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Odes

by Arber

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1.
Omery 03:46
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2.
Drake 04:52
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3.
Montgomery 05:42
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4.
Araby 03:34
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5.
Sheridan 03:04
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6.
Omar 06:29
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Alessio 04:30
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Ethan 03:03
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Jopling 03:47
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Gabriel 06:02
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Lincoln 06:42
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12.
Milan 08:05
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about

One of the rules I made for myself when starting this record was that I wouldn't use any synthesizers at all. As such, while parts of this album present as "electronic", it is more or less an acoustic record, and each sound was organically made.

The sounds on track 8, for example, were made by playing glockenspiels and vibraphones with violin bows and soft beaters, and track 4 was made entirely with a harmonium. Even the apparently electronic backdrop sounds on tracks like 1 and 6 were made by filtering and reprocessing the main instrument (either an upright piano, a Yamaha CP80 Electric Grand, or a Rhodes), and having this play in parallel to the main performance.

This is a step into slightly new territory for me: seeing exactly how much I could extract from a single sound-source, using various sound treatment effects that I have developed in my studios over the last fifteen years. Apart from track 8 (which is made up of loops) everything was made in one take, and there is never more than one instrument playing at the same time. Only a handful of pieces were pre-composed going into the studio; everything else was improvised and only slightly edited later, for clarity.

Brian Eno once said that improvisational recordings sound fresh because "the rate of discovery, and the emotional tempo, match those of the listener", and for similar reasons this record feels very alive and un-worked-over, to me. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I have had working on it over the past two years.

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released July 21, 2023

Written, performed and produced by Daniel Land between 2020 and 2022, except:

Track 1 briefly features the voice of Ian McGinn, who recorded my original improvisation of this track at Exeter Central Library on December 2004

Track 2 originally written in 1997 (when I was 16)

Track 6 originally written in 1996

Track 9 written and recorded in one take at the Castle Primary School, Tiverton, Devon, November 2011.

In memory of Harold Budd and Mark Taylor.

DL catalogue number: HBDL2302

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Arber is the project name for Daniel Land's piano compositions.

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