Artist : Ian Hawgood And Friends
Album : Wolven (A Modern Interpretation)
Year : 2013
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 226kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 2h 21m
Size : 245.0mb
Label : Hibernate / KOMU
Catalognr : HB48 / KOMU004
Tracklist:
CD 1
01. Ian Hawgood & Aaron Martin - The Dance 2:50
02. Dag Rosenqvist - Blue Type III 8:28
03. Ian Hawgood & Aaron Martin - The New World 5:27
04. Ian Hawgood - Wolven I 4:55
05. Spheruleus - Wolven II 4:40
06. Pillowdiver - Wolven IV 6:28
07. y0t0 - Blue Type II 7:09
08. Ian Hawgood & Aaron Martin - Blue Type I 2:20
09. Hakobune - Wolven III 9:12
10. Ian Hawgood & Aaron Martin - Shallows Break 7:23
11. Ian Hawgood & Aaron Martin - The Headless Sleep 3:38
CD 2
01. bvdub - Wolfskin (One Last Breath Under A Warm Winter Sun) 22:16
02. bvdub - All These Memories Are Blue Type (Fields Of Indigo 24:32
Lights Are Where Your Love Used To Be)
03. bvdub - Red Rugs Of Infinite Grass (Titans Of Dahlia Hold 32:27
You To The Sky) - For Ian
Releasenotes:
These days based between Tokyo and London, ambient producer Ian Hawgood provided
the Hibernate label's first release with his 2009 album "Wolfskin", and in the
ensuing time he's continued to release a steady output of work on labels
including Dragon's Eye and Experimedia, whilst collaborating with the likes of
Ofthesky and Maps And Diagrams. Four years on, "Wolven (A Modern
Interpretation)" sees Hawgood reworking "Wolfskin" enlisting the aid of cellist
Aaron Martin to add new layers of depth, texture and colour to the original
album's tracks. It's no real surprise to find out that dreams are the main
inspiration for the completely beatless and often expansive tracks collected
here, and an overarching atmosphere of calm and occasionally melancholy serenity
dominates as Hawgood processes cello, guitar, keys and organ through reel to
reel tape machines, resulting in a trailing, hypnotic feel.
Opening track "The Dance" sees the lush palette of sounds fading in with a rich
wash of harmonic drones that evokes a warm, beatific atmosphere reminiscent of
the sun rising as gentle cello tones provide a subtle undertow, before Dag
Rosenqvist's reworking of "Blue Type III" sends delicate, bell-like tones
floating out over a brooding backdrop of bass synths, only for the entire track
to slowly burst into a droning fire of treated cello and guitar fuzz that
maintains an inexorable feeling of calm despite the wall of sound, almost
shoegazer textures bleeding from the speakers. Elsewhere, "The New World" gets
darker and colder as eerie ringing harmonics give way to a forlorn swell of
multi-tracked and phased cellos in what's easily one of the more
classically-tinged offerings here, while Spheruleus' take on "Wolven II" casts
things in a more grainy post-rock light, as trailing, pitched down keys and
field recorded sounds crackle beneath gently plucked guitars and wordless, faded
vocals. With a second disc included containing further reworkings from bvdub
(all of which stretch past the 20 minute mark), there's a lot to take in here,
but all of it is consistently rich and inspired.
Chris Downton, cyclicdefrost.com
http://komu.bandcamp.com/album/wolven-a-modern-interpretation