purlieu "taking its title from the term for a stretch of land bordering the edge of a royal forest... evoking the moist contours of a desolate nonexistent terrain, purlieu does a thorough job of pacing out its boundaries and limitations. birds sing, thunder rumbles and baker's keyboards chime pleasantly in the distance, recalling memories of a time when all of this was just fields." - the wire gate · under · december · twoside · rhutacs bahsteron · branches · tsohg · em · parin onia · nsepan · time · envtza · gates |
vacuum road
songs replacing the amorphous soundscapes of its predecessor with breakbeats, glitches and insistent techno rhythms, vacuum road songs is the city to purlieu's fields, a journey following the listener from the borderline of the city to its huge, dominating centre, passing all points of human life on the way. borderline · street · rooms · building · fences · rooftops · vehicle · tiwhwias · machine · selfdrive · archway · waterorjazz · rooftops · night |
safernoc less conceptual and more free-flowing than the first two albums, safernoc instead focusses on electronic pulses, piano and string arrangements, and slow moving melancholia, lending the record a more haunting feel and a return to a pastoral sound after vacuum road songs' rhythmic textures. send more bees · night train · barghest · marown dhoo · savernake · kelpie · cwn annwn · moss · vantage point · timber wolf · aqueduct · beddgelert |
60° south 60° south is distinctly more synthesizer-based than previous records, and acts as an experiment into pure electronic sound, with field recordings used only sparsely. through this electronic tapestry, images of cold antarctic wasteland are painted, inspired by h.p. lovecraft's novel 'at the mountains of madness'. tekeli-li · ice shelf · gellert's grave · clouded · snow (i) · degrees · return · meltwater · gone forever · icebergs (i & ii) · snow (ii) · at the mountains of madness |
habitats 1-3 cdr · coming soon... three extended collages creating soundscapes based on memory and imagination. field recordings, electronics, acoustics and samples. fosse meadows · platform arch · leaf pass |
live at
awakenings second thought's debut live performance, as part of the ambientlive awakenings mini-festival on 30th september 2005, is captured in full here. the set includes new interpretations of tracks from purlieu and vacuum road songs as well as exclusive material. borderline · vehicle · december · rooftops · first understanding · em · rooftops · fences |
treatments five audio sources given various 'treatments' and converted into different, entirely new pieces of music. a series of ambient drones which sound distinctly different to previous second thought releases. cliff edge · second arrival · rectangles · where · of architecture |
canal seven 30 minute soundscape ep seamlessly mixing electronic ambience, acoustic guitar, spoken samples, field recordings and various other sounds into a unique journey. canal seven |
the curse of kevin carter mp3 · 11/10/10 · no-source recordings a collection of eight haunted pop songs. a side-step showcasing a series of fragmented lo-fi songs. acoustic guitars and fragile vocals drown beneath layers of synths and fuzz. six by nine · green cliff, tyre city and mulpton in nowhere land · map of the owl · tainted face, tainted heart · what's wrong, mr. blobby? · feed yourself · incompatibility · oil leg |
syophonic an accompaniment to safernoc, focussing on dub and techno sides of the sessions. contains an alternative version of send more bees and two exclusive tracks. send fewer bees · multiplication · bottomless city |
