Author: dave

V ættir🗿5 year anniversary bɒksɛt

moatun7.bandcamp.com/album/v-ttir

Dedicated to Babel and all the Electro-Soma people in the world!

Tracks are selected from the Móatún 7 discography and the popular series MOA, TUN and MO_ACID

In 2018 I released “Between The Endless Silence” on Carpe Sonum Novum. This album was a collection of Improvised Piano based ambient works that I had created between 2015 to 2016.

Shortly after these works were completed and selected for the album I continued to work with this momentum of piano based improvisation pieces into 2017 where the body of what is now on “Between Moments” was pretty much completed.

The original five pieces clocked in closer to one hundred minutes of music which was way too long for a single CD release and I was very happy with how these pieces had turned out I waited until the right time came along to release on CD.

I put this project away [on hold] for some time but it was never forgotten and it would regularly pop back into my mind that I would need to complete it and arrange it for a CD release.

In 2022 I returned to it over a period of time and re-arranged some tracks to get it just under 80 mins, luckily no musical elements were lost and I was very careful not to loose any of the tracks emotional. atmospheric impact during the edits.

2024 I return to it again with fresh ears and fix some mixing details and issues. By early spring I’m very happy with the new arrangements, mix etc and decide this will be the 2nd release of 2024 on Before & After Silence Recordings.

Assembled within years, they manage to distill, like a magic time capsule, the essence of eternity in a few minutes. With a careful listen one is able to recognize, briefly, familiar sounds; a cricket on a hot summer night, boats dancing in moving waters. Blended with carefully filtered analog recordings and surrounded by an ensemble of vintage synthesizers. Plank and Ishq’s music not only exists within those sounds, but in the space between them and in the way they interact with each other.

Music by Lee Norris & Michael Gainford
Art design by Mick and LoMo

Music by Off Land
Mastered by Árni Grétar
Art design by LoMo

Music by Off Land & Specta Ciera
Mastered by Árni Grétar
Art design by LoMo

Following on from the UK Top 20 success of 2022’s 30 Something (LMS 5521698), and the Top 10 for 2023’s Optical Delusion (LMS 5521858), London Records launch an extensive 2024 campaign for Orbital, revisiting 1991’s seminal debut Orbital (The Green Album). The Green Album heralded a brave new world for the UK musical landscape (DJ Mag would later decry that the album “rewrote the rule book for rave”). Brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll eschewed formulas and clichés, choosing to explore wider textures, rhythms and stranger mind spaces within dance music. Their resulting album would enjoy both chart success and an enduring legacy, influencing and inspiring artists from Björk to Bicep, with the Hartnoll brothers going on to collaborate with artists as diverse as Madonna, Ennio Morricone, Kraftwerk, Sleaford Mods, and Professor Brian Cox. 33 years since its original release, the album is revisited.

Following on from the UK Top 20 success of 2022’s 30 Something (LMS 5521698), and the Top 10 for 2023’s Optical Delusion (LMS 5521858), London Records launch an extensive 2024 campaign for Orbital, revisiting 1991’s seminal debut Orbital (The Green Album). The Green Album heralded a brave new world for the UK musical landscape (DJ Mag would later decry that the album “rewrote the rule book for rave”). Brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll eschewed formulas and clichés, choosing to explore wider textures, rhythms and stranger mind spaces within dance music. Their resulting album would enjoy both chart success and an enduring legacy, influencing and inspiring artists from Björk to Bicep, with the Hartnoll brothers going on to collaborate with artists as diverse as Madonna, Ennio Morricone, Kraftwerk, Sleaford Mods, and Professor Brian Cox. 33 years since its original release, the album is revisited.