Label: LAAPS

変名Beingとして活動するRussell Burden、変名The Humble Beeとして活動するCraig Tattersall、このレーベルにゆかりのある二人のアンビエント音楽家が共同で制作した2023年アルバム[Diagenesis]。物音寄りのフィールドレコーディングを多用、静謐なカサコソ音と共に点描的な美麗旋律を落とし続けるサウンドスケープ的作風。エレクトロニクスも適度に取り入れ抑揚のあるレイヤーとして提示。お馴染みCDスリーヴを完全シール留めしたセンスの良いパッケージ。CD版は限定200。





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• Glass mastered CD
• Digisleeve : white cardboard 300 gm
• Outside : x 2 adhesive glossy paper
• Inside : thick paper card + x 2 stickers
• Hand numbered Limited edition to 200 copies, sealed (like old book)
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Diagenesis: The watery interactions, microbial activities, alterations, compactions, and chemical transformations of sediments slowly converting to rock.

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Russell Burden (Being) is a sound and visual artist living on the south coast of the UK. His practice develops work that explores qualities of ambient perception, most often through the lens of hydrological, geological or biological processes. He has delivered gallery exhibits in various mediums including live cymatic feed, and dark space installation. Russell was also a member of The Humble Bee & Players and last year as artist in residence for a site specific project produced a set of drone works on his own imprint, riverwork press.

Craig Tattersall (The Humble Bee) works across music and visual art with an interest in their intersection, and often works collaboratively producing art objects and sound works which have been released on numerous labels. His main focus is with environment(s) and his own interactions within. He has curated a number of micro-labels including cotton goods, mobeer:: | moteer::, our small ideas and now co-curates umbrella publishing.

Russell and Craig have collaborated on several site specific projects over the years (Cotton Goods & Wist), notably sharing a graphic score concept for the production of their Atlantic Cable release. The album Diagenesis represents a change in their working process through which the materiality of field recordings is somewhat privileged over musicality. This work was created through a process of exchange - passing tracks back and forth, each layer of sound buried a little deeper beneath the next.