Cloak by Russ Young

This new work is influenced by my surrounding environment in the Western Lake District in Cumbria. Each track is a natural evolution that explores themes touched upon in my previous releases. Preoccupations with aquatic textures, underwater pianos, a nocturnal atmosphere and fragments from my everyday life merge and overlap. Most of this work has a softly saturated, almost molten character that I associate with the late evening or fading light.

Musically, my main strategy for ‘Cloak’ was to work with groupings of processed samples and improvisations made over a long period of time. Saved recordings from weeks, months and years ago (whose source is now long forgotten) collide and blend with recent improvisations. I favour an intuitive process of trial and error, sculpting the layers and seeing how it evolves. I am working with material that I am conscious I have made, but which I’m no longer familiar with. This is a strange feeling but provides me with a sense of freedom or sometimes mystery as to how it all fits together in unexpected combinations.

Russ Young (b.1988, Lincoln) is a UK based producer. His work is an exploration of sound design and electro acoustic composition. Drawn towards detailed textures, drones and simple melodies, Russ Young’s music is a dynamic collage of assembled audio.