John Also Bennett // Music for Save Rooms 1 & 2 2xCD

アメリカ出身ギリシャ在住のアンビエント作家John Also Bennettが、2024年3月に自主リリースした2枚組CDです。

フルートやシンセサイザーによるミニマルな実験アンビエント怒涛の15曲を収録。

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2xCD. 2nd edition of 100. 

Tracklist:

Music for Save Rooms 1

01. Still Inside the Deku Tree (5:37)
02. Save Room 3 (11:21)
03. Utopia and Oblivion (8:44)
04. Save Room 6 (9:55)
05. Utopia and Oblivion (Return) (9:24)
06. Spiegel im Spiegel (8:08)

Music for Save Rooms 2

01. Sky Music (5:26)
02. Power Plant (5:35)
03. Desolation (5:18)
04. Glass Castle (3:44)
05. Out Back (2:40)
06. Embarkation (3:20)
07. Computer Terminal (2:15)
08. Letter from Home (5:33)
09. Ambling (2:58)

Text excerpt by Editions Basilica:

"John Also Bennett (JAB)’s Music for Save Rooms 1 & 2 compiles two volumes of minimal music conceived as infinitely looping and morphing compositions for “save rooms” - temporary safe spaces within video game maps. The compositions primarily stem from a week spent at work in a former military barn in the Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco, spurred on by multimedia artist and Bennett’s frequent collaborator Peter Burr (for whom a handful of the pieces on these albums were initially composed). Consumed with the idea of music that could create an effortless sense of stasis, yet never exactly repeat itself, Bennett spent days alone in the remote, empty barn composing endless loops, experimenting with phasing techniques, and melding with the surrounding ambience.

The groundwork was laid for over 11 compositions, a few of which at that time were finished. But in early 2020, faced with a pandemic-canceled tour and non-refundable plane tickets, Bennett digitally released a premature version of Music for Save Rooms containing two finished ‘Save Room’ pieces plus various unreleased odds and ends - a synthesized version of Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel im Spiegel”, “Still Inside the Deku Tree”, an alto flute piece and live staple referencing Koji Kondo’s classic score for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and “Utopia and Oblivion”, a work for a virtual just intonation piano & DX7. Bennett presents here a definitely mixed, mastered, and expanded version of Music for Save Rooms (now Music for Save Rooms 1), alongside Music for Save Rooms 2, a fully realized album of new music stemming directly from those original sessions in Marin County."

Artist : John Also Bennett

Label : Editions Basilic

CAT No.: EBS2007CD