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Holding Patterns

by Simon Cullen

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Threshold 04:50
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Hide & Seek 04:22
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Not Anywhere 02:09
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At The Point 05:04
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Sung Open 06:43

about

The making of this album began at a small festival on Inishturk, an Island off the coast of County Mayo in Ireland. I had brought a recording device along with me and took a circumnavigation of the island, along the way recording every gate I encountered; just the sound of them opening and closing again.
I was searching for the short, and often eerie songs that gates sometimes sing as they swing open or shut. On returning to the mainland I catalogued the material and turned to exploring ways with which to approach working with it.

About a year or so later I had settled on a process and once again began listening back to the original field recordings. Over time the short swung songs that had emanated from each gate began to find extended forms.

What came from these sessions is this collection of tunes and sound scapes.
Some are rooted in the melodies heard in the raw recordings. Others were forged out of experiences during that time. Themes of loss and solitude accompanied by echos of the Island and it's
surrounding sea.

Throughout, every sound on every piece originates from a swinging gate recorded on Inishturk in August 2017.

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released April 5, 2020

Made by Simon Cullen
Design by Dave Darcy, at One Strong Arm.

Photograph by Sorca McGrath

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