This new release from Andrew Paine will
surprise those
who've heard his other releases - either as a solo artist, or recording
together with Richard Youngs, Alistair Crosbie and others.
'After Wednesday' is a single composition, a contemplative, yet
haunting, soundscape,
composed only from several layers of minimalistic piano and subtle,
processed field recordings. Recorded in Glasgow and on Holy
Isle,
it represents a turning point, a looking-outwards-and-onwards, and not
just in
musical terms. A very personal release, stunning in its simplicity.
One track.
Running time: 26:49 Reviews
Catalogue number: DU05.
Release date: 21 September 2009. Limitation:
100 copies. Photography by
Andrew Paine Design
by Brian Lavelle. Professionally duplicated colour print
disc,
packaged in a printed 4 panel colour and black and white booklet,
inside a plastic outer sleeve.
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Scott McKeating, Foxy Digitalis, 26 January 2010
Where much of Andrew Paine’s solo work has a progressive
rock/experimental bent, this is probably the most pure ambient/scape
piece he’s released to date. Just shy of 27 minutes long,
“After Wednesday” is a gorgeously skeletal blend of both
being-alone and loss formed from the seeds of empty room piano, gentle
free percussion and bird sound field recordings. Paine has made a
record that somehow feels outside of everyday reality, somewhere
outside of real life but still connected through melancholy and
remembrance. It’s also a record that finds itself placed between
two different aural environments. With bird recordings sounding like
they’re taken from deep in a wood, the artwork pushes the mind
towards the idea of post-dawn drifting across a lake. There’s a
kind of inward-looking detachment here, (making it tempting to want to
get in touch and ask if everything’s ok), “After
Wednesday” is a man’s quiet moments filtered through a
sparingly glitter-flecked fug. 9/10
"The dust had by then
ceased to
swirl, though I am sure it still lay thick on the room floor, the
floors of the other rooms, the passages, the stairs, the furniture, and
all our hearts."
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