the link to the Low Point website should be;

www.low-point.com/LP026.html

All the best

Gareth, Low Point

don't snooze getting a copy of this

This is a lovely record.

I'll have a few copies of the ''Near and Faraway'' disc tonight at the Hoey if you've got spending money.

I'm pretty much out of copies now. If you're interested, better grab one while you can.

norman records

There's a good review of this over at Dusted.

thanks for that link shaun.

silent ballet

you got any left?

A couple of extra reviews and such....

''As opposed to Australians Seaworthy, who have produced fine work in their own right for the 12k label, it seems I am only familiar with electronic musician Fabio Orsi from his collaborations – previously with Valerio Cosi and Gianlucca Becuzzi. Which would have been why it wasn’t until I heard the third of the three circa seventeen minute pieces, “Branch and Stone“, that I could get a handle on what was going on: this one was pure Seaworthy, with long, slow, echoing, seemingly improvised clouds of flaked guitar hanging in the air like morning fog. The gorgeous, lush drone suspension of opening piece “Evening by Evening” was the one which was all Orsi, with the denser textures of “Near and Faraway” being the joint effort. That collaboration is the standout, with its blocks of guitar shifting glacially over an increasingly rough terrain, before melting out to mere birdsong. Most satisfying.'' Mapsadasical

''9 out of 10. A split album as split albums should be - a collaboration of thoughts and emotions bound together in a river of notes and sounds. Split is quite clearly the wrong word as Near and Faraway is about bridging the gap of time and space (something that we have never lived in a better era to do). Ambience as ambient should be; soft, gentle, swaying, pierced by breathing peaks and sighs. Evening by Evening comes from Fabio Orsi (the northern hemispheres representative) and is a forlornly uplifting mesh of guitars, keyboards and samples that blend and weave together forming a dense yet therapeutic sound that blows into your ear like the fresh salty sea air on a glitteringly golden day. Precious and permissive. The title track is perfectly sandwiched between each acts 'solo' (so to speak) effort and is an amalgamation of rushing guitars and soaring drones - an instrumental Jesu sans beats. This does not so much attack the senses as glide along them, flirtatiously flicking its hair and beckoning with the slow motion curling of a glistening finger. Birds chirruping at the ten minute mark announce the arrival of Explosions in the Sky type reverb drenched guitar work that threatens to spill its murky waters on this glacier like canvas. Embracing an aesthetic that is as much about patience as it is the journey; each modulation becomes a pair of ankle-wings lifting you at every step. They have successfully created music to fill the gulf between their respective nations and in doing so a sound as enveloping as Sunn0))) has been born, in fact you could argue this is the Yang to Sunn0)))'s Yin, which of course suggests that they both contain small elements of each other (Alice per example). Branch and Stone - the third track on this album is certainly a darker affair as heavy feedback oscillates, playing around at the lower ends of the scale, occasionally heading to brown note territory but never without due care and always leaning to invite the listener on. Thoughtful and tribadistic.'' dieshellsuit

Copies still available from me ga. pm.

Tribadistic? What? That came out of left field.

Near & Faraway is a beautiful realized, haunting, often lushly harmonic & warming collaboration between two of today’s most consistently rewarding ambient artists & sonic mood setters. Involved we have Australian electro/ acoustic project Seaworthy with often their often guitar linked ambience & Italy’s Fabio Orsi who also users guitar elements as well old synths & field recordings to create his rich ambient canvas.

The album in all feature three 15 to 20 minute tracks with each party offer up their own stand alone track & then they collaborate on the 3rd track. First up we have the Fabio Orsi track entitled “Evening by Evening” which finds Orsi slowly & lushly unfolding this warming & growing ambient like glow from rich looped guitar tones, synth like string under glow & brightening sonic beauty. Instead of feeling like the evening as the title suggest to me it feels more like 4 or 5 am on a spring mourning, as the sun is slowly lighten the sky as the natural comes to life through the misty & due hinted haze. Midway through the track the guitar element drifts out & we’re left with the lush ambient warmth of the synth tones as Orsi carefully adds in subtle field recording elements & graceful electronic floats & bobs; really the track seems to warm you to the pit of your soul & is my favourite of the impressive three tracks on offer here.

Next up we have the collaborative title track which starts off with distant muffled nature recording of birds & woodland field recordings from which this lush circling harmonic glow of ambience drifts & ebbs, it feels almost string like & ethereal in it’s feel; but seems to be electronic or synth based in origin. As the track progresses the ambient ebb & flow glows stronger & more filling, through it’s not quite as warming & paradise like as the first track; yes it’s still warming but it has a slight mysterious & melancholy undercurrent running through its sonic marrow. At about the 6 minute 30 mark a clean & lulling guitar tone appears from out of the main drone and for the remainder of the track the drone & guitar element drift in & out of sonic focus & mingle with each other along with subtle bird and nature sounds.

Lastly we have the Seaworthy track “Branch And Stone” which continues with the darker more mysterious & melancholy undercurrent elements of the title track & finds Seaworthy unfolding this shimmering & subtle building ambient structure from guitar drones, harmonic feedback pattern & slow hypnotic/ earthy guitar picks & twangs. Again it’s still quite lush, golden & warming in it’s feel like the rest of the album; through there’s is a certainly nip in the sonic air giving one the feeling you get on a late August or early September morning when Autumn is on it’s way.

Truly Near & Faraway is a beautiful, rich & often harmonic example of how to weave perfect, compelling & timeless ambience. A very rewarding vaguely seasonally changing slice of ambience & rich golden drone work- very fitting for long ramberling walks in the countryside away from mankind & almost at one with nature.

4/5 Musique Machine

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