Inlets is a series of piano-led improvisations which
have been developed using strings and other textures.
In creating it I combined aspects of classical
music with recording processes and strategies found
elsewhere to produce an album that’s something of
a hybrid. It feels to me as if it's between territories.
The album was recorded during the months of August / September /
November and has an autumnal 'feel', conjuring aspects
of the English weather - a celebration of grey skies,
rain, misty mornings and dark, evening journeys home -
as well as sun and air. It dwells on small things: small
life, small moments, fleeting moods, in a collection of
miniatures.
It's not ambient music but you could leave a window open
when playing ;-) |
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• RMusic 001
in the territory between classical and experimental |
UPC:
634479105388 Paul Ramsay |
| £9.99 (CD) including
p&p from the UK |
previews and download
available on iTunes |
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track list: |
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1 |
by
the water |
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2 |
piano with insects and birds |
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3 |
gardens of versailles, 1901 |
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4 |
eliz |
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5 |
tidal inlets |
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6 |
partly dreamed wings |
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7 |
bee narratives |
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8 |
bus lane in fog |
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9 |
purposeful morning (rain in mist) |
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10 |
stone flowers over early mist |
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11 |
dragonflies (surface tension) |
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12 |
the pond |
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13 |
gnats |
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14 |
daphnia |
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15 |
suddenly on a boat |
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16 |
stream into tributaries |
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17 |
park |
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18 |
sky touch blue (dusk, 9th november) |
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Credits:
PR photo (Torquay Rock): Teofo Matlapeng
Window drawings: Sarah
Bennett
Internalised guides: Max
Eastley, the Omega Ensemble; Jacqueline Rance;
Mimi
Tessier; Robin Watts
Encouragement: Mike
Lawson-Smith
Authors (lateral influence): EM
Forster; HP
Lovecraft; DG
Mackean
many thanks to all the above and also: Andy
Howell, Nomi, Ashley Potter, Phillip Ramsay, Geoffrey
Stocker and Teo
Inlets is dedicated to Kath
and Rod
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Ramsay - Torquay 2004 |
A
'Slap My Aura' production
recorded @ studio 51 |
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A few notes on the tracks:
'gardens of versailles, 1901' was inspired by the purported Moberly–Jourdain 'time slip', described in 'An Adventure' (1911)
see: http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CADAL/B31417310/
'partly dreamed wings' is a modified phrase from Lovecraft's novella 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath' (c. 1927) and was inspired by the uncharacteristically bucolic, if hallucinatory, imagery. |
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key: Piano; Water
