Night Passage, by Alan Lamb

Night Passage

by Alan Lamb

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magoski Under
above
does it mater?
what kind of ground
what kind of nature
what kind of emptiness
you endure
(why did you choose that word)
Ping! Ping! Sing Scream
spleen
ideal
me
empty
gray
clouds
17 minutes
to you
no more
not that ever mattered

Ping
Pow
Rip Tear Wide Open
exposed
to
You see me
as I am
waiitng for the night to pass
hoping that it forever lasts
just a minute more
A beloved iminute more
always
more
is
never
ending
Forever
With you
i
Favorite track: Night Passage.

peterschofielddesign The fact that such beauty is inherent within these materials imbues Lamb’s recordings with great spirituality to me. One that extends right out - eventually to the vibrations within all things.

diane Very much looking forward to these forthcoming editions. An intriguing interview by Chris Watson that gives excellent insight into Lamb's work using long wires: youtu.be/smnbq25q5gw?si=o7sBtK8Q-sGkUuCC
& some photos of the long wire poles at The Wired Lab: www.flickr.com/photos/thewiredlab/

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A note from Lawrence English
I’ll take a guess and say I first heard Alan Lamb’s Night Passage in 1999. Released by Darrin Verhagen’s seminal Dorobo label, the record birthed an approach that wove together themes of materialism, field recording and a reimagining of the abandoned utilities of human habitation.

Night Passage is one of those recordings I feel has always been with me, it’s that foundational. It completely reshaped the way a generation of audio explorers thought about how sound and music might exist in the orbit of each other.

On my first listen I’m confident I was unable to place exactly how these sounds were created, even knowing the source materials, but one thing I can say without reservation is their resonance has lingered with me these past couple of decades. The sound world Lamb captured, waves rippling along wires, was exquisitely simple, and effortlessly deep. Here, right before us, was a sound world locked within materials we pass by everyday. In tapping into these materials, Alan Lamb unlocked a parallel dimension of sense, one guided by interactions of objects and the environments surrounding them. An inorganic, living music the likes of which had not been readily available until the publication of his recordings.

Alan Lamb's work with long wires, undertaken in situ across Western Australia, are quite frankly the stuff of legend. To revisit them in such a focused way almost four decades on from their initial recording I’m struck by how other worldly and evocative they continue to be.

It’s with great pleasure we share Night Passage, completely remastered under the guidance of Alan himself.

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released November 1, 2024

Recorded and Edited 1983-1997.
Track 1 & 2 Mastered from the original analogue recordings.
Track 3 Recorded Live.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Design and production co-ordination by T.Pakioufakis
Special thanks to Darrin Verhagen

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