John Atkinson - Quattro Terre

Gently push away. Tranquil drone soundscapes at the moment of take off. Like birds lifting themselves from water, peaceful floating interrupted by a flurry of dancing feet and fully used wings. John Atkinson finds time between two provisions, float and flight. On Quattro Terre, field recordings breeze through the construct. Ambient essence and conscious directions momentarily magnified to the place where both intersect. This beautiful composition captures the time it was made, thoughts from surrounding sounds, feelings from the energy of the moment.

Deep on the canvas of Quattro Terre, a sonic contemplation has been composed. An aural reflection painted patiently and evenly, supporting the conscious with tranquil terrain. Voices, birds and surrounding life fill the cracks and crevices of meditative landscape. These field recordings waver and mingle with bursts of electronic flares. A raw beauty hovers above these selections, difficult to describe since we were not actually there. John Atkinson recordings and composition gets listeners as close as possible, leaving some mystery for thoughts to circle with.

Quattro Terre contains four tracks with the final selection titled "Billy's" filling the second side of the cassette. Released by Gertrude Tapes out of Omaha, Nebraska. A very limited cassette run with fifty editions. Copies are currently available from Gertrude Tapes.

As an additional note, John Atkinson & Ned Milligan (both with Gertrude Tape releases and both described on Lost in a Sea of Sound), have a new release together. Gorgeously constructed compact discs with handmade vintage artwork. Titled "Call Me When You Can", this is all ready sold out from the Fluid Audio label, bit still available through both John & Ned's bandcamp pages.
   



Links
John Atkinson - bandcamp - twitter

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