Label: IIKKI

日本、イタリア、ポーランドにて活動、Home Normalレーベルのキュレーターとしても動き、オープンリールを使うアンビエント作家でもあるIan Hawgood、そして当店にてIIKKI、laaps両レーベルの音源を紹介し続けている人気音楽家The Humble BeeことCraig Tattersall、この2者が2021年に結成した新ユニットObservatoriesの2nd作。前作同様にヒスノイズを強めに用いたザラ付きのあるアンビエントとなっていますが、生音等も導入し終始ダウナーな進行にてミステリアスに纏めたイメージが最高。CDフォーマット限定200部、LPフォーマットはクリアヴァイナルにて限定300部。





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• Cutting lacquer
• 12’’ natural clear vinyl
• Selective UV varnish
• Matt laminated outer sleeve on 300 gm paper, white inner
• Hand numbered / Limited edition to 300 copies
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Observatories is a collaborative music project by Ian Hawgood and Craig Tattersall. This is their second opus together after their first release on IIKKI in March 2021.

Born in the United Kingdom, Ian Hawgood spent most of his adult life living in Japan, Italy and Poland. Currently he calls Peacehaven (on the south coast, near Brighton) his home. Since 2009, he’s well-known with his work as the curator of the Home Normal label. He makes music using an array of reel-to-reel and tape machines in his studio by the sea, where he also master works for many labels and artists alike. You could often catch him on the coast with his faithful Nagra recorder, hydrophone and field microphones. These days his focus of music is on decayed ambient works using old synths and reels mostly, alongside his childhood piano.

Craig Tattersall is a former member of The Remote Viewer and Famous Boyfriend bandmate Andrew Johnson. Tattersall's music can be found these days more often under his alias The Humble Bee; as a founder member of The Boats; and in his collaborative works with the likes of Bill Seaman in The Seaman And The Tattered Sail. He has run the wonderful label Cotton Goods from 2008 to 2015 and since 2009 he has recorded 15 solo albums on his moniker The Humble Bee and almost the same under his name on some collaborations.