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SEAWORTHY + TAYLOR DEUPREE - Wood, Winter, Hollow

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: 12K 12k1075
Release Year: 2013
Note: first full-length collaboration between the well known microsound ambient artist and the Australian project SEAWORTHY, highly inspired by winter landscapes, recorded in real time coaction in New York => minimal instrumental/acoustic sounds merge with gentle atmospheric drones & nature field recordings, celebrating the magic of the moment..
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"The cold had a certain warmth to it. Worlds, life, among the layers of ice. Complex sounds, alive, found in the darkest rocks, wet with winter’s water. These hollows, rough with age, nature’s hideouts, were the source of inspiration and sounds for the first full-length collaborative effort from Seaworthy (Cameron Webb) and Taylor Deupree.

Webb was plucked from a bushfire and flood-ridden east coast of an Australian summer and deposited via a 20h flight into a New York covered in snow. From wetlands abuzz with wildlife in the Australia to winter’s wooded trails through Pound Ridge, the sonic environments couldn’t have been more different.

Working together in person has been an important point in Deupree’s collaboratinos lately. Much preferring the human interaction and local landscapes over the soulless exchange of sound files over the internet. With this point taken care of the pair struck out in a New York February to a 4,000 acre nature preserve near Deupree’s studio called Ward Pound Ridge, a park rich in history that supports a diverse range of plant and animal life. While the cold of winter kept most of the animals quiet the landscape nonetheless teemed with sounds. The local environment was hit badly by Hurricane Sandy a few months prior and the remnants of broken trees and debris littered much of the woodland area. Deupree and Webb spent three days on the trails recording sounds and images which created direction and purpose for their album which was composed in the evenings in the 12k studio.

The resulting Wood, Winter, Hollow traces a rustic path of the days in the woods with an equally natural soundset fronted by Webb on a nylon string guitar. Bells, sticks, melodica and the occasional analog synthesizer form the sonic backdrop echoing the quiet, but lively sounds of the winter forest. Endemic field recordings, including hydrophones placed in near-frozen streams, became an integral part of the work creating a subtle narrative that places the album in its specific place in time.

The subtle crackle of a slow flowing creek working its way through a cover of ice and frozen leaves. The faint whistle of the pale leaves of the beech tree that defy mother nature by clinging to their tree’s spindling branches against the push of winter winds. The cacophony of whispered raindrops running off infrastructure and hundred year old stone structures. These are the sounds that inspire and infuse Wood, Winter, Hollow. The rawness of winter in a world clinging to fragments of warmth." [label info]

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"...On the first release we meet and greet label boss Taylor Deupree who meet up with Seaworthy - a real meeting up, in Deupree's studio, near Ward Pound Ridge, where the two of them went for a walk and recording, especially of broken trees and debris, following a hurricane months earlier. In the studio they added in the evening nylon string guitar, banjo, e-bow, noises, loops, effects, jupiter 8 and percussion. This is very much something that I would expect to sound like this. In recent times 12K flirted a bit with pop music, but perhaps more with improvised music in combination with field recordings and very little electronica (synthesizers, loops). They are here, the electrical bits, but we hear them buzzing in the background, very softly, not outspoken and the thing we do hear is the tinkling of a guitar, the solitary bell sound of a glockenspiel, the metallic string of the banjo and the walking through leafy wood areas, and ducks in a pond. Not a very wintery release, as the title suggests, nor the titles which no doubt refer to the dates they were recorded (February 21 and 22 of this year). The crackling of branches sound like a cozy campfire, and Cameron Webb - the man of Seaworthy - playing his campfire songs but doesn't sing. Highly melancholic stuff indeed. Nothing new under the sun for either artist, nor for the label - if you keep up with it's movements." [FdW/Vital Weekly]