Artist : Brambles
Album : Charcoal (2014 Special Edition)
Year : 2016
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 212kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 42m
Size : 68.38mb
Label : Serein
Catalognr : SERE003SE
Tracklist:
01. To Speak Of Solitude 4:21
02. Such Owls As You 5:29
03. In The Androgynous Dark 4:43
04. Salt Photographs 6:54
05. Pink And Golden Billows 2:59
06. ArΩte 6:11
07. Deep Corridor 4:40
08. Unsayable 2:52
09. In The Androgynous Dark (Nest Version) 4:17
Releasenotes:
Reissue of this wonderful release on CD, with the 2014 bonus track.
Brambles is the solo project of Mark Dawson, born in Britain, permanent resident
of Australia and currently living who-knows-where as he travels Europe and
beyond.
Thanks to a prolific spell of writing from Mark, what was originally pegged as
an EP quickly turned into an album. Charcoal is the result of long hours spent
recording, editing and mixing. A lot of this material was recorded during his
stay at "The Painted Palace" (see the Brambles Forecast mix of the same name), a
communal house in Melbourne open to all manner of creative outsiders.
Crucially, the house also played home to a piano; during the night-time this was
where Brambles sat, working out melodies and making recordings into the small
hours. Sometimes the piano is at the forefront (as on the solo piano piece,
'Unsayable'), while at other times it plays a support role to plucked and bowed
strings, haunted woodwind instruments, whispered field recordings and distant
chimes ('To Speak of Solitude').
This is undeniably a night-time album, it has that still, peaceful quality to
it, the same you get when you walk down a deserted street at night. And despite
the slow pace, the music rarely seems melancholic - there's a sense of
contentedness which pervades the album from beginning to end. Mark seems very at
ease with life and there's a similar spirit to the music, it is deep, thoughtful
and optimistic - in the words of Donal Whelan (who mastered the final album),
"it's like being wrapped up in a warm blanket". Even the slightly more sinister
"Deep Corridor", which plunges you to the depths of the ocean, has that "cosy
catastrophe" feel to it. I can't help but think of Blade Runner and Vangelis
when I hear it.
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