Good morning from a grey and cold Sunday in Swansea. I say grey but it's a light sort of grey. light enough to make the prospect of a walk later today an enticing idea.
I've been playing around with Bandcamp over the last few days (and will continue to do so for the next few) and have uploaded a new release and one of my very first.
The new album is something that's been sat on my hard-drive for about a year now because I'd forgotten about it. I found it again on Friday and so decided to make it available for all to hear. The title came about during a conversation with my partner as I'd abandoned the working title (because I couldn't come up with a cover design) and was bandying around words like 'entropy', 'heliocentric' & 'stasis' (yes I am reading a lot of science fiction at the moment) the latter two of which she smashed together to give the title.
the second upload was the first full album I made as Psychic Space Invasion (another name that got mashed together after a conversation with Sioux). It was made in the back half of 2002 and I started letting people hear it in early 2003. It was never intended to be the start of anything. It was just something i was pottering with using a computer that a good friend (Hi Jason) had kindly made for me. People seemed to really like it and so I just kept making more copies to give away.
I never charged for copies of This Quiet World and so I'm continuing that tradition by making this a FREE download.
peace
Ian
Showing posts with label albums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label albums. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
employment is the bane of creativity (but not it's death)
work getting to be so intense over the last 2 months has meant that
Quiet World hasn't been getting my full attention but it has been
getting my passing attention and as such there are 4 definite releases
on the horizon.
First up is an intense little drone album from the very wonderful Brian Lavelle called 'My Hands Are Ten Knives'. Brian's been on a real roll of late - check this magical free download of his out - and this is another missive from that good place he's in.
The second is 'Love Song for Broken Buildings' a very nice guitar based ambient set from Kostoglotov who may be familiar to those of you following my Wonderful Wooden Reasons where I've featured two of his recent releases.
The other two releases both feature me and my two most regular compatriots.
The first is a collaboration with Banks Bailey called 'Strange Pilgrims'
The other is an as yet untitled split (not a collab) with Darren Tate.His track is a beautiful and restrained drone piece, mine is an anything and everything musique concrete mash-up.
Further in the year there will also be another Philip Corner album. This time featuring his work with gongs and field recordings - I've heard it, it's magnificent.
hopefully some more plans will come to fruition in the near future but that's all I've got for you for now. These releases should start appearing sometime within the next month.
peace
ian
First up is an intense little drone album from the very wonderful Brian Lavelle called 'My Hands Are Ten Knives'. Brian's been on a real roll of late - check this magical free download of his out - and this is another missive from that good place he's in.
The second is 'Love Song for Broken Buildings' a very nice guitar based ambient set from Kostoglotov who may be familiar to those of you following my Wonderful Wooden Reasons where I've featured two of his recent releases.
The other two releases both feature me and my two most regular compatriots.
The first is a collaboration with Banks Bailey called 'Strange Pilgrims'
The other is an as yet untitled split (not a collab) with Darren Tate.His track is a beautiful and restrained drone piece, mine is an anything and everything musique concrete mash-up.
Further in the year there will also be another Philip Corner album. This time featuring his work with gongs and field recordings - I've heard it, it's magnificent.
hopefully some more plans will come to fruition in the near future but that's all I've got for you for now. These releases should start appearing sometime within the next month.
peace
ian
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Philip Corner's Quiet Understandings
I don't use this blog anywhere near as much as i could / should.
new album out now on Quiet World by the very wonderful Philip Corner.
Philip was one of the originators of Fluxus in New York in the 1960s and he's still making obtuse and unusul music to this day. I was honoured to be asked to release something.
Peace
ian
new album out now on Quiet World by the very wonderful Philip Corner.
Philip was one of the originators of Fluxus in New York in the 1960s and he's still making obtuse and unusul music to this day. I was honoured to be asked to release something.
Peace
ian
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Pier
...is the name of the new download only album I've just put out.
It's a phonography of the Pier in Mumbles, which is the next town along the coast from where I live. there's more info on it's release page on the QW site but here's the link to the album.
Also there're two new albums out on Quiet World this week by Colin Andrew Sheffield & Syrinx. they're both rather lovely.
It's a phonography of the Pier in Mumbles, which is the next town along the coast from where I live. there's more info on it's release page on the QW site but here's the link to the album.
Also there're two new albums out on Quiet World this week by Colin Andrew Sheffield & Syrinx. they're both rather lovely.
Thursday, 7 May 2009
What a long day it's been
it's 1:10 am on thursday 7th may and I'm sat at my pc in the exact same spot i've been sat in since 3:30 yesterday afternoon. My arse cheeks are numb and my back and shoulders are killing me. The reason why i've not moved from this spot all day is that i've been assembling the new album and I finished about 10 minutes ago.
i make all the QW releases by hand, except those that I do with Darren Tate, as it is significantly cheaper that way. I print the sleeves in work or my friend Steve prints them in his work - whichever is the most practical at the time - and then i print the discs using my epson r220 cd printer, cut and fold the sleeves and then put the lot in their shiny little poly wallets. It's monumentally tedious work. I could, obviously, get them made for me but money being what it is at the moment that just doesn't seem to be a realistic option.
The discs arrived today, a replacement box as the last lot i ordered went astray - currently they are, according to the tracking website, in Budapest having visited two German cities on the way. Anyway, the new box turned up at 3:30 and so I thought I'd at least get a few printed and assembled before i broke off for the evening, I just never got around to the breaking off for the evening part. Once i started I just wanted them done so I kept going.
I don't want to sound like I'm complaining too much though as i had plenty of tunes to keep me company. I kept it fairly up-tempo and motivational so the Dresden Dolls' 'Yes Virginia' got an airing (I love that album) as did the 'Into The Wild' soundtrack by Eddie Vedder (don't snigger it's really good) but my current fave listen is 'Only Just Beginning' by Jason Webley. It's a rousingly good time set of tunes that sound like Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen partying at a circus. I heard him first on a youtube clip singing his song 'Icarus' in the street with a heavily medicated Amanda Palmer (she'd just left hospital having broken her leg by being run over that afternoon). I was intrigued enough to give the album a try and it's proper good.
Anyway, I hear my bed calling. If I can face the pc tomorrow i'll post some more field recordings I made recently and also tell you the story of how i spent last friday up a mountain in a cloud.
peace
ian
i make all the QW releases by hand, except those that I do with Darren Tate, as it is significantly cheaper that way. I print the sleeves in work or my friend Steve prints them in his work - whichever is the most practical at the time - and then i print the discs using my epson r220 cd printer, cut and fold the sleeves and then put the lot in their shiny little poly wallets. It's monumentally tedious work. I could, obviously, get them made for me but money being what it is at the moment that just doesn't seem to be a realistic option.
The discs arrived today, a replacement box as the last lot i ordered went astray - currently they are, according to the tracking website, in Budapest having visited two German cities on the way. Anyway, the new box turned up at 3:30 and so I thought I'd at least get a few printed and assembled before i broke off for the evening, I just never got around to the breaking off for the evening part. Once i started I just wanted them done so I kept going.
I don't want to sound like I'm complaining too much though as i had plenty of tunes to keep me company. I kept it fairly up-tempo and motivational so the Dresden Dolls' 'Yes Virginia' got an airing (I love that album) as did the 'Into The Wild' soundtrack by Eddie Vedder (don't snigger it's really good) but my current fave listen is 'Only Just Beginning' by Jason Webley. It's a rousingly good time set of tunes that sound like Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen partying at a circus. I heard him first on a youtube clip singing his song 'Icarus' in the street with a heavily medicated Amanda Palmer (she'd just left hospital having broken her leg by being run over that afternoon). I was intrigued enough to give the album a try and it's proper good.
Anyway, I hear my bed calling. If I can face the pc tomorrow i'll post some more field recordings I made recently and also tell you the story of how i spent last friday up a mountain in a cloud.
peace
ian
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