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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: MNortham
Title......: Automnal 2003
Rip Date...: Jun-02-2007 Cat.No.....: and/23
Style......: Ambient Label......: and/OAR
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 72,4 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Originally dispersed among friends in 2003, as a limited edition
"spontaneous document" CDR, this work is now re-issued on CD at
and/OAR so it can finally be enjoyed by more people. And
deservedly so. It is a sonic documentation of Michael Northam┤s
nomadic life, as he traveled and moved studio 13 times in 3 years.
This audio document captures 3 moments/locations in time: Glacier
Du Trient in Switzerland, Eagle Creek in Indianapolis and Ils
Grosbois in Montreal. "Compositionally these tracks are rather
quick snapshots of environments and mental conditions." Northam
writes on the CD-cover.
"My first (and somehow positive) impression was, that I didn't
hear the expected field-recordings of the stated locations,
instead there are clusters of long lasting tones, gently sweeping
in space. I would not call it a drone-thing, because it is so airy
and fragile. Northam carefully adds some metallic sounds which
could be derived from field-recordings but I cannot say what kind
of. Later I recognize the sound of ringing church bells in the
distance. The end of this 32 minutes lasting first track "weave"
(glacier test) is a fine highpass filtered part.
The second and shortest track "creek" (at nan┤s) deals with deeper
frequencies than before and again it sounds like field-recordings
which I cannot associate. Under the thick wall of the deep
frequencies there are some short metallic crashes and sizzles.
Again Northam blends out with a highpass filtered version of the
sound heard before.
"ils grosbois" (montrΘal) the last of the three tracks is a very
subtle, gleaming piece. It starts with a field-recording, which
could derive from walking through the woods. Then there are
starting more and more layers of long lasting bell-like tones,
which are falling on me like breaking through sunrays. Somehow I
associate here a very sunny, overwhelming beautiful place in the
woods.
All in all I cannot complain about anything in this release, which
is for me one of the best at and/OAR. It doesn┤t matter that this
recording has been re-issued after 3 years, as it is a so ageless
sonic pleasure."
www.earlabs.org
http://www.preg.org/~mnortham
p l a y l i s t
01 Weave (Glacier Test) 32:31
02 Creek (At Nan's) 09:34
03 Ils Grisbois (Montreal) 13:43
55:48 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