Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson – Fältinspelningar Från Terres De L’Ebre LP

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Experimental ambient and field recordings from Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson via XKatedral (audio sampler from digital source, 2 min from each song)

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Artist: Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson
Title: Fältinspelningar från Terres de l’Ebre
Format: Dark green vinyl 12″
Label: Xkatedral
Cat nr: XK17
Genre: Experimental ambient/Field recordings

Tracklist

A1 Litania 7:10
A2 Atypi 11:55
B1 40°42’43​.​564″N 0°40’59​.​112″E 12:54
B2 Utevaro 3:57
  • Mastered By – Mats Erlandsson
  • Music By – Maria W. Horn, Mats Erlandsson

Limited edition of 300 copies on dark green vinyl. Originally released as XK10 on cassette under.a different artist name.

In August of 2016 Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson traveled to Balada in the Terres de I’Ebre region of Catalonia, Spain, for a two-week residency courtesy of the Eufonics festival in collaboration with EMS. The geographical characteristics a visitor first encounters in the Terres de I’Ebre delta are defined by the development of industrial agriculture. Endless rice fields stretch through the flat landscape, framed by canals of water to sustain growth. Even the air is saturated with a vague scent of rice. This transmutation of the soil impacts the sonic environment, the buzzing of the irrigation system, the hypnotic constant chirping of crickets, the loud bang from the water pump that echoes through the delta at regular intervals.

Taking the opportunity to collaborate on a project specifically made within the context of the aural environment they found themselves in, and using the resources available to them, the pair decided to make a musical work based entirely on field recorded material transformed through extensive digital editing and processing. Working quickly in the isolation offered by the residency they recorded found material at night and spent the days shaping these recordings into four compositions that move on a dense continuum between drone, noise and generative music all imprinted with the textural characteristics of the immediate surroundings of that time and place.

Through the four compositions the work shows a sonic imprint of an environment shaped by human hands over an almost endless period of time, as heard through the ears of two transient visitors processing their sliver of time in the area as it was unfolding to them.

The resulting music was performed in concert during the Eufonics festival of 2016 and was originally released on cassette tape by XKatedral in 2017 under the moniker Dufwa. For this vinyl reissue in collaboration with Boomkat the material has been remixed by Erlandsson and Horn and remastered for vinyl by Daniel M Karlsson.

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Weight 0,3 kg
Dimensions 31 × 31 × 0,3 cm
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