Ambient 2: I Can Sing A Rainbow

by Andrew Howie

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Michael Mathy sometimes this track freaks me out with its atmosphere but that is why I love it.

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This 60-minute ambient piece was originally released as a free gift for anyone who bought 'The Quiet In The Land', a noisy electronic record I released under the name Calamateur in 2011.

This new version has been tweaked and re-mixed at home, then lovingly re-mastered by Steve Lawson.

The piece is comprised of seven musical phrases (one for each colour of the rainbow) which repeat at mathematically pre-determined points throughout the song's one-hour duration, often overlapping in unforeseen and fortuitous ways. These seven phrases play out over a background of ever-evolving noises that represent the earth's elements.

Inspirations for this album include Brian Eno's 'Thursday Afternoon' and 'Neroli' (both themselves 1-hour-long pieces), Moby's 33-minute 'Hymn.Alt.Quiet.Version', The KLF's 'Chill Out', and the works of Steve Lawson and Susumu Yokota.

I wrote a blog post about how I made the album here:
andrew-howie.com/the-making-of-i-can-sing-a-rainbow/

And here's a one-hour-long video I made for the piece:
youtu.be/Hy8lLrj0kw8

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released January 6, 2017

Written, played, recorded and produced at home by Andrew Howie.

Mastered by Steve Lawson: www.stevelawson.net

Cover photo by Stephen McLeod @ www.allmyfriendsarejpegs.com
Cover design by Alister MacInnes.

Released on Autoclave Records. CLAVE019.

www.autoclaverecords.com

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Andrew Howie Scotland, UK

Andrew Howie is a Scottish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist & community music tutor who has been writing, recording and releasing his own music for over two decades.

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