Richard Norris' Music For Healing enters its fourth year with the release of two twenty minute pieces of ambient/ deep listening titled Winter Solstice 1 and 2. Winter Solstice inches forwards slowly with found sounds, synth washes, glacially paced rising and falling piano notes and what could be a choir/ could be a synth all coming together to bring some ambient warmth to early January. Halfway in a baritone instrument/ tone picks out a topline melody and then fades in and out of the haze. Some birdsong drifts in. Time passes. The choral sounds return. The synths become slightly more insistent and to the foreground. Winter Solstice can be bought here.
Next month Richard releases a twenty track compilation bringing together highlights from his recent electronic and ambient work, dating back to 2019, a collection called Deep Listening 2019- 2022. Much of the impetus for these recordings came from lockdown in March 2020 but they started before that, Richard using the creation of ambient and deep listening pieces to deal with the stress of the world outside his front door.
Nice one, Adam. I think we all need coping mechanisms to deal with the stresses of the world outside our respective front doors.
ReplyDeleteI wish you and yours all the best for the coming year. Would love to have a coffee with you sometime; I'm often in the Manchester area if you ever fancied meeting up*.
* However, I would totally understand if you wanted to remain anonymous.
That'd be good John, let me know when you're up and we'll sort something out.
ReplyDeleteMr Norris continues the longest ever purple patch....
ReplyDeleteRichard Norris can do no wrong in my opinion.
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