qd55 the shallow margins (the humble bee and fields we found) - tule - out now!

Digital and limited CD with long-form edition, six panel digipack and fine art print. Digital half-price until 30th Oct. Shipping as normal, including the EU and USA.

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/tule

Listening Party Thur 22nd Oct 19:00 UK - free to join, all welcome x

Craig is an essential part of quiet details, opening our series with qd01, and qd09 with Ian Hawgood - both quintessential embodiments of the label’s ethos. A legendary figure in the world of the most subtle and thoughtful music - Craig has a wonderful back catalogue on his own Cotton Goods and many other excellent labels.

I’m Alex, making music as fields we found and curating quiet details. It is my great fortune to work with Craig - we’ve know each other for a long time now and he’s a dear friend, and I consider him to be one of the most creative artists working today. Since recovering from lymphoma a couple of years ago, my musical outlook shifted in a deeply positive way - so the timing was perfect for us to start this project.

Inspired by a mutual love of ecology and fragments of sound, and the margins of our lives - shaped into musical form.

Quiet and textural - these pieces are a view through misted glass, clouded and suggesting a reflection on the layers found within. Emotions conveyed through hand-played instruments, magnetic tape and the patina of many generations of recording. 

Sharing sounds back-and-forth - piano, harmonium, field recordings, long free-form experiments from collections of instruments and more. Recorded and looped on multiple tape machines and old samplers - coaxing out the underlying sonic remnants, and bringing those traces into view. 

Endless thanks to Craig for his constant inspiration. 

Also the second run of the much-requested qd49 Sulk Rooms - they won’t hang around.

Read more

https://quietdetails.substack.com/p/qd55-the-shallow-margins-the-humble

Much love

Alex

I’m excited to go to Big Ears in Knoxville, TN next year, and wondered what ambient (or other) artists I should check out.

https://bigearsfestival.org

FAN-TAS-TIC album (2022).