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Lawrence English - For Varying Degrees Of Winter
Friday, June 01 2007 @ 02:00 AM PDT
Contributed by: Forlorn Eremite

For Varying Degrees Of Winter

Artist: Lawrence English Australia

Title: For Varying Degrees Of Winter

Label: Baskaru France

Genre: Minimal Electronic

01. end game
02. fleck
03. desert road
04. swan
05. soft touch
06. unsettled sleep

This album was recorded during the artists travels maybe, it is meant to view or experience winter from different locations, thus offering different impressions of the season. Track 01. End Game has soothing bell-like sounds, there is some white noise creating an atmosphere which is reminiscent of snow falling deep, piling high and silently. This is like some traditional European winter, we are perhaps sitting inside a cottage with a pipe at hand deep in introspection, our mind is pulsing feeling cold and steady. The sounds are stirring but not anxious, this piece is magical, as it is relaxing. Track 02. Fleck is both quiet and restless in the same moment, high pitched piercing sounds assault our senses, piercing like some strange wind like a storm will come night time of humanity. This is the winter storm. Track 03. Desert Road, by contrast ghostly, hollow with metallic sounds revealing something profound and otherworldly. This is winter as experienced in the desert, the barren wasteland, dust stirs and something unexpected billows from the land.

The forth piece Swan in my interpretation resembles something like transformation. I envision a portal coming open, shifting energy can be felt, the energy undulates coming out of rain and water. It is rattling as it contracts. Next, 05. Soft Touch is hallow, this is an organic singing breathing piece, it is about connection which is not forceful, but light, just barely perceivable. I imagine ethereal fingertips just barely in contact as two beings stare into each others eyes, knowingly and contented. Lastly, 06. Unsettled Sleep brings the one experiencing this music into bed during the dark, long winter night. Something is dripping awakening us, and we cannot concentrate, we now become filled with subtle paranoia, our phobia, our anxieties about things are surfacing from the depths of sub conscious. Suddenly we believe something out of the shadows must be breathing down the back of our neck. We have a cold sweat and know something is in the darkness looming, perhaps it is just a dream after all. This album is a discussion of the experience of winter seen from many angles and I think it engages the listener while communicating the atmosphere of the season very well.

     


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