Product Info LP : Released 03/09/2021 More Info As a conductor, curator and arranger, Robert Ames has been a key exchange agentbetween the classical tradition and contemporary music. co-Founding the LondonContemporary Orchestra fresh out of the Royal Academy of Music, Robert went onto work like; conducting Jonny Greenwood’s Oscar Nominated score for the filmPhantom Thread , strings for Frank Ocean’s Blonde , arranging and conducting showsfor Little Simz and Sigur R ó s frontman J ó nsi, as well as a longstanding relationshipwith composer Actress, producing and writing on on his 2020 album Karma & Desire .With the LCO he has worked closely with the minimalist geniuses of the 20 th centurylike Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Philip Glass as the orchestra proselytized theirworth to a new generation. Just before her passing in 2016, Ames conducted aspecial version of Pauline Oliveros Rock Piece with rock’s from Britain’s Suffolkcoastline.It’s with this deep apprehension and wide practice that Robert turned his focus towriting his debut record; a breathtaking, seemingly infinitely generative stream ofsonic consciousness, made for a meditative mental gaze. Robert’s unique use of20th c. electronic techniques and Western tradition annotation saw him slow downrecordings, annotate the slow-motion versions, then re-recorded them. This way heformed layers of audio and written music, a geological contouring of the soundscape.This addition of manual information evolution counter-intuitively found a royal road tothe unconscious.“The majority of the album was written and recorded between April - May 2019 in mysmall studio in the Peak District” explains Robert (the Peak District is a famed uplandarea in the North of England known for its wide panoramas of valleys and gorges,cut through a limestone plateau) . “I naturally found myself drawing on sounds frommy childhood. The echoes of choirs and organs in large spaces, distant church bells,large symphonic gestures crackling through an old car stereo, competing with thelow hum and rumble of wheels on the road and the cacophony of orchestras slowlytuning up. I resisted the temptation of using discernible tempos and time signaturesto give a feeling of timelessness. I like the idea that each track sounds like it’s goingon a journey that is infinite and what is recorded is just a snapshot of somethingmuch longer. I started by layering up multiple recordings of myself on the violin andviola as well as recording vocals. I would often slow down these recordings so theywere unrecognisable, notate the recordings as sheet music and re-record the sheetmusic. I would go through this process several times until I had something that Ienjoyed listening to.”The record has features from LCO Lead Violinist and One Little Independent signedcomposer Galya Bisengalieva as well as the Steam Down affiliated harpist andcomposer Nala Sinephro. At a time when worldly activity is minimal, Change Ringingis a sublime inner flight, an impossible object, in flux and focus at the same moment. Tracklist Peal Change Ringing Tympanum Dispersion Cinque Rounds Soundwave
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