Winter North Atlantic - A Mementro for Dr Mori - Remixes

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. His debut Boltfish release A Memento for Dr Mori (October 2009) was a stylish fusion of electronic and acoustic instruments, which continued the progression towards live performance and a greater diversity of layered, natural sounds. Acoustic and instrumental sound sources included 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 were combined with vintage analogue keyboards, electronic textures and treatments, understated glitchy edits and downbeat broken beats inspired by IDM and abstract hip hop.

A year on from its release, Boltfish Recordings presents a special album of commissioned remixes. With one remix of each track, presented in the same running order as the original album, A Memento for Dr Mori - Remixes offers an alternative take on the initial release, regenerated by 11 unique artists.

Fieldhead (Home Assembly, Static Caravan) weaves chopped twinkling acoustics around crackling, dusty tones and crisp electronic beats in his remix of The Maid. Dextro (16k, Highpoint Lowlife) whips up the pace of Cuts and Tears into a swirling sea of dense dreamy textures and rhythms. The Gentleman Losers (City Centre Offices, Büro) bring out the inherent organic warmth of Occam’s Razor in a subtle ambient treatment laced with beautiful environmental recordings. Paul Sleaze (Giovanni Chrome Recordings) takes the brief processed vocal track Fallen
Fruit and builds it into a gorgeously funky slice of upbeat electronica. Damien Shingleton (Boltfish Recordings, Benbecula) rebuilds the guitar and electric piano lines of Bokor with glitchy stuttering beats and a dark wobbling bass. Mint (Boltfish Recordings, U-Cover Records) enhances the dusky Western twang of The Flute Player with soaring string pads, hypnotic piano melodies and crunchy beatwork. Cheju (Boltfish Recordings, Distant Noise) performs intricate edits on the acoustic guitar and keyboards of Fall of Stone and layers them with glowing synths and glitchy drum patterns. Bracken (Anticon, Mobeer) transforms the fuzzy keyboard tones of Kinay 816 with
wistful vocal layers, brushed drums and dubby textures. Animat (Big Chill Recordings, 4mg Records) brings a lovely chilled, loungey vibe to Guidonian Hand with warm synth strings, downbeat drum patterns and some cheeky vinyl samples. John Ashton (Arctic Monkeys, Last Shadow Puppets) develops the melancholic ambient feel of Opportunity Mist, submerging its melodies in a treatment of droning, buzzing textures, from which a crunchy drum machine emerges. The Declining Winter (Home Assembly Music, Mobeer) takes the vocal track Barrel Organ and
stitches its instrumental elements into a delightful blend of softly intertwining electronic and acoustic patterns and
melodies.

Tracklisting:

01. The Maid - Fieldhead Remix
02. Cuts and Tears - Dextro Remix
03. Occam's Razor - The Gentleman Losers 'Principle of
Parsimony' Remix
04. Fallen Fruit - Paul Sleaze Windfall Mix
05. Bokor - Damien Shingleton Remix
06. The Flute Player - Mint's Loner Remix
07. Fall of Stone - Cheju Remix
08. Kinay 816 - Bracken Remix
09. Guidonian Hand - Animat Can of Worms Mix
10. Opportunity Mist - John Ashton Remix
11. Barrel Organ - The Declining Winter Remix

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