Ben Felton // A Lot TAPE

アメリカ・ノースカロライナのアンビエント作家Ben Feltonが、2024年7月に同国NYのサイケデリックレーベルIsland House Recordingsから50本限定でリリースしたカセットです。

エレキギターとシンセによるアンビエント〜ストレンジビーツ10曲を収録。

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Cassette in norelco case. Edition of 50. 

Tracklist:

1. I Can See (Finally) 04:02
2. A Foghorn or a Loudspeaker 06:23
3. What You Need 03:09
4. Keeping the Sun Out of Our Eyes 05:31
5. Take Us Home 04:22
6. This is How You Do It, This is How It's Done 04:50
7. The Fifth Day 05:20
8. To Live in the Moment 02:22
9. Ends That Are Beginnings, Beginnings That Are Ends 04:37
10. We Will Go Our Ways 04:00

Text excerpt by Brian Howe, via Island House Recordings:

"...On its warmly gleaming surface, A Lot is an adventurous yet deeply habitable world where striking electronic structures dot long, winding trails of guitar that wander into tight corners or open country, always riding the line where focused improvisation becomes practiced composition. But perhaps there’s a deeper story behind the record’s special glow.

Ben began making A Lot while expecting his first child, and he finished it in whatever early-morning hours he could find in the weeks after she was born. This isn’t what the record is about, but it’s what was about the record, and surely the expectant tension of waiting for a baby and the surreal release of new parenting suffused the work of a musician as sensitive and receptive as Ben is. When he was finished, he realized it had taken him nine months to make.

I know Ben to be a perfectionist in his music, and while A Lot is just as technically impressive ashis prior albums, I hear a winning immediacy and naturalness that comes only from letting perfection go. Even for someone who always makes electronics breathe so organically, the record is markedly alive, unpredictable, full of things to feel and see after it rises from richly recorded river water in the beginning, before the river closes over it again at the end..."

Artist : Ben Felton

Label : Island House Recordings