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Audiological Transmission #27​/​​​​​52​​​​​: Nine of Swords (Excerpt #1)

by Michael Tanner

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Audiological exploration excerpt #1 by Michael Tanner from the album Nine of Swords.

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Full download available at Mr Tanner's Ether Victrola:
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This was the third album released in our first spin-around-the-sun and was created via a process whereby nine tarot cards were allocated to nine sonorous, percussive instruments and played in the order of their drawing from the deck.

The complete album is a 54 minute or so journey for which sonorous is particularly apt word; it is immersive and enveloping, while at the same time it seems to hint at a quietly shimmering darkness just on the edge of things - restful, drifting and yet...

New age might also be an appropriate signpost but probably nearer in spirit to say work which could be found on Light In The Attic's I Am The Centre: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990 than the more obvious tropes of such things.


"This is an album to focus on and to pay attention to, perhaps an album for late nights or early mornings; there is something contemplative at heart here, this music invites reflection. The glistening of the water bowls merges into the gentle waves of temple bells, at times creating a solid, reverberating mass whilst at others a more distant echo. There is great beauty in this recording, nothing is rushed and the sound is crystalline and pure. The world outside seems to grow quieter around the music, as if in step. This is not easy listening however, but a demanding and focused album which commands your complete attention."

Grey Malkin on Nine of Swords at The Active Listener:
active-listener.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/michael-tanner-nine-of-swords.html


Revisitation #3:
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/audiological-transmission-27-of-52-nine-of-swords-excerpt-1-michael-tanner/

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released July 7, 2016

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The A Year In The Country project is a set of year-long journeys through spectral fields - explorations of an otherly pastoralism, the outer reaches of folk culture & the spectres of hauntology.

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