Below The Noise, by Andy Cartwright

Below The Noise

by Andy Cartwright

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This special limited edition release is in a run of 100 copies, modeled around the classic gatefold vinyl LP. It includes printed front, rear and inner sleeves featuring photography by the artist, art/design by Andrew Heath and a card sleeve housing a printed vinyl-effect CDr.

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1.	Signal Loss 04:10	buy track
2.	Missing Monologue 02:49	buy track
3.	Pine 04:26	buy track
4.	A Diary Now Emptied 03:18	buy track
5.	Re-space 03:12	buy track
6.	The Room in the Center of the Hole 03:56	buy track
7.	On a Clear Day 03:17	buy track
8.	Long Last 03:33	buy track
9.	Mended Environment 04:22	buy track
10.	Signal Gain 03:27	buy track
11.	Rumtek 02:53	buy track
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Andy Cartwright is an artist originally from Oxfordshire, UK who currently resides in the French Alps. Alongside his other projects Seabuckthorn and Mt Went, Andy’s work has been released through labels including Bookmaker Records, Lost Tribe Sound, Eilean, IIKKI, Fluid Audio, A Quiet Room Recording and, LAAPS. Andy’s taste in music flits between guitar-based bands and electronica; these sources of inspiration led to him creating electronic music under his own name since 2021 alongside the more acoustic-leaning work.

In this album, Andy departed from the more traditional song-writing style, in which he would normally play riffs and chords on a guitar before developing the composition. Instead, he headed straight for the computer. ‘Below the Noise’ is a series of microsound collages, built upon layered field recordings, synth drones and noises. Field recordings were captured on his phone, loaded into Ableton and then processed with lo-fi effects. Additional synth sounds were added and side-chained to a heavy noise track, which was muted. This reduced the track down almost into a microsound, which left lots of air and ghost fragments in the mix.

Andy was intrigued by the idea of filtering out all the harsh noise, as a mix technique to thin out the sounds. From here, the process led to the album’s name and overall concept. Traces of the original sound source can only be imagined, as it sits below the noise. The reduction method leaves us with this collection of dusty ambient drones, imbued with satisfying static and crackly ASMR textures.

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released June 10, 2023

Written and produced by Andy Cartwright
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Andy Cartwright
Art and design by Andrew Heath

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