A single 40 minutes piece in 6 movements,
a sublime evolving soundscape.
"Unlike our other ambient works such as 'The Meditation Loops', and 'The Silent and Beyond', we sought to sculpt these pieces in a different way.
The album's title was chosen during the beginning of these sessions. And the interpretations, themes, and sensations relating to wind, air, and breath, were very conscious in our minds while creating.
In particular, certain sense memories...
Since childhood we have had an obsession with the casuarina tree. In Zac's first childhood home in rural Victoria, Australia, there was a very tall casuarina which he would climb, and use as a makeshift crow's nest. Observing his juvenile territory from on high. But besides the convenience of accessing this large sentinel in his own backyard, the branches and nettles of the tree would shape and transform the air into an eerie howl during soft to moderate breezes. One of nature's drones perhaps?
These memories run deeply, and are triggered in adulthood on occasion. If we happen to pass one of these trees on a walk, no matter what the circumstance we will stop everything and listen in awe to the ghostly, yet comforting sound created by the branches and nettles.
Wind Music is the channelling, and interpretation of these primal sense memories through musical sound."
- Holly and Zac
Winterwood
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East Cape Calling
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released December 16, 2022
Played and recorded by Holly and Zac using undetermined sound sources. Field Recordings by Kent Macpherson.
Mastering by James Edward Armstrong.
Photos by Pier-Luc Tremblay
Design by Anne-Julie Dudemaine.
Original painting "The Rooftops of Ostend" by James Ensor.
(1885, oil on canvas)