Artist : Aaron Martin & Leonardo Rosado
Album : In The Dead Of Night When Everything Is Asleep
Year : 2016
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 228kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : Webshop / FLAC
Playtime : 0h 37m
Size : 64.88mb
Label : Fluid Audio
Catalognr : Fluid Audio 035
Tracklist:
01. I Can Still Hear The Humming Of Life 6:44
02. And Everything Still Makes Static Sense 5:45
03. Even The Bitterness Of Your Departure 5:57
04. The Syncopated Beat Of The Heart 3:40
05. And The Consciousness That All Silence Is Violent 7:32
06. In The Dead Of Night When Everything Is Asleep 8:14
Releasenotes:
The more I progress in making music the more I feel I am locking myself in my
own idiosyncrasies. Every sound feels the same, every loop leads me to the same
feelings, every noise makes me feel at home. I needed to break away from it. I
needed to submit my routine into something different and that's why I thought
about Aaron. I needed a soloist with a deep soul to guide my feelings towards
something different, something that breaks me away from myself, without
betraying who I am.
I met Aaron a couple of years ago via web, as I guess all of us meet a lot of
interesting people. What struck me as marvelous, was that as soon as I added him
as a friend he replied back saying that whenever I wanted to collaborate with
him I should just ask. The other thing that brought me to Aaron was his
marvelous album Comet's Coma, which in my opinion was probably the best album of
2014.
So, the next question was, how do I start doing this? I wanted to start from
scratch. Record all samples with my instruments and objects at home, I wanted to
have fun from the beginning. Additionally, I wanted to include my kids in my
adventure, so we set two or three days aside where I just went and recorded
everything I could think of with my kids: a trumpet, guitars, wooden, metallic,
glass objects, rainstick, metalophone, just having fun, not caring about tempo,
melody, or tuned instruments, just banging around. A special instrument recorded
was the cello that my older son is learning (one day he'll replace Aaron).
Having two hours of recordings I had to start sampling all the stuff and playing
with it for awhile. After I started creating these nameless pieces I thought
that it was a good time to ask Aaron if he wanted to do a collaboration that he
accepted. The collaboration was quite straightforward. We decided that I would
prepare the scenery for him to come and take over, and that's what he did. He
took over in the most beautiful way I can think of.
One last word on the album and pieces names. Normally, I work from a poetic
perspective. I define the general idea, write poems and then with this in mind I
construct the album. But because I wanted Aaron to be completely free of
concepts I just recorded the pieces and didn't even think about naming them, I
just let them go raw. Only after we had almost finished I then started thinking
about the names, and I guess a poem formed itself magically.
In The Dead Of Night When Everything Is Asleep, is from my point of view, a
journey into nothingness, into a liberation of everything that surrounds us,
something that will transform us into smoke, not bad and not good, but just as a
means of liberation from oneself. I hope you find true beauty in the sounds that
you can listen throughout. - LR
***
I come up with the track titles and general vision for many of the projects that
I'm involved with, so I was happy to take a different role this time: as a
musician augmenting Leonardo's existing vision. I wanted to create arrangements
that were cohesive, but still had some variety.
I used cello, banjo, bowed cymbals, singing bowls, concertina, electric guitar,
Roll Up Piano, and voice for the instrumentation. Since there were already cello
parts included in the music, it was interesting to play off of those and
structure string swells for some moments, let the parts that were already there
play alone, or join them with my new cello parts.
After discussing back and forth, Leonardo spent some extra time finding the
right balance for the combination of sounds, and, in the end, I think we were
able to create something that represents both of our musical personalities, but
that neither of us could achieve on our own. - AM
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Sampled objects and instruments by Leonardo Rosado.
Additional instrumentation and arrangements by Aaron Martin.
Mixed by Leonardo Rosado.
Mastered by James Plotkin.
Leonardo dedicates this album to his kids for exploring the world of sounds with
him and thanks Aaron for embarking on a journey into the dead of night together
http://aaronmartin.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-dead-of-night-when-everything-is-as