Jon Collin - From a Petrified Forest

In 2013 this post on Microphones in the Trees helped me learn, jon collin / serfs. Did some listening but regrettably by the time a decision was made to purchase, the physical editions were gone. Many compositions by Jon Collin have been created between then and now. With the latest batch bundle from Garden Portal, Jon Collin's sound has been delivered with much appreciated delight. Accurately describing these guitar passages will take many listens, thoughts, words, scratched out words and much neophytic descriptive skill. With the goal of one more person finding the inner beauty Jon Collin prolifically shares, these sounds deserve all the attention for a undisturbed listen.

From a Petrified Forest was recorded earlier in the spring of this year. The location, Tyresta National Park, south and a little east of Stockholm, Sweden. The tracks have no names other than alphanumerical place holders. The composition starts with a field recording of Jon walking to a place presumably these creations are inspired by. Theses notes are the seasoning of pure natural beauty. The patience, skill, simplicity gently echoing from the surrounding water, rocks and vegetation. The outside breathes in the background, wind and water interchanging as guitar notes are both the brush strokes and the canvass. The connectivity between Jon Collin's melodies and the Tyresta surroundings is like a foggy mist saturating the entire forest floor. All is held in stasis for this briefly radiant composition. These sounds are fibers from a world of classical stringed music, then there is the second side. The guitar becoming it's own voice in the ring of the flora and fauna around it. Notes are bent and bumped, vibrations fall out like screws rattled from place. Jon Collin is speaking back to the surroundings he rest in. His consciousness made known and aligned with the spiritual strength shared by all. The final field recording is the footsteps of Jon Collin departing this inspiring place.

Garden Portal released From a Petrified Forest in an edition of one hundred just a little over a week ago. There are currently only a few copies remaining. This cassette is part of a batch bundle with the companion tape down to super low copies as well. That is enough numbers. These are purely beautiful sounds. Definitely listen and purchase a copy quickly if that is your intent.

A last note, From a Petrified Forest has just been released and it is almost gone, everything before is gone as well.







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