Sonic coloring pages1/8/2024 ![]() The past is only ever the past, so is there really a point in focusing on it to this degree?īut you, dear listener, did not come here to read my babbling philosophizing, at least I hope you didn't. Perhaps, this is because I have already done the work? And in doing so, I've come to some kind of terms with what it was attempting to organize and frame? Or, perhaps I am ten years older, and there's no longer a sense that I should keep these memories around, or write everything down, proverbially speaking. For all of its fixation on self-analysis and location reference, the work I did on Inland (and by extension, Pawleys Island) feels less important now than it did before. Truly, life has changed immensely for me and for my music, across the last decade, and recordings like Inland only serve to highlight this disparity. 'Has it really been ten years already?' is a question I find myself asking far too often these days, and I shudder to think how aged I'll feel my work has become in ten more years. So here we are, years later, together in longing for that same happy sleep."ġ0TH ANNIVERSARY, REFLECTIONS ON LAND, NOVEMBER 1 2022: Stoned, worn out from a long night of work or partying (or both) and driving home in the early morning hours to sleep and dream of the blissful shores I would one day tread in my creative travels. Inland By Night is an approximated reimagining of those same Pawleys Island memories. The movements from PI will no doubt be recognizable, although they are considerably altered in pace, processing, tone and color, and both sides have been backed by an assemblage of field recordings: the exact length of a car drive from the beach in Surfside to my father's home in rural Loris, complete with the subtle sounds of tire traction on pavement, layered carefully alongside recordings of the sun rising at dawn over a humid marsh. I think it is important to note that the songs on Inland By Night are not merely beatless counterparts of PI material, rather they are entirely their own identities, memories and locations. Dedicating myself to the pursuit of such a notion, I began recording this album of ambient versions of Pawleys pieces somewhere near the last 1/4 of the recording sessions for the album proper. Taking these thoughts into consideration along with the fact that the nostalgic territories Pawleys mined were just as connected to records like Selected Ambient Works II, Walter Carlos' Sonic Seasonings and early orchestral influences like Satie and Debussy, it became clear to me that there was a beautiful ambient album hiding beneath the waves of Pawleys Island. During the creation and recording of the Pawleys songs, I realized just how much love and expression I funneled into the melodies and composition, despite the album largely being carried in a very rhythmic techno-inspired vehicle. "In October of 2011, the massive concept double-album Pawleys Island was issued first on an intimate edition of 20 copies on 2x cassette tape.
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