Brian Lavelle - Hyperboreans

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5...according to our Brian on Fri 23 Sep, 2011.

Must say a few words about this lovely piece, a 30 minute track recorded in Edinburgh last February. It invokes little pleasures through merely channelling the mysterious spirit of dawn through the sounds of digitized gurgling, splashing and dripping married with eerie dark ambient tones that hover amorphously. Well it sounds like dawn if you woke up in a misty quarry full of the spectres of long deceased radiators or came to lying amongst a pile of old freezers defrosting in a chilly woodland glade!! For such a minimal recording I'm surprised that there's so much happening to keep me intently interested, it really is quite beautiful with portions of rustling, breezy field recording being dropped into the mix on occasion. A half hour in time, suspended somewhere forbidden and weirdly alluring...

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Hyperboreans is one soundscape from a series of Unimagined Landscapes, a loose collection of recordings that attempts to create in the mind of the listener visible soundworlds of a long-distance, slightly out-of-focus nature, rather than pieces which concentrate on points of detail. The album comprises a single, minimal track of 30 minutes' duration. Synthesizer, field recordings and electronics recorded in Edinburgh during February 2011.

Released in a limited edition of 50

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