This is new on the Group Mind label, Richard Norris' home for deep listening and ambient music. Deep Earth Network's Land album is just two long tracks, twenty two minutes each (one on each side of very green vinyl that arrived through the letter boxes of Norris subscribers last week). The cover art is nicely retro- futuristic, a triangle and an eye inside it, reminiscent of a 1960s Penguin paperback.
Land starts off with one of those voices from 1950s BBC radio, a man saying, 'there's nothing to do now but wait for nature to perform its miracle in its own good time'. Bells and chimes drift in. The sound of water running down a rockface. Another voice, birds, some percussion. A drone and whistling. A woman's voice mentioning the landscape. More chirruping. A church bell with a deep drone underneath. Harps and hiss, more water, found sounds, more voices, the drones grow stronger, bagpipes (maybe), musical boxes and chimes, keys, a church organ perhaps. It's a gentle, ambient psychedelic trip, in a place where pastoral and cosmic come together, a cousin of The KLF's Chill Out but out in the wild on its own too.
D.E.N. (Deep Earth Network) is Danny Hammond. You can listen to Land 1 at Bandcamp. Land 2 arrives in early March.
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