Dear Elektronauts,
I released a surprise album today! It’s called ‘Station’ and is a sonic thank-you to everyone who supported me this year. The end of the year can be a stressful time for various reasons - and I wanted to provide a peaceful moment when you need it. It’s also a name-your-price download.
‘Station’ is made entirely from Kalimba sounds. Of course, heavily processed, resampled, degraded and smeared into calm longform pieces. The whole setup for this project consisted of an eKalimba, the sample based part of my modular system, Chase Bliss Mood MK2, Herbs and Stones Solid Felt, Walrus Audio Meraki, Cocoquantus, OTO Bim and Bam. Recorded straight to 1/4" tape in single takes.
The ALM Squid Salmple (two of them actually) did the heavy lifting on this album. In there I looped parts or used it as a sort of pitch shifting delay. You can think of these tracks more as organisms than compositions, I guess. The ‚performance’ is less arranging but more keeping things in line and throwing new sounds in. Because even though these tracks are very calm, they are quite wild dynamically speaking, as the kalimba can create some crazy frequency spikes when repitched and layered.
As this is my way of thanking people, ‘Station’ is and will remain a name-your-price download indefinitely. Needless to say, I very much appreciate everyone who can pay a little something for it. The album is also digital only.
I thought this release would also be a great opportunity to end the ambient year together with a listening party. I’d love for you to join me today at 21:00 / 9 pm CET. Here is the link to RSVP:
Hope you enjoy the music and please let me know if you have any questions regarding the process or gear.
Have a wonderful solstice!