SE18, by At Swim

SE18

by At Swim

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alucidnation Short sketches maintain interest, each track bears repeated listens. Excellent use of obscure samples which pique the interest. Beautiful and engaging ambience. More people need to hear this!

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1.	Face(s) 02:01	info	buy track
2.	Tide and time 02:18		buy track
3.	Oxleas 02:01		buy track
4.	Isle of Grain 02:25		buy track
5.	Dior in SE18 04:53		buy track
6.	Canvey Island 02:22		buy track
7.	Lee side drift 02:09		buy track
8.	Trust 04:26		buy track
9.	Ashes in a saltwater pool 02:45		buy track
10.	Heywood 03:17		buy track
11.	Awake 03:15		buy track
12.	Fieldwork 05:21		buy track
13.	Always in doubt 04:04		buy track
14.	Wraiths 02:16		buy track
15.	A sense of things to come 05:33		buy track

about

SE18; why?

A reflection of the SE18 of childhood, revisiting in recent times, and perspectives from the other side of the Thames Estuary.

Home and motive to leave.
Views over the city.
Music and bedrooms.
Suburbs of safety and danger.
Dark woods and highwaymen.

Born as live recordings of improvisations, punctuating conversations; revisited in a DAW and given perspective as their linear flow is broken and reconstructed.

A straight road to the sea. The stream starts here…

Keith Rowe: “I have become increasingly preoccupied with atmosphere, in particular the kind of atmosphere that one finds surrounding a Mark Rothko painting. It seems to me that when one is the in the presence of a Rothko work, but also when one has departed and on reflection, I’m not struck by ‘phew’, what great brush strokes, what an incredible technique, what a painter, but derive more a feeling of the surrounding atmosphere, its sensation. Somehow I wanted to move what I’m doing (intention) towards this notion of atmosphere, an activity where we are not aware of technique, of instrument, of playing, of music even, but as feeling/sensation suspended in space. Perhaps this is what Feldman meant by music as time, energising the air, making the silence (un-intention) audible.”

“We conceive of memories, and of life, as information units, rather than as living things within our heads. Things get deleted with almost no trace…”
From headstuff.org/entertainment/music/caretaker-everywhere-end-time/

credits

released July 26, 2021

All instruments and treatments by Ben Ackland and Paul Gathercole.
Improvised and recorded live in the Guest Room, London between July and December 2020.
Edited and mixed at the Gatehouse, London.
Mastered by Pete Fletcher at Black Bay Studio, Outer Hebrides.

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At Swim London, UK

London-based duo described as ‘the archetypal British odd couple’ who make ‘moving mood music for the melancholic.’ Guitar and fretless bass patterns woven into abstract sound layers, punctuated with live sampling. A bouillabaisse of possible memories. ... more

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