Pororari River Mouth, by Paintings of Windows

Pororari River Mouth

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Ostensibly an electroacoustic project Antony Milton's Paintings of Windows project has always been explicitly about place, manipulating recordings of particular spaces - sometimes with instruments being played but just as frequently using 'pure' field recordings- and manipulating these in order to draw out the remembered subjective emotional essence of those locations.
Whilst this essential modus operandi is retained 'Pororari River Mouth' represents a radical departure in terms of sonics and is far more explicitly musical than previous PoW releases. There has always been a meditative ethereal psychedelic character to PoW pieces but on this record one could fine oneself in danger of drooling into their beard.
The location this time is Punakaiki, a small settlement on the wild West Coast of the South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand, a place where crytalline limestone rivers drop from the mountains through rainforest to a ferocious rocky ocean. Milton spent a week here in April 2013 recording improvised chants and instrumental passages using battery operated synthesiser and sampler, these recordings were typically made at dusk as this seemed the time when the inspiration of the land/sea-scapes were at their most intense. The rush and whisper of ocean waves is perhaps the most dominat of voices here.
Be aware that the resulting album of works, down to the very titles themselves, is very reminiscent of 1980's ambient music, most particularly that of the more left field and eccentric New Age composers. This is not so much intended as irony as tribute to a hopefulness and sense of simple wonder that is all to easy to mock.
The record comes with a 30 minute DVD featuring a film Milton made to go along with the music.
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Limited edition lathe cut record (and Peter Kings done a particularly good job on these ones) + DVD + Digital Download.
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released July 30, 2013

released 31 July 2013
All tracks recorded by Antony Milton at Punakaiki, West Coast, South Island, Aotearoa/New Zealand during April 2013.
Field Recordings, Analogue Synthesiser, Sampler, Voice.
Thanks to Sara, Pedro, Ross and Lynda.

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