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Drifting and Phasing

by Kowalski Room

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Autumn Bells 09:09
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Was It You? 09:13
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A Rose 08:48
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Breathe 06:30
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Modern 12:31
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The Voyager 06:23
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about

Over the past few years, I have been exploring minimalism. My music tends to sound expansive. I've been looking at ways to use less ingredients in music and just how little I can use to still create an interesting and pleasing piece of music.

In the summer of 2017, I begin experimenting with phasing, a technique used by Steve Reich in his piece 'It's Gonna Rain'. I don't have access to two reel to reel tapes recorders so my experiments were purely digital and used a range of techniques similar but not quite the same of Steve Reich.

I start with a short clip - music, field recordings or found sounds - and loop it. It is usually something quite simple but with some interesting colours. I play a second loop of the same thing over the top but slightly out of sync. The two layers of the same sound then interact and create new atmospheres, rhythms and motifs. I find it mesmerising. It means that a short clip, sometimes only a few seconds in length, can become a very long piece of experimental ambient music.

At first, I did not reveal who was making this music. I felt my identity might come with a lot of preconceptions about what the music should be. While most of this is ambient, some is much more experimental - looping barely heard conversations, layers of a delivery truck reversing or the sound of water rolling along the side of a lake. I wanted to be free to experiment.

Now that I feel like Kowalski Room has its own identity, I am happy to reveal who is squirreling away, making this music.

I'm really proud of this project. It is the kind of music I need to create. I hope you enjoy it too. There is plenty more to come.

You can find more at kowalskiroom.com


The music has been edited for this compilation.
Full versions can be found on the original albums.

01. Ripeness Made
from Swansong
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/swansong

02. Autumn Bells
from Life in Pictures
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/life-in-pictures

03. Voices of the Future
from I Can See Colours
Double CD and name-your-price download
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/i-can-see-colours

04. Was It You?
from Fading Memories
Double CD and name-your-price download
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/fading-memories

05. The Song of the Piano in the Night
from Two Minutes from Forever
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/two-minutes-from-forever

06. It's Used for Something
from Joy
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/joy

07. Mostly Ambient Intro
from Versions: A Mostly Ambient Radio Session
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/versions-a-mostly-ambient-radio-session

08. The Longest of Nights
from Tales of Winter
Double CD and name-your-price download
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-winter

09. The Heartbeat of Life
from We Are Travelling The Endless Highway
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-travelling-the-endless-highway

10. Strings of Angels
from Aberrations
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/aberrations

11. Drifting Light
from The Light Programme
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-programme

12. A Rose
from Talking at the Same Time
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/talking-at-the-same-time

13. Breathe
from Temple of Light
Triple CD and name-your-price download
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-light
Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O2v4jo6PIk

14. Modern
from Modern Urban Starlight
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/modern-urban-starlight

15. The Voyager
from The Dance
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/the-dance

16. Echoes in the Mountains
from A Walk in the Park
Double CD and name-your-price download
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/a-walk-in-the-park

17. Song of the Starless Night
from City in the Sky
Double CD and name-your-price download
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/city-in-the-sky

18. Seeing Visions and Dreams
from A Beginner's Guide to Psychonautics
Double CD and name-your-price download
kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com/album/a-beginners-guide-to-psychonautics

credits

released October 16, 2018

All music written, performed and produced by Brin Coleman
at MCos, Manchester.

Cover design and photography by Brin Coleman.
Front cover photograph: Sunrise near Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 2015.

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Music and sounds for those who like to listen and drift.

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