Label: sound in silence

Room40のLawrence Englishがマスタリングを手掛けた高内容物件！！ここSound In Silenceからは既に3枚のアルバムを発表している、南オーストラリアにて20年以上音楽活動を行ってきたベテラン・サウンドアーティストPanoptique Electrical。インターネットを利用したインタラクティブアート、実験フィルムの制作等、音楽以外の分野でも培った感覚全てを注ぎ込んだ過去20年間を総括する全70分の集大成的アルバム[Decades (2001​-​2021)]。加工ピアノを用いた硬質なエレクトロアコースティック、シネマティックなチェロ演奏のカットアップ、ザラついたサウンドスケープ等々、大胆な手法やネタをふんだんに用いた異色のアンビエント集成。全31トラックという小曲編成も素晴らしい。アートワークをポラロイドスタイルの写真で貼り付けたリサイクル封筒パッケージ。インサートやDLコードが付属。







Sound In Silence is proud to welcome back Panoptique Electrical, presenting his new album Decades (2001-2021), an era-spanning compilation of ambient works, experimental scores and soundtracks.

This is his fourth album on the label after the highly acclaimed Disappearing Music For Face in 2016, Quiet Ecology in 2017 and Five Pianos in 2020.

For over twenty years Jason Sweeney, based on Kaurna Country in South Australia, has been composing and recording either solo, in various electronic bands (Other People’s Children, Pretty Boy Crossover) and under the composer alias of Panoptique Electrical. He has also been directing and creating interactive works for the internet, making experimental films, curating projects for galleries and theatre spaces and has collaborated with and composed for some of Australia’s leading performing arts companies, artists and organisations.

Decades (2001-2021), Panoptique Electrical’s eighth full-length album, spans 20 years of compositions over 70 minutes and 31 tracks. Starting in 2001, with pieces made from lo-fi synth drones, sampled loops and broken pianos, taking us through to more recent works featuring layered atmospheric strings, processed piano, field recordings, cinematic cello performed by frequent collaborator Zoë Barry and cut-up vocal pieces performed by Caroline Daish, Decades (2001-2021) perfectly blends melancholic ambient music, modern classical composition, experimental electronics and evocative soundscapes.
Exquisitely mastered by Room40’s Lawrence English, Decades (2001-2021) is an epic, but personal, record that takes us into the emotional landscape of Sweeney’s compositional world.

This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 250 gsm smoky grey recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and three insert sheets containing tracklist and information, two printed on a 170 gsm dusty pink cardboard and one on a 120 gsm cream recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.