Artist : Layton & Wood
Title : Sfumato
Genre : Ambient / Psychedelic
Year : 2009
Date : 03/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 06
Label : Benbecula Mineral Series BEN548
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 56:37 min
Size : 65,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.plateau 05:27
02.dark summer 10:34
03.mezmer 10:46
04.departure 09:29
05.movement 3 10:01
06.sfumato 10:20
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56:37 min
Influenced by his music lecturer and jazz
pianist father, John Layton developed an
early interest in experimental and left-field
musicàbeginning with the concrete music
movement, moving quickly through the early
progressive music scene, towards non-
western musical forms, free jazz, ambient
music, and then to the work of contemporary
orchestral and choral composers, particularly
Britten, Ligeti, Part, Messaien.
He started playing bass in his early teens, and
also experimented with the sound-on-sound
facility on a faulty old tape recorder, making
many recordings using a miscellany of
objects to create musical and non-musical
sounds with. Since the late seventies he has
been in demand as a bass player, exploring
many musical genres, including a 10 year
spell with Christopher Wood in the Leeds-
based 58 Piece Orchestra in the eighties
and nineties, and several stints in recording
studios.
Over the last two years he has returned to
more experimental methods of music making
and sound creation, working closely once
again with Wood, exploring the sonic
possibilities offered by digital sound
processing and recording equipment.
Christopher Wood is a guitarist, composer,
writer, and has a reputation as one of the
UK most original and individual painters.
He has shown extensively in London and
abroad where his work is held in numerous
private, commercial and public collections
A new book about his painting, written by
Lynne Green and published by the
Greendrake Press will be available in 2010.
Paralleling his career as an artist has been
an ongoing exploration of musical language
and an ambition to make sound compositions,
which are the direct equivalent of his paintings.
He was the founding member of Leeds based
58 Piece Orchestra and worked under that
name for several years making many recordings
and playing too many gigs!. His ambient
electronic pieces are inspired by composers
like Messiaen, and Takamitsu, guitarists John
Abbercrombie and Bill Frisell and bands like
Locsil and The Stars of the Lid. Woods
compositions combine an imaginative, lyrical
and poetic musical sensitivity with a painterÆs
love of abstraction, gesture and ambiguity.
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