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Let us go into the world
To see what we will find, you say
Lying there, unremarked
Embraced by rolling water,
Or the certainty of encircling hills
The ebb and flow of time
Leaves increments of change ...
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A stunning slice of ambient music. tapes and topographies consistently puts out wonderfully otherworldy releases, and as ever it is so nice to see this on Harry Towell's super Whitelaberecs label. Just perfect.
Favorite track: ontologies.
Limited deluxe edition gatefold vinyl-effect CD with 16 page booklet
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
This special limited edition soundtrack release is in a run of 100 copies, modeled around the classic gatefold vinyl LP. It includes printed front, rear and inner sleeves with polaroids by artist Jonathan S Hooper and design by Todd Gautreau. Inside the inner left sleeve, there is a special 16 page booklet of paintings, polaroids and liner notes from Jonathan S Hooper, revealing the full concept behind this collaboration. In the inner right sleeve is a white card sleeve which houses a printed vinyl-effect CDr.
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‘Floating World’ is an album by US based artist Todd Gautreau, who records as Tapes and Topographies. It was created in response to a collaboration project called Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island with British artist Jonathan S Hooper. The album follows last year’s ‘Amplitudes’ and is another entry to Todd’s discography, alongside music on labels such as Past Inside The Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own Simulacra Records.
Jonathan S Hooper is a mixed-media artist based in London, who works with paintings, photography, sculpture and film. Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island is an evolving multi-factorial project in which Hooper continues his exploration of ontological concepts of time and space through the landscapes of his native Cornwall. Specifically, the project focuses on a small uninhabited outcrop called Newland Island, which lies just off the Cornish coast in the Atlantic Ocean’s most westerly margins. The project’s title is inspired by Katushika Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints of Mount Fuji, drawing in Hooper’s broader interest in Japan’s artistic heritage. It also adds to the cultural connection between Cornwall and Japan first established in St Ives, in the 1920’s, through the collaboration of master potters Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji. A collaboration that continued through much of the twentieth century.
A particularly fascinating consideration is that Mount Fuji is an instantly recognisable geographic icon, yet in contrast, Newland Island is unknown to most. This frees the project from the limits of preconception, opening up opportunities to explore further ideas of landscape, and our place within it. Through collaboration with Gautreau (who is based some 5000 miles away), Hooper sought to give creative licence to a composer, in order to encourage another viewpoint. He had first discovered Todd’s music through Elizabeth Alker’s BBC Radio 3 Unclassified programme, and subsequently reached out to invite him to work on a soundtrack, which has now become ‘Floating World’. He sent photographs of his paintings, scans of the polaroids and his studio notes; the work developed organically into a collection of nine soundscapes, in which Hooper sees as independent views of Newland Island in their own right.
Hooper will be working to share this project through galleries and installations and we felt it was apt to assign full creative control over the CD packaging design to these two artists. Todd, also a graphic designer, has pulled together some of the polaroids for the outer and inner sleeves. There is a 16 page booklet included, which contains paintings, further polaroids and text from both artists. This is also included with the digital version of this album.
credits
released November 19, 2022
Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Paintings and polaroids by Jonathan S Hooper
Design by Todd Gautreau
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another gorgeous set from this artist that I cannot get enough of... contributions from fields we found take this to the next level... a lovely package all around... Ur Trommler
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an album for a ripe, late summer. emerging out of water, floating through the air and empty abandoned spaces in the dim beams of sunlight that stream through dusty windows, and sinking beneath the reeds again at day's end. it's a modern art museum that fits neatly on your CD shelf miso
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