Artist : Peter Wright
Title : An Angel Fell Where The Kestrels Hover
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 12/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 07
Label : Spekk
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 47:29 min
Size : 67,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Fell Asleep Here 03:02
02.Sunstroke 05:33
03.Lavender Buzz 04:40
04.River Lea Time Lapse 04:35
05.London Is Drowning... 15:13
06....And I Live By The River 03:10
07.Kestrels 11:16
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47:29 min
An Angel Fell Where The Kestrels Hover
started life as the second part of a two
album reflection on my emotive responses
to seasonal changes, both in a personal
sense and also a more social and
geographical sense. My double CD Snow
Blind, recorded at the same time and
released earlier this year on Install,
captures the foreboding darkness and
gloom of winter, whilst An Angel Fell...
focusses on the spring and summer
months, and as a result has a generally
sunnier disposition.
Obviously there's a direct literal
interpretation at work here, the music
is brighter and more melodic, perhaps
even sensual, without as much harsh
discordance that is predominant on Snow
Blind. On 'Lavender Buzz' the seasonal
inspiration is most literal, where the
foundation of the piece is from a
strategically placed microphone in the
middle of a clump of lavender plants
recording bees collecting nectar from
the flowers. But also, as the music was
actually recorded during the summer I
only had to look out the window or take
a walk in the nearby Streatham Common to
get a sense of the type of almost lazy
sounds I wanted to create. Ironically,
this was also one of the wettest July's
on record in the UK and the frequency of
the often violent thunderstorms also
tainted my creative thoughts, neatly
juxtaposing light and dark textures.
Aside from the weather, location was
also an important factor. I made these
recordings in London, England, where my
wife and myself were living at the time.
This is an album heavily influenced by
living in that sprawling, chaotic urban
jungle, as most of my last few releases
have been. Reflections on physical and
mental space are frequently wrapped up
in the sounds I make, even at their most
abstract. London was my home for nearly
6 years and this was the last recording
I made consciously referencing and
musing on the city before we moved back
to New Zealand in 2008. In many ways it
represents the closing of a circle that
started with my first UK-based
recordings that appeared on Yellow
Horizon (PseudoArcana, 2004).
The titles I come up with for my music
can be fairly oblique, often abstract
and meaningless, but they can reflect my
mood at the time I make the sounds
themselves. Sometimes they are socially
or politically motivated, sometimes very
personal and inward-looking. At their
most poetic they can be a substitute for
lyrics, but the titles are not
necessarily designed to lead the
listener into a particular train of
thought when listening to the sounds.
The album title, An Angel Fell Where The
Kestrels Hover, was one of the first I
came up with when previewing my early
mixes on headphones sitting in a South
London meadow watching a kestrel
circling high above looking for field
mice in the long grass. I could
immediately see a connection to the
birds movements and the way my music
drifts and floats. The kestrel's
hovering flight, almost like a
hummingbird, beating it's wings and
making minute adjustments in the wind,
allowing it's head to remain absolutely
still to enable it's sharp eyes to spot
movement in the ground metres below is
amazing to watch. And I liked the idea
that maybe it could see something in the
grass that us mere mortals can not, like
a fallen angel.
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