out of the ash (HT101), by Heavy Cloud

out of the ash (HT101)

by Heavy Cloud

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Reclaimed c90 tapes cut and spliced to length, dubbed in real time. Jcards cut and collaged from a children's books and craft paper. Each cassette has unique album art. Only 24 copies available!

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1.	nothing could interest me anymore then I saw your smile 03:13	buy track
2.	fewer omissions than truths 02:00	buy track
3.	if I sit still how everything stops 02:02	buy track
4.	how strange a season 02:29	buy track
5.	between flames 02:03	buy track
6.	a golden lotus grows 02:00	buy track
7.	like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full 02:27	buy track
8.	the radio remains restless 01:42	buy track
9.	as the light lies 04:06	buy track
10.	out of the ash 04:36	buy track
11.	the window is starless still 02:46	buy track
12.	and I followed 04:32	buy track
13.	epitaph for fire and flower 02:29	buy track

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out of the ash was inspired by creation from out of adversity. Building something new from parts old, broken or abandoned. As a thematic bricolage, the sounds that emerge from these collage soundscapes seek to be reborn and revitalised as something new. Every sonic element – no matter how small, like a snowflake or a spiralling flake of ash – is a building block in a soundtrack that celebrates ‘going again’.
Contemplating a combination of personal, societal, environmental and creative concerns, out of the ash became a mosaic of new and remodelled existing sounds forged from such sources as soft synths and tabletop electric guitar. This foundation is layered with various field recordings, found sounds, samples from TV and cinema, text to speech adaptations of poetry, literature and life, as well as snippets of radio.
As a story of two acts, the first half is more of a jumble of doubts, a flock of thoughts searching for summer in a world where seasons are now so strange. The second half grows slightly less disparate, as if joints in the sculpture are beginning to set and seal. And with this, a certain stoic hope starts to grow out between mended cracks – an aural kintsugi – pointing towards a truth that light will overcome dark, if you wish it enough.
out of the ash is a thematic sister to Memoria (Histamine Tapes 074) and shares its values with reworking the decayed and the distorted into new forms

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released April 26, 2024

Created with: tapes, soft synths, prepared samples, found sounds, field recordings, tabletop electric guitar, domestic objects, amplifier, radio
Music by Heavy Cloud. Photograph supplied by family.

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Histamine Tapes East Montpelier, Vermont

Lofi Experimental Cassette label focusing on reuse.
Breathing new life into unwanted ephemera

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