Shearwater Drift, by Genre Defying

Shearwater Drift

by Genre Defying

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1.	Mirror of light 04:14	buy track
2.	Plumed waves 01:56	buy track
3.	Shearwater drift 04:34	buy track
4.	Haunted by lotus pollen 02:08	buy track
5.	Tsitern 04:46	buy track
6.	Kōwenewene 02:57	buy track
7.	Petipeti 03:27	buy track
8.	Whale fall 02:26	buy track
9.	Collapse of sleep 02:07	buy track
10.	Pīwakawaka flame tip 01:09	buy track
11.	For Phyllis 04:40	buy track
12.	Irukandji 01:45	buy track
13.	Cherry blossom pool 03:44	buy track
14.	Hollow wax snails 01:46	buy track
15.	Honeycombed bee orchid 02:19	buy track
16.	Ferrous Aro 03:24	buy track
17.	Cloud shadow 04:39	buy track
18.	Haere 05:06	buy track

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Seemingly familiar but tantalisingly mysterious, these beautifully composed sonic landscapes offer a unique experience of the world through sound - the known and the unknown.

Shearwater Drift is a vast sonic collage that explores real and imagined landscapes. The compositions are created from pieces of sonic architecture utilising elements from the man made environment, the land, ocean, and sky, and those strange places in between where sound is a hybrid. Many of the sounds are unique to New Zealand, in fact some are unique to Wellington, while others are from Scotland.

There is a cyclical aspect to this piece, which begins and ends with birdsong from the two hemispheres of our globe. Our aim was to create an album that takes place in a slowly evolving, ethereal world, with pieces that express, reflect, and explore non-linear time and memory as sound. Ancient and ultra-modern sounds are woven together by the luminous sonic threads of Al Fraser's nga¯ taonga pu¯oro playing, the elegant, ornate soundscapes of Neil Johnstone and the deft sound design of Steve Burridge to create a beautiful and, we hope, transcendent aural experience.

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released May 26, 2018

Neil Johnstone (recording, manipulation, composition)
Al Fraser (ngā taonga pūoro)
Steve Burridge (engineering)
Ross Harris (accordion sounds on Tsitern)
Nick Pilcher (piano on Ferrous Aro)
Robert Baldock (treated sea samples on Cloud Shadow)

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