In The Field - In The Field

Dissolving records debuted in autumn 2007 with The Dissolving Orchestra, an album of flowing-minded electronic group improvisations focusing on atmosphere and getting ‘out-there’ into a free space. For the label’s second release the impulses that inspired the Dissolving Orchestra’s extended exploratory jams find expression in a move outside; an move away from walls, ceilings and related barriers to the air and sky and into a unified psychic and physical natural setting for an extended flight and exuberance on the nowness.  
Recorded in a field in the last week of July and the first two weeks of August, the tracks on the CD are untreated live recordings. Loops and other prepared tapes were composed by label boss Thomas in resonance with the high tide of greenery, foliage and overflowing energies of plant growth at that time of year. The sounds you hear are the prepared tapes and tape loops emerging from an ensemble of old cassette players scattered throughout grass and amongst meadow plants, merging and cycling with other acoustic interventions (composed, environmental and in between) and natural flux and process. Each track was recorded in one take on a single handheld stereo-recording device, whilst moving through the flowing sound-field.
Spontaneous communions occur in constant moment through synchronicity of music-tone and natural vibration, inner and outer becoming attuned. The listener perhaps becoming aware of active and inherent participation in a cosmic cycle. The recordings are left untreated, just-as-recorded in order that there are as few barriers as possible between the listener and the green physicality and manifest-ness of the sound. When recording the loops the listener the events in the environment, all are part of the same system; the recordings are as they are, as the environment is as it is. The opening sense of heightened natural consciousness and unity of things, starting with the drops of water in the soil at your feet and extending towards the distant horizon is a sense of freedom. A blade of grass and a whorl of birdsong entering your third eye and leaves the treetops opening the crown chakra activating receptivity to the sounds and subtle cosmic psychic pulse and harmony; unhurried loops, moving air, activating frequencies unraveling into transparency the illusory meshes of conditioned thought-patterns, allowing you to experience clearly an intimation of the unity of things and the universal aum. This is where the sounds on ‘In the Field’ arrive from.

The CD has been pressed in an edition of 200 with colour poster sleeve.

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