London Doesn't Need You

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1.	Fade In / Out 00:46	buy track
2.	London - December 1 03:14	buy track
3.	Shakey Jakey 02:56	buy track
4.	Creepy Pasta 02:36	buy track
5.	Sluice Them All Off 02:14	buy track
6.	London - December 2 [epilogue] 03:26	buy track
7.	Double Formant Shift 03:01	buy track

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During the making of this album, I found myself living in London in less than ideal circumstances. I didn't have access to a rehearsal space, musical instruments or any studio equipment.

Therefore I had to work with what I had, which was my laptop, a pair of headphones and my trusty Roland R-05 handheld field recorder.

Using this limited array of equipment, I began to collect samples from my environment during long walks in the city centre, before layering them together to form audio collages. I then edited carefully: highlighting the moments that fortuitously worked, and removed the bits that clashed with one another. Then I rinsed the whole feed through heavy amounts of delay: this work represents the summation of my delay and reverb experiments over the preceding years. With the source material lacking an overt musical coda, I had to find musicality in the design of the delay patterns... having delayed signals change in pitch and collide against one another to create new sounds, or automating the settings of reverb units to change and modulate as the piece played.

In the end, the post-production attempted to make the sound move, pulse and breathe - perhaps because so much of the music was confined solely to the interior of my laptop.

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Everything by Andrew Gardiner ≈ unimbued.com

Recorded at Colerabbey Studios in Richmond & East Sheen, London, England

Tracked between Winter 2013 - Summer 2014

Cover image by Shyrooken instagram.com/shyrooken

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'Fade In / Out' - Written by Noel Gallagher, from the album Be Here Now by Oasis

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The full sleeve notes for this album are available on my production blog:

unimbued.blogspot.com/2020/08/london-doesnt-need-you-full-sleeve-notes.html

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released September 1, 2014

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