Distant Scenes, by Ashlar

Distant Scenes

by Ashlar

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watty this dropped into my box during a blood moon and a family tragedy...as i lay watching the night sky in a darkened room it transported and held me...all happenchance but sometimes in this world of music.overload and depth, trying to catch a passing train is a bewildered bystanders only option ...i cant put my finger on it but somewhere in there it reminded me of a stripped down Genteman Losers ..

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Ashlar are British duo Wil Bolton from London and Phil Edwards from The Wirral, Liverpool. They began collaborating around 2011 ahead of their debut release ‘Saturday Drones’ on Time Released Sound and followed this up with ‘St. James' Gardens’ on Hibernate Recordings in 2014.

These albums were the result of lazy Saturday afternoons spent in various public houses in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter which were followed by evenings spent jamming in Wil’s studio. In the early days, both artists were residents of the city, meaning impromptu recording sessions could be arranged with relative ease. However, after the first two albums Wil relocated back to London, which meant that when they began to work together again, a very different approach was necessary. Instead of jamming and producing together, they worked remotely, usually initiated by the sharing of recordings, which were then added to, processed and bounced back and forth until the final tracks emerged.

With ‘Distant Scenes’ most of the sounds began as piano loops (played by Wil) and acoustic guitar parts (played by Phil), which were heavily processed and re-processed several times using both software effects and guitar pedals. Where the first two albums featured environmental sounds from the local area, the field recordings here were made by both artists separately, in wildly varied locations including Japan, Korea and the UK.
Unlike their initial work, this new method of working has taken a great deal longer to fully realise, given that the process was less immediate and more meticulous.

Distant Scenes is an album built around distance, time and space as their different recording locations inspired new but separate ideas. A warm but blurry canvas has been woven over a four year period, as time has rusted the memories of the good old days spent jamming on their earlier albums and newer ideas have been corroded into a melancholic fuzz.

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released July 20, 2018

Written and produced by Wil Bolton and Phil Edwards
Mastered by Wil Bolton

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UK based experimental record label established in 2016, specialising in highly limited runs of vinyl-effect CDrs. We specialise in Ambient, Modern Classical and Electro Acoustic music.

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wlr-t03

Dec 2019
Lowlands

Nov 2019
Timecuts

Nov 2019
Green Echo

Oct 2019

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