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Free Time

by Ov Pain

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Fascia
2.
Kikorangi 04:24
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3.
Slouching Toward Erehwon
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Comparative Advantage
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Well Defined Utter Oblivion 03:09
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Slander
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Pusillanimous

about

With respect to the making of Free Time here’s what Tim says:

All the tracks are basically live improvisations. We recorded four different synthesizers – two apiece – straight into a computer pulled from a skip.

There was no the-agony-of-the-blank-page associated with it. Nor was there a great plan. There was our second bedroom studio, our instruments, a unified creative impulse, our free time. Late one morning we started, two days later we had more or less everything down. Following that we made some gentle edits, added some further live tracks. Then we replayed everything in the context of could-this-be-an-album? Arrived at the affirmative.

A couple of weeks after all this we both spontaneously remembered an interview with Heather Leigh in which she termed her process something like ‘improvised songwriting’. To some extent, I guess, this album represents an attempt at improvised songs. How easy or uneasy this work sits alongside our other stuff is of little importance to us (note 1 – improvising in low rent studios has been a feature of our lives for a while now; note 2 – we change our method often).

One thing that is important to us is the immediacy and economy with which it was made and how that immediacy and economy becomes the thing itself.

credits

releases November 7, 2025

This is a Guide To Saints edition.

Credits
Mastered Lawrence English at Negative Space
Photography Freya Copeland
Recording & Production Ov Pain 2025

Acknowledgement
Ov Pain acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung & Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Eastern Nation as the owners and traditional custodians of the land on which this album was conceived and recorded. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

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