Description:	Top CD on Boltfish
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	Boltfish
	Price:	£7.19
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...according to our Business Lady on 29 October 2009.

Winter North Atlantic present pastoral melodies and loosely ambient musings on new album 'A memento for Dr.Mori'. W.N.A manage to drift effortlessly between folk and electronica creating an emotive and uplifting sound as they go. They embrace acoustic guitars, analogue keyboards, violins, accordions to great effect crafting a sound that sits somewhere between the Bracken/Hood/Declining winter school of thought and Four Tet as well as having a little in common with groups like Town and Country and Pullman. He is obviously a fine craftsman and the compositional work is confidently executed. Coupled with excellent production and some tasteful digital editing 'A memento for Dr. Mori' is a total treat that will no doubt appeal to fans of the aforementioned groups as well as stuff like Manyfingers and the like.

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Sound clips for A Memento For Dr Mori by Winter North Atlantic: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Boltfish, BOLTLP008, £7.19.

What their label says...

Tracklisting:
01.    The Maid
02.    Cuts and Tears
03.    Occam's Razor
04.    Fallen Fruit
05.    Bokor
06.    The Flute Player
07.    Fall of Stone
08.    Kinay 816
09.    Guidonian Hand
10.    Opportunity Mist
11.    Barrel Organ


Winter North Atlantic is the music of Ed Carter, born of a combined fascination with the history of commercial shipping, cartography and robotics, and bringing together live acoustic instrumentation, analogue synths, stumbling rhythms, and dissonant melodies.

The first Winter North Atlantic album, Load Line, was referred to as being “packed with duvet-snug melodies... an album for headphone escapism” [The Wire]. Drawing primarily on electronic influences, and recorded on 8 audio tracks, this release set the tone for WNA's dusty, lo-fi sound. The follow-up release, the Mercator ep reflected a move towards greater live instrumentation, whilst retaining the abstract loops of Load Line, and received comparisons as diverse as Ry Cooder, Four Tet, Bonobo and RJD2.

This led to a collaboration with Animat (Big Chill Recordings), producing a live rescore for the animated feature film Belleville Rendezvous, which premiered at the Big Chill Festival, and went on to a sold out tour of UK independent cinemas. Since then, he has produced several remixes for the likes of Bracken (Anticon), The Gentleman Losers (Buro/CCO), Digitonal (Just Music), Mint (Boltfish), Animat (Big Chill Recordings), The Declining Winter (Home Assembly), Tombee (Jack to Phono), Tunng (Full Time Hobby) and others.

During 2009, a side project recording sounds created by meteor showers has seen performances at the Green Man festival, and a new commission for Wunderbar Festival later in 2009.

Winter North Atlantic's debut Boltfish release A Memento for Dr Mori is a stylish fusion of electronic and acoustic instruments, which continues the progression towards live performance and a greater diversity of layered, natural sounds.

It’s title is both a play on the Latin term ‘memento mori’, meaning ‘remember you shall die’, and a dedication to Japanese robotics theorist Dr Masahiro Mori, who posited the theory of The Uncanny Valley – a hypothesis on the emotional response of humans to non-human entities, which observed that human-like appearance in robotics is only appealing unto a certain point, at which it becomes eerie and disturbing.

Indeed there is a sense of disquiet underscoring the album, through a collision of the natural and the synthetic. Acoustic and instrumental sound sources include electric and acoustic guitars, accordion, melodica, harp, recorder, violin, thumb piano, ukulele, vocals, and recordings of old super 8 projectors and other random noises. These are combined with vintage analogue keyboards, electronic textures and treatments, understated glitchy edits and downbeat broken beats inspired by IDM and abstract hip hop.