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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Chris Watson and BJ Nilsen
Title......: Storm
Rip Date...: May-14-2007 Cat.No.....: Tone 27
Style......: Ambient Label......: Touch
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 71,4 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Chris Watson's field recordings of wildlife and natural phenomena
pose a lot of questions; is this music? if not, what are we
listening to? should this flock of geese be getting royalties?
With his more recent work Waton has bucked a few of those
questions by mixing, editing and collaging his material into
soundscapes that are more akin to music than anything else.
That's very much the case here. Nilsen (aka Hazard and a purveyor
of minimal electronics) and Watson have collaborated before, most
notably on Hazard's Wind. They share an interest is in the
'rhythms and music' of the elements, and these recordings follow a
particular cyclonic system that visits North East England,
Scotland and Sweden.
The opening "No Man's Land" is a tour de force; assembled and
collaged by Watson from several recordings made over a five year
period, it takes the listener on a strange and improbable journey;
a coastal walk in worsening weather where seabirds gather in their
masses and seals moan spookily to themselves. At one point the
mounting roar and hiss of the storm engulfs everything; there's a
brief moment when it feels like Watson's microphones are under the
water. At the finish I was expecting to open my eyes and find the
living room overrun with seaweed, driftwood and maybe a flock of
stormy petrels...
'SIGWX' takes a similar approach and achieves similar levels of
intensity and abstraction, but in a way the most effective piece
is Nilsen's closing "Austrvegr". Recorded in on the islands of
Gotland and Oland, it offers the grim monotony of wind and rain,
heard from various cottages, sheds, fields and beaches. It's a
meditative, strange experience, and comes highly recommended.
--Peter Marsh
p l a y l i s t
01 no man's land 15:52
02 sigwx 18:50
03 austrvegr 15:31
50:13 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl