that supports a diverse range of
plant and animal life. While the cold of
winter kept most of the animals quiet
the landscape nonetheless teemed with
sounds. The local environment was hit
badly by Hurricane Sandy a few months
prior and the remnants of broken trees
and debris littered much of the woodland
area. Deupree and Webb spent three days
on the trails recording sounds and
images which created direction and
purpose for their album which was
composed in the evenings in the 12k
studio.
The resulting Wood, Winter, Hollow
traces a rustic path of the days in the
woods with an equally natural soundset
fronted by Webb on a nylon string
guitar. Bells, sticks, melodica and the
occasional analog synthesizer form the
sonic backdrop echoing the quiet, but
lively sounds of the winter forest.
Endemic field recordings, including
hydrophones placed in near-frozen
streams, became an integral part of the
work creating a subtle narrative that
places the album in its specific place
in time.
The subtle crackle of a slow flowing
creek working its way through a cover of
ice and frozen leaves. The faint whistle
of the pale leaves of the beech tree
that defy mother nature by clinging to
their treeÆs spindling branches against
the push of winter winds. The cacophony
of whispered raindrops running off
infrastructure and hundred year old
stone structures. These are the sounds
that inspire and infuse Wood, Winter,
Hollow. The rawness of winter in a world
clinging to fragments of warmth.
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