Paintings Of Windows - Pororari River Mouthe Lathe LP+DVD (Used)
NM/NM, lathe looks unplayed, jacket is excellent with an edge bump and one corner has a little ding.
Ostensibly an electroacoustic project Antony Milton's Paintings of Windows has always been explicitly about place, manipulating recordings of particular spaces - occasionally with instruments being played in the background but just as frequently using 'pure' field recordings- and manipulating these in order to draw out the remembered subjective emotional essence of those locations.
Whilst this essential modus operandi is retained 'Pororari River Mouth' represents a radical departure in terms of sonics and is far more explicitly musical than previous PoW releases. There has always been a meditative ethereal psychedelic character to PoW pieces but on this record one finds oneself in danger of drooling into their beard.
The location this time is Punakaiki, a small settlement on the wild West Coast of the South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand, a place where crystalline limestone rivers drop from the mountains through rainforest to a ferocious rocky ocean. Milton spent a week here in April 2013 recording improvised chants and instrumental passages using battery operated synthesiser and sampler, these recordings were typically made at dusk as this seemed the time when the inspiration of the land/sea-scapes were at their most intense. The rush and whisper of ocean waves is perhaps the most dominant of voices here.
Be aware that the resulting album of works, down to the very titles themselves, is very reminiscent of 1980's ambient music, most particularly that of the more left field and eccentric New Age composers. This is not so much intended as irony as tribute to a hopefulness and sense of simple wonder that is all to easy to mock.
The record comes with a 30 minute DVD featuring a film Milton made to go along with the music.
2103, PseudoArcana
Ostensibly an electroacoustic project Antony Milton's Paintings of Windows has always been explicitly about place, manipulating recordings of particular spaces - occasionally with instruments being played in the background but just as frequently using 'pure' field recordings- and manipulating these in order to draw out the remembered subjective emotional essence of those locations.
Whilst this essential modus operandi is retained 'Pororari River Mouth' represents a radical departure in terms of sonics and is far more explicitly musical than previous PoW releases. There has always been a meditative ethereal psychedelic character to PoW pieces but on this record one finds oneself in danger of drooling into their beard.
The location this time is Punakaiki, a small settlement on the wild West Coast of the South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand, a place where crystalline limestone rivers drop from the mountains through rainforest to a ferocious rocky ocean. Milton spent a week here in April 2013 recording improvised chants and instrumental passages using battery operated synthesiser and sampler, these recordings were typically made at dusk as this seemed the time when the inspiration of the land/sea-scapes were at their most intense. The rush and whisper of ocean waves is perhaps the most dominant of voices here.
Be aware that the resulting album of works, down to the very titles themselves, is very reminiscent of 1980's ambient music, most particularly that of the more left field and eccentric New Age composers. This is not so much intended as irony as tribute to a hopefulness and sense of simple wonder that is all to easy to mock.
The record comes with a 30 minute DVD featuring a film Milton made to go along with the music.
2103, PseudoArcana