I published my third EP yesterday. The title is gleaned from Thomas Cleary’s The Pocket Zen Reader.
Feel free to stream or buy via the Bandcamp widget above.
The sleeve notes which accompany the album are reproduced below giving a bit more information about the tracks and displaying the artwork.
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NO SEPARATION

One moon appears everywhere in all bodies of water; the moons in all bodies of water are contained in one moon.
This is a metaphor for one mind producing myriad things and myriad things producing one mind. This refers to dream illusions, flowers in the sky, half seeming, half empty.
What if drifting clouds cover the sky; where is the clear light in the waters?
Here, if you open up the eye of true insight, you will see that the moon has never not been there, the light has never disappeared – light and dark are as one, death and life have no separation.
Hsueh-yen

One Moon Appears Everywhere

The title is gleaned from Thomas Cleary’s The Pocket Zen Reader.
The whole line reads, “One moon appears everywhere in all bodies of water; the moons in all bodies of water are contained in one moon.”
This seemed an apt title as there are some unusual juxtapositions of style here.
In addition to analogue keyboard samples, the piece includes a mixture of processed guitar sounds with digital bass & drums.

Completed on Monday 09 December 2013.

Tags: electronic, jazz, dub, experimental, analogue, MIDI, fusion, guitar

A Glitch in the Matrix

Mostly guitar generated audio and field recordings:
An electric guitar drone fed through a resonator and processed in various different ways,
Field recordings of a church bell, a rookery, other birds and a stream,
A three note electric guitar figure suggested by the notes in the drone,
The guitar drone processed to produce glitchy beats to compliment the MIDI kick drum.

Completed on Saturday 01 June 2013.
Originally released 06 June 2013 & re-released here with new artwork.

Tags: ambient, dark ambient, drones, electronica, field recording, glitch, soundscape

Contentment

Field and studio recordings mixed with real and virtual instruments:
The drone sound is from field recordings of a rusting piano frame found in an overgrown garden.
The running water and children’s voices are from field recordings.
The acoustic guitar is a New Yorker style, Takamine recorded through a Samson C01 Condenser Mic.
Glitchy percussion via analogue to MIDI conversion of the guitar track.
Atmospheres and other instruments are virtual.