Blue Sleep by Lydian Dunbar
From Lydian Dunbar
The colour blue is very restful for me. I can look up at the sky or out at the ocean and feel calm. It holds me, and I feel like I can breathe it in very deeply.
One day not long ago after a surf in Byron Bay, me and my good friend Randy found a shelter someone had made on the beach from sticks and branches. It looked like a hut, a shelter from the heat of the sun. We crawled into the shelter and laid down. I looked up through the sticks to see the blue sky and soon I was asleep.
I wanted to make an ambient album about that day. I have lots of electronic instruments that I use with Tralala Blip but with my solo project I wanted to use my beloved harmonicas. They are an instrument that is very special to me.
Randy and I went back to the studio with my harmonicas, a small granular modular system, my voice and not much else. We went out a few times to collect sounds from the beach and surrounding area using a zoom recorder and an EMF recorder made by Soma Labs.
Tracklist
| 1. | Dust Motor Reduction | 3:16 |
| 2. | Blue Sleep | 5:01 |
| 3. | A Whale Is Dreaming Me | 5:39 |
| 4. | Beach Shelter | 3:16 |
| 5. | Sky Hum | 5:36 |
| 6. | Dust Motor Full | 5:46 |
| 7. | Soft Fingers Of The Monster | 5:40 |
| 8. | Ballina Breakwall | 6:13 |
Credits
Lydian Dunbar: harmonicas, melodica, field recorder, Soma Ether EMF recorder, TC-Helicon Voicelive Touch, two granular samplers in a small modular system, Soma Lyra-8.
Produced by Lawrence English at Negative Space.
Special thanks to Randolf Reimann for studio support.
License
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