Wood (excerpt) by 12k published on 2013-05-14T18:35:58Z The cold had a certain warmth to it. Worlds, life, among the layers of ice. Complex sounds, alive, found in the darkest rocks, wet with winter’s water. These hollows, rough with age, nature’s hideouts, were the source of inspiration and sounds for the first full-length collaborative effort from Seaworthy (Cameron Webb) and Taylor Deupree. Webb was plucked from a bushfire and flood-ridden east coast of an Australian summer and deposited via a 20h flight into a New York covered in snow. From wetlands abuzz with wildlife in the Australia to winter’s wooded trails through Pound Ridge, the sonic environments couldn’t have been more different. Working together in person has been an important point in Deupree’s collaboratinos lately. Much preferring the human interaction and local landscapes over the soulless exchange of sound files over the internet. With this point taken care of the pair struck out in a New York February to a 4,000 acre nature preserve near Deupree’s studio called Ward Pound Ridge, a park rich in history that supports a diverse range of plant and animal life. While the cold of winter kept most of the animals quiet the landscape nonetheless teemed with sounds. The local environment was hit badly by Hurricane Sandy a few months prior and the remnants of broken trees and debris littered much of the woodland area. Deupree and Webb spent three days on the trails recording sounds and images which created direction and purpose for their album which was composed in the evenings in the 12k studio. The resulting Wood, Winter, Hollow traces a rustic path of the days in the woods with an equally natural soundset fronted by Webb on a nylon string guitar. Bells, sticks, melodica and the occasional analog synthesizer form the sonic backdrop echoing the quiet, but lively sounds of the winter forest. Endemic field recordings, including hydrophones placed in near-frozen streams, became an integral part of the work creating a subtle narrative that places the album in its specific place in time. The subtle crackle of a slow flowing creek working its way through a cover of ice and frozen leaves. The faint whistle of the pale leaves of the beech tree that defy mother nature by clinging to their tree’s spindling branches against the push of winter winds. The cacophony of whispered raindrops running off infrastructure and hundred year old stone structures. These are the sounds that inspire and infuse Wood, Winter, Hollow. The rawness of winter in a world clinging to fragments of warmth. Genre alternative Comment by SOFDAD nice 2019-12-15T10:18:59Z Comment by SashaM I can also hear Snow Falling on the Cedars. 2015-05-15T06:18:34Z Comment by SashaM Is it intentional for the pitch to alter low to high quickly, almost erratically yet melodic. I almost hear Norwegian Wood, by the Beatles in this, in a quirky sense of the wood. 2015-05-15T06:17:49Z Comment by ATHO137 melting away from here 2014-11-15T19:41:41Z Comment by toshikun soft 2014-01-18T10:42:19Z Comment by Utu Lautturi And pausing. Thought provoking. 2013-12-16T19:40:15Z Comment by Utu Lautturi Pure bliss. 2013-12-16T19:39:58Z Comment by Klaonis I like it so much... 2013-09-27T19:08:09Z Comment by BABAU Love this glockenspielish sound 2013-06-06T19:07:08Z Comment by TheGreenKingdom Really simple and beautiful, perfect 2013-06-03T21:04:21Z Comment by Drosera magical... 2013-06-02T11:41:04Z Comment by Genoveva lovely 2013-05-23T11:45:00Z Comment by Frond nice and mellow. like the rainy backdrop 2013-05-21T13:38:28Z Comment by my_shattered_mind This sounds like it'd be great in a soundtrack for a movie. 2013-05-17T15:50:17Z Comment by sounds in noise can't wait for this! 2013-05-16T15:55:37Z Comment by rosy utting Beautiful 2013-05-16T13:05:24Z Comment by Jonina Aradottir music beautiful song ;) 2013-05-15T23:07:36Z Comment by losingtoday gorgeous 2013-05-15T00:18:41Z Comment by dramavinile more beauty than beauty... 2013-05-14T23:17:26Z Comment by Ajna Brilliant... 2013-05-14T20:04:00Z Comment by Porya Hatami this is beyond beautiful ! 2013-05-14T19:26:55Z