Visiting The Sky

The two tracks stretching each side of this LP register two different approaches.

The A side is the result of a collaboration for the film "Harbour" by Eric Stewart. Here, John's intentional score finds a functional equity with the themes, images, and ideas inherent in the work. Dreamlike atmosphere combined with sonic detail provide listeners an almost visible resonance as apparitions of Westward Expansion echo through every transition and phase of the recording.

"Harbour is a 16 mm film focusing on the English Fascination with the Pacific Northwest. It evaluates ecological simulation and historic recreation to find in Landscape a stage for the enactment of the Other. In the 19th century English aristocrats were especially fascinated with the large evergreens of the Pacific Coast. Entrepreneurs and naturalists began importing spectacular trees, such as the California Redwood, throughout the United Kingdom. This importation of fauna was part of a circuit of appropriation through recreation; where the English simulated, in garden and greenhouse, the ecology of colonial landholdings while exporting English culture and architecture to said colonial locales."

For side B, John utilizes audio oscillators and control signals that favor discordant and angular structures, settling into an ethereal mood that reveals spacious guitar, keyboards and a backdrop of field recordings that ease the listener toward a low winter sun.

All tracks were created using electronics, stringed instruments, tape loops and field recordings.

Recorded at Fern Place Studios 2016/2018
Thank you Eric, Chris, Lawrence and Joanna
Mastered by James Plotkin
Images courtesy of the Library of Congress Prokudin-Gorskii Collection
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Bimodal Press, BMP002, 2018