Spheruleus_And_Friends-William_Barber-(HB61)-WEB-2015-NiNJAS

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2019-12-10

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Artist      : Spheruleus & Friends
Album       : William Barber
Year        : 2015
Genre       : Ambient
Quality     : 250kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source      : Webshop / FLAC
Playtime    : 0h 48m
Size        : 89.85mb
Label       : hibernate
Catalognr   : HB61

Tracklist:
01. All Good Things Come From Above                              3:44
02. To Us Thy Memory Can Never Be Lost                           2:53
03. Gem Of The Purest Serene                                     2:22
04. All Heaven To His Eyes                                       3:12
05. Bien Entendu                                                 3:37
06. Upper Wharfdale                                              7:26
07. By Machinery                                                 3:42
08. Dead March From Saul                                         5:42
09. Broken Stones                                                1:32
10. For The Salvation Of The World                               5:30
11. Virtue Is Its Own Reward                                     4:44
12. Hanwell                                                      3:38

Releasenotes:
This month I am delighted to return with a release on Hibernate Recordings, in
which I collaborated with a few friends that have also worked with the label to
create a special album, commemoration an inspirational old headmaster named
William Barber.

-PRESS RELEASE-
Having released "Voyage" back in 2011, we welcome back Lincolnshire based Harry
Towell aka Spheruleus with an ambitious collaborative album 'William Barber'. In
his solo work, Spheruleus uses acoustic instruments alongside electronic
processing to create timeworn, rustic and melancholy compositions. Here he is
joined by Hibernate regulars Isnaj Dui, Antonymes, Fraser McGowan (Caught in the
Wake Forever) and Christoph Berg (Field Rotation) as well as Hibernate boss
Jonathan Lees.

The Spheruleus and friends album came about when Jonathan Lees came across an
old wax cylinder recording at a local school. Dating from 1906, the wax cylinder
recording had recently been converted to a digital format. Crackly but audible,
it includes William Barber, an old headmaster, reciting poetry and introducing a
musical performance. Deciding that this would be a nice starting point for an
album based on the story of this man, field recordings were made around the
school which formed the basis for the tracks.

The music contained in William Barber is born out of a desire to create melodic
structures with a nostalgic tint and a slightly melancholic feel for the past.
We see Spheruleus experimenting with rhythm in electro acoustic sound design
using the field recordings and contributions from other artists as well as
adding his own instrumentation. The song titles have been taken from the schools
historical records from around the time of William Barber.

http://spheruleus.bandcamp.com/album/william-barber

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