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A Hard Singing of Country

by Simon Opit

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PadraigC I love the tension between the natural field recordings and the darker electro elements, really holds the listeners attention. Favorite track: one.
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one 07:21
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two 07:21
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three 04:14
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four 04:30
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five 03:16
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six 03:36
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seven 09:52

about

There are no two more different landscapes than the same under altered skies. (James Bowling Mozley,1876)

According to David Reason, in his contribution to the exhibition catalogue The Unpainted Landscape (Coracle Press 1987) , “Landscapes change; and change is itself an intrinsic aspect of our experience of landscape. [It is] a polyrhythmic composition of processes whose pulse varies from the erratic flutter of leaves to the measured drift and clash of tectonic plates. […] the view for us seems to create a patina of transience on apparently stable forms.”

A Hard Singing of Country isn’t a work of documentary phonography but instead uses recorded sound as a shorthand for our intimation of meaning into landscape and how our experience of place, in turn, inflects our understanding of ourselves. Often that experience can provide a strong sense of confirmation (of being/feeling ‘alive’) while at the same time, ask questions of it – namely, what is open to change and what is not? Somewhere, unintentionally, feelings are threaded into these tracks even if they’re just how it feels for me to be amongst the sounds I hear.

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released September 24, 2021

Field recordings, computer and software.

Thanks to Louis Opit for his patience and willingness to help solve my various technical issues as well as providing a first class set of (critical) ears. Nevertheless, all deficiencies are mine alone.

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Simon Opit Edinburgh, UK

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