Silence Of The North, by Frank Baker

Silence Of The North

by Frank Baker

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Scott "Alone" is such an unsettling track! The album explicitly asks for my attention only once in a while, otherwise overall is a remarkable ambient excursion that gives me space and time to think. Favorite track: Silence Of The North III.

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1.	Silence Of The North 03:40	buy track
2.	Night Walk 02:16	buy track
3.	Enter The Night 02:00	buy track
4.	Submarines 04:32	buy track
5.	Lateral 02:43	buy track
6.	Black Rose Pendulum 02:48	buy track
7.	Canned Cold 03:37	buy track
8.	Stitches 04:17	buy track
9.	Silence Of The North II 03:58	buy track
10.	Alone 03:54	buy track
11.	When We Used To Be Brothers 01:56	buy track
12.	Silence Of The North III 06:31	buy track

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Frank Baker is a composer/producer from Stuttgart, Germany who has mainly released music through his own label Frank Baker Music. He began recording guitar back in 1999 with cassette tape experiments and began recording under his own name around 4 years ago with his debut ‘Noctilucent’ being released in winter 2013. He also records Ambient/Drone material as Noonsize and Post-Rock as Hawks From The Ocean Abyss.

In Silence Of The North, we have a generous twelve track offering centred around recordings from a 1970s Yamaha grand piano as an imaginary soundtrack inspired by the Northern Hemisphere. Frank spent around 3 hours one evening, sat at the piano as he improvised into the dead of the night. The material has been whittled down to a dozen short pieces, and a familiar thread returns throughout the record which tells a story much like a movie. With the piano at the heart of everything, the sound is naturally cinematic and references colder climes with Frank having been inspired by visits to Canada and Scandinavia. Frank’s main idea was to record an album that characterises silence and whilst the lonely old piano would evoke that alone, his added sound design featuring prepared-sounding piano strings, cavernous noise and found sounds programmed into Logic delve further into the ideas of loneliness, isolation and silence.

With its clear film soundtrack aesthetic, it would be all too easy to reference classical music – Frank points out that he is not a piano player but instead, he used the piano notes to paint his picture in what has more to do with Ambient music than classical. As humans tend to search for warmth and reside nearer to the equator, Silence Of The North embraces a stark coldness that is often ever presence within the lesser populated Northern Hemisphere. Recommended if you like Hauschka, Nils Frahm or Dakota Suite.

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released June 28, 2016

Written, produced and mastered by Frank Baker
Photography by Frank Baker

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