Artist : Seaworthy and Taylor Deupree
Title : Wood, Winter, Hollow
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2013
Date : 2013-07-19
Tracks : 5
Label : 12K
Catalog : 12k1075
Source : CDA
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Length : 39:56
Size : 234.66
Tracklist:
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1 Wood 7:45
2 February 21, 2013 2:33
3 Winter 16:00
4 February 22, 2013 2:57
5 Hollow 10:41
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39:56
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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