the wayfarer & the son

by asylumpeace

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Cloudland Blue Quartet So wonderful to finally have a new album from asylumpeace. In places, this calls to mind the work of David Sylvian on "Gone to Earth" and there's a certain Frippian-ness about some of the material. But also, a folky element. Please do sit down for 55 minutes and give this LP a well-earned listen Favorite track: cities under the sand.

Nathan Duin At long last. As previously stated, this is an artist well deserving of a much wider audience. This record is already bringing me great joy and it just came out today. Fantastic. Do yourself a favor. Favorite track: perceptible light (leaks into dark corridors).

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1.	dawn departure 03:19		buy track
2.	aurora, a-raoir 03:22		buy track
3.	perceptible light (leaks into dark corridors) 03:50		buy track
4.	crossing the winterbourne 04:04	info	buy track
5.	I knew from the size of the hole in my chest... 01:24		buy track
6.	cities under the sand 09:24	info	buy track
7.	rathlin interlude 04:29		buy track
8.	the wayfarer & the son pt.1 (pilgrim path) 05:09		buy track
9.	the wayfarer & the son pt.2 (age to ask) 05:18	lyrics	buy track
Beyond our lights’ extrusion, Blind of telescopic confusion, These ploughed august eyes and my October son Pale beneath ceilings of fusion-encrusted seams; Where the diamond dark, A holy dark most fitting to talk of Cause Confounds his autumn unquestioning heart, Portending closing doors and closing days; Surely now the age to ask. And so he does. (from 'Compass & Sail', by C. Andreas; see website for full poem)
10.	tayeko 01:22	info	buy track
11.	the wayfarer & the son pt.3 (levelling place) 06:17		buy track
12.	tigris 07:36		buy track

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“This has felt, for various reasons, like my most ambitious and challenging- to-complete project to date. I am grateful to now feel able to share these as ever lo-fi and technically modest recordings. I thank you from the heart for your interest in them and hope even one or two of the pieces may resonate in some way emotionally. It was never planned to be, but the whole collection seems to take the listener on a journey of sorts. Or so it’s been suggested. As if it chose of its own accord to take on this aspect in some way...?"

Christopher Andreas

credits

released October 29, 2024

Christopher Andreas:

12-string electric, 12- & 6-string acoustic, resonator guitars; e-bow; octave mandola; mandolin; low whistles (D & G); whistles (D&C); keyboard; harmonium; loops; Numark X9; field recordings; voice

Some field recording samples are credit to Freesound Creative Commons License: 167806_kristian_mann_autobahn; 392106__metzik__fence

Voice on 'aurora, a-raoir': unknown singer heard on long wave Gaelic radio station very late one night, “many years ago...”

Voice on 'cities under the sand': Erich Fromm

Reading on 'crossing the winterbourne': excerpt from poem 'Song at the Beginning of Autumn', by Elizabeth Jennings (using Dynavox AAC technology)

Reading on 'the wayfarer & the son part ii': from poem 'Compass & Sail', by Christopher Andreas (full poem on website)

Recorded at Stúdíó Tré, Scotland

Produced, mixed and mastered by Christopher Andreas

Photography & Design by Christopher Andreas

Special thanks and affection to:
Frances R, Steve Justin, Brian Ross, Jon Michaelson – for all their support and encouragement.

Sound recordings ℗ & © 2024 Christopher Andreas & Stúdíó Tré

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asylumpeace Edinburgh, UK

...My search to produce sounds that are part of my personal emotional loop, and the hope that they may touch or tap into that of a listener, has led me to piece together these modest, essentially lo-fi recordings. I lay them before anyone who is so very kind-enough to listen as my rendition of landscape, environment and relationships.

With grateful thanks, Christopher Andreas ... more