To celebrate the launch of my book Marshland: Dreams & Nightmares on the Edge of London (see http://www.influxpress.com/marshland), I've created a special mix.
In the book I write about hallucinatory experiences I've had listening to music while walking through the Lea Marshes. The music blends with the sound of wind, hooting horns, dog barks and disembodied human voices, creating a unique audio mix, never to be repeated. At times it’s hard to tell those sounds that are in the music from those transmitted by the city. The distinction becomes meaningless. The music mutates the landscape and the landscape mutates the music.
I call these experiences soundchronicities. They create a space where mind, music and environment intersect. It’s a magical world, liberated from the rhythms of everyday reality, and utterly transient. It exists for a moment in time, somewhere in between you and the artist, mediated by the landscape.
This is my marsh music...
Tracklist
Comments
Lovely textures - very enjoyable. cheers
this is fuckin brilliant. I thought i'd come to a standstill with Philip Jeck, but this takes it further. Will you be at port elliot festival by any chance?
Thanks! Not going to be at Port Elliot, though if they ever asked me..
Enjoying the book at this very moment with this as soundtrack. Still got the dinosaur?
Perfect! Yes, still got the dinosaur. Next item on my wishlist: suit of armour.
this is great.. sounding great whilst working in the studio :-)
Cheers for listening, Hollis. Hope that it has inspired an appropriately weird piece.
umm yes! should be finished by sunday. (it's not weird in my head) ;-)
excellent work.i have that hackney marshes on order from claypipe and looking forward to it
Thanks for ordering the CD, the physical copies have almost sold out I believe! Hope you enjoy it...
will be like smalls lighthouse a couple of yrs back instant collectors piece
Wonderful.
Glad you liked!
Really nice deep stuff, I felt like i was trudging across the tundra with heavy mud stuck to my boots with the winter sun shining in my eyes. I've often wondered if I've seen you over there somewhere..
If you saw someone muttering to himself, with a cocker spaniel trailing behind, that was me.
hauntology at its best
Thanks Paul!
I'll champion that champion, and raise you a Wizard!
Wizard? Wow, Now the stakes are supernaturally high.
Thanks Geography Trippers, you're in the book by the way - listed in the musical bibliography, plus Extant is in my 'recommended marsh listening'