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Europe

by Pearce/Bryant

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Spätkauf 08:25
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Lovsonna 06:08
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Agias Zonis 04:50
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Sigló 07:39
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Tor! 08:33
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In Pearce/Bryant's 'Europe', the ambient sounds collected during the composer's years of travel are used as both the inspiration and the building blocks of the music. Ranging from dance floor-fillers to experimental pieces, the background ambience of those experiences is never far away, knitting the various musical styles together.

The journey starts with 'Spätkauf', a homage to the late night convenience stores of Berlin, it takes an ostalgie-tinted U-bahn around the city by night, with a brief detour into prog-rock territory, before arriving back at Hohneker's glittering palace by dawn. The tune is a longer, lazier sibling of the track 'Späti', which appeared on the prelude e.p. 'Lovsonna' attempts to bridge the gap between the ancient Roman settlement by Lac Leman and it's modern succesor city of Lausanne. 'Stop Announcements' presents a physical collage of of public transport experiences from across a continent, whilst 'Oopperajuhlat' attempts to fuse the wonder of seeing Carmen at the famous Savonlinna Opera Festival with the dark spaces of a Finnish forest on a summer's night. 'Agios Zonis' roams the streets of Athens on a spring evening, sidestepping fallen bitter oranges, stray cats and buzzing mopeds. 'Porte de Charenton' rattles through some of Paris' lesser known Metro stations, before arriving urgent and breathess at Bastille. 'Sigló' powers around Iceland's troll peninsula, streaking through empty tunnels under mountains and across silent fjörds in driving wind and rain. 'Téléphérique' ascends Mt. Saleve before sitting in a quiet, flowered meadow to enjoy the views over Genève below and the Alps in the distance. 'Tor!' celebrates a football tourist's first experience of a Bundesliga game, with cold beer and goals flowing aplenty. Finally, 'The Last Bell' lemants the slow, creeping death of religion across the continent, accompanied by church bells from Reykjavik to Stuttgart, and a defiant psalm.

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released October 16, 2020

recorded at The Workshop, Edinburgh between April and August 2020.

All tracks written by Pearce/Bryant

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Ambient, electronic/dancey times

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