Opacity. Sound. Intensity
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| Album released on 25th December 2008 | ||
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Aidan Baker & The Infant Cycle
Rural Sprawl
1. Summer (15:25)
2. Temperature Drop (21:24)
3. You Left Your Breath On My Window (14:37)
4. Rights Of Spring (12:36)
Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Jim DeJong (aka The Infant Cycle) have used the «gentleman's kit» of modern experimenters for creating the compositions of this disk: guitar, bass, tapes, samples, feedback generator, playouts and thumb piano. Four album tracks correspond with four seasons, four states of the soul...
Summer — repetitive loops become overgrown with the juicy flesh of atonal sound and transform into sampled rhythms flown over by a soft guitar tune. Autumn — the rhythm is reduced to a hardly evident monotonous shroud, the atmosphere becomes more melodic and melancholic and in the end turns into a heart-piercing guitar solo. Winter — time for sleep and detachment: icy ringing, the slow breath of bass impulses, the rustling of electronics and sluggish drones painting vast snowy soundscapes. And finally spring — the drone ambient nature unfolds large as life, majestic sonic waves sweep accompanied by a swarm of tiny sounds awoken to life again.
The first two tracks were recorded in 2001 (and released on CD-R by the Italian label Blade Records in 2002 in a very limited edition), two others were recorded in 2005 and thus completed the natural cycle of this album.
Guitar, Bass, Feedback Generators, Tapes, Rhythms, Playouts, Thumb Piano: J.D. Jung
Guitar, Bass, Tapes, Rhythms: Aidan Baker
Photography: bjegg
Rural Sprawl
1. Summer (15:25)
2. Temperature Drop (21:24)
3. You Left Your Breath On My Window (14:37)
4. Rights Of Spring (12:36)
Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Jim DeJong (aka The Infant Cycle) have used the «gentleman's kit» of modern experimenters for creating the compositions of this disk: guitar, bass, tapes, samples, feedback generator, playouts and thumb piano. Four album tracks correspond with four seasons, four states of the soul...
Summer — repetitive loops become overgrown with the juicy flesh of atonal sound and transform into sampled rhythms flown over by a soft guitar tune. Autumn — the rhythm is reduced to a hardly evident monotonous shroud, the atmosphere becomes more melodic and melancholic and in the end turns into a heart-piercing guitar solo. Winter — time for sleep and detachment: icy ringing, the slow breath of bass impulses, the rustling of electronics and sluggish drones painting vast snowy soundscapes. And finally spring — the drone ambient nature unfolds large as life, majestic sonic waves sweep accompanied by a swarm of tiny sounds awoken to life again.
The first two tracks were recorded in 2001 (and released on CD-R by the Italian label Blade Records in 2002 in a very limited edition), two others were recorded in 2005 and thus completed the natural cycle of this album.
Guitar, Bass, Feedback Generators, Tapes, Rhythms, Playouts, Thumb Piano: J.D. Jung
Guitar, Bass, Tapes, Rhythms: Aidan Baker
Photography: bjegg