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Q: With a moniker like “Ambient Landscape”, how can a Jazz series make any sense?
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‘elements_windows’ began as a trilogy – to be sure. And upon what I thought was completion . . . [there it was: signed, sealed delivered] – the scattered remnants of the project began to cry out for another set.
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And, ironically, the fourth might just be my favorite within the series. And, if I had to submit just one elements series/mix by which the entire brand would be represented . . . it’d be the ‘windows’ edition.
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Re-craft. Rework. Re-vision. Repurpose.
I’m all about tearing it apart & rebuilding from . . . ashes. If I don’t like a mix, the thought of its existence lingers like Morpheus’ “splinter in the mind”. It irritates & annoys – until I reformulate the sequence, add treatments or import different audio components.
Thus 3 begat 4 . . . and [finally] all is well with my universe.
I take my penchant for causticity [weird-guitar sounds, dilapidated saxophone, seemingly off-key piano, & unorthodox compositions] & transmogrify it into nuanced slabs of sound (formerly called ‘mixes’). What’s intriguing to me is that other folks like them too (@ least that’s what my Dropbox download metrics tell me)!
It (mixes), is almost exclusively the method via which I access my music. I rarely listen to albums, save a new ECM album (Nik Bartsch‘s ‘Awase‘ for example, or the about to be released Sun of Goldfinger). But, as the tracks get moved onto mix projects, I delete them on my phone menu & file the digital album into the ever expanding ethereal catalog.
This Jazz / Ether-Jazz series is slated for release beginning in March, 2019.