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Wil Bolton
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Description: | Standard CD on Time Released Sound |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Electronica / IDM | |
| Label: | Time Released Sound | |
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£11.49
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| Availability: | Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry! |
...according to our Phil on 08 December 2011.
Here’s another lush CD on the Time Released Sound label!! These things are about the most amazingly packaged things you’ll ever see! There’s 2 editions o’ this one...a standard CD version or a mega limited (100 only) CD in a hand stitched bag (built with fabrics and thread made at the mill) with tags and what-nots and sitting inside the bag along the CD is a hand assembled book of amazingness. It looks brilliant!! Musically Wil explores his love of the industrial revolution and the textile industry conveyed by the magic of sound. You get some nice pastoral sounding electronica not a million miles away from the likes of the recent Epic 45 side projects (El Heath, Charles Vaughan & Toy Library). It’s gorgeous too...atmospheric drones and acoustic guitar are accompanied by samples of machinery (amongst other things) to create a unique sounding album drenched in emotional hiss and fuzz. This could be my new favourite thing on the label. Excellent indeed!! Fans of the electro acoustic stylings of the 12K label should get on the bus as well!!
For our 10th release….is that possible?….TRS is extremely pleased to be bringing you a very special full length from Wil Bolton. This release is a paeon to both Wil’s love of field recording ambiance, and to both his interest in the industrial revolution in England and the importance these locales played in that movement and in particular with the textile industry of the times.
Quarry Bank Mill, in Cheshire, was one of the largest and most important of the cotton mills in England. Founded in the late 1700′s, it was a working mill for well over 150 years, and has now been rehabilitated and refurbished, and is again a functioning mill, as part of the UK National Trust.
Wil has gone to the mill on numerous occasions and surreptitiously made recordings of the working machineries and environs. He has overlayed these field recordings with some extremely beautiful musicianship, and created here, a homage of sorts to the mill, to the people that worked in it (the majority of which were unpayed and indentured child laborers,) and to the regions around.
