00 River Of Clouds.nfo
General Information
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Title: River Of Clouds
Author: William Hoshal
Release Year: 2017
Genre: Ambient
File Information
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Number of Tracks: 9
Total Duration: 1:38:23
Total Size: 655.96 MB
Files Created on: 05-Apr-2017 21:31:03
Encoded At: CBR 930 kbit/s 44 KHz Stereo
ID3 Tags: No
NFO Created: 24-Jul-2018 00:19:56
NFO/SFV/PAR created by: Mp3BookHelper http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
Posting
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Posting date: 24-Jul-2018
File List
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Duration File Name
1 0:11:16 01 River Of Clouds Part I.flac
2 0:10:53 02 West of Everything.flac
3 0:14:26 03 Deep Light.flac
4 0:07:02 04 Maintaining Status.flac
5 0:08:59 05 Fragile Days.flac
6 0:08:07 06 Muipo.flac
7 0:12:38 07 Paths, Prints, and Pause.flac
8 0:07:33 08 Tale of the Lizard's Heart.flac
9 0:31:55 09 River of Clouds Parts I and II (extended version).flac
Description
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Ideas for this album actually started about ten years ago, when I was in the
midst of studying indigenous percussion and trance drumming. A percussionist
friend and I were playing in a small cafe. About ten minutes into the first
set, we both started improvising using loop pedals (not a new concept,
obviously) -- him on drums and percussion, and myself on flutes. Twenty minutes
later, we blew off the rest of the set lists for the night and from that point,
every gig we played became completely improvised.
We went our separate ways, musically speaking, and I began toying with the idea
of creating percussion loops with my own fledgling drumming skills to set up
meditative beds over which to layer extended improvisations. As is often the
case, the pieces took on lives of their own and there were times where the
melodic improvisations seemed a distraction as I became more interested in how
the different layers of percussion and static pads moved and swirled around
each other.
One early morning, I was out with my wife, an extremely gifted landscape
photographer. She was intently focused on capturing a cliff face reflection in
a large pool of water in an Arizona canyon. While she stood motionless in very
cold water, waiting for any ripples to subside, I daydreamed and watched the
colors of the clouds and the slowly brightening sky swirl around in the gentle
waves of the water.
While this album is clearly more rhythmically and groove-oriented than the last
few releases, it hopefully still maintains an ambient flavor as the percussion
sequences create their own feeling of suspension. I should point out as
well...all of the improvisations were one-take, "live" in the studio...
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