hymnal, by Simon Aulman

hymnal

by Simon Aulman

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2xCDR album - hand-painted hand-printed hand-written outer cover and inners and CD labels and track-listing. Disc One is the 31-track album. Disc Two is three extended/remixed/changed ambient versions of album tracks, not available via any download etc. Limited edition of 8 copies.

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1.	westmoor hurdley 02:55	buy track
2.	lawless coppice 02:33	buy track
3.	batcombe down 01:59	buy track
4.	higher sweethills 02:28	buy track
5.	pimperne 02:13	buy track
6.	great high wood 02:34	buy track
7.	burl moor 01:17	buy track
8.	ocean hill 02:09	buy track
9.	scite coppice 01:46	buy track
10.	axe ford 01:13	buy track
11.	round knoll 01:20	buy track
12.	groveley road 02:18	buy track
13.	sunnyside farm 01:52	buy track
14.	swyre bottom 01:30	buy track
15.	pen well hill 01:04	buy track
16.	hinknowle hill 02:45	buy track
17.	sturthill copse 01:56	buy track
18.	eggardon hill 01:59	buy track
19.	wynford wood 02:21	buy track
20.	toller fratrum 01:43	buy track
21.	luccas farm 00:59	buy track
22.	hungry hill 01:06	buy track
23.	hogleaze farm 01:37	buy track
24.	notton hill barn 02:18	buy track
25.	frome vauchurch 01:45	buy track
26.	magiston hill 01:11	buy track
27.	calfhay farm 02:13	buy track
28.	stratton down 02:43	buy track
29.	reynards copse 00:57	buy track
30.	tilly whim coppice 00:48	buy track
31.	large bar hill 01:45	buy track

about

The third/final album in my series of quick quiet lofi keyboard works in memory of the countryside here in the south in January - a time which will never be forgotten by those of us astray enough to go out in the mud and the rain in the lockdown peace.

All music created on my battery-powered keyboard and then tweaked or left alone in Audacity here in Southampton in the final days of January 2021.

All distortions and glitches and incomprehensible volume disparities and annoying hyper-bassy rumblings are entirely intentional.

PLAY QUIET !!!!!!!!!!!

(photograph by me, near Lockerley, January 2021)

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MY OPINION OF THIS ALBUM -

Out of Hymen, Hymn and this one, this one came hardest. Hardly surprising - Hymen was basically a compilation album, Hymn was made in about 2 very lucky days where everything went right, no idea how. This album is a bit of a mess - and yes I'm biased, but I think it's a beautiful mess.

It's my Strangeways Here We Come - some sloppiness and what feels like filler, except I really can't tell any more which tracks are the weakest, and the result is my own favourite album of the three. I don't like those two gloopy reverb-heavy piano tracks near the end, but when I removed them I realised that they added a necessary otherworldly slowed-down feel to the album.

It sometimes feels like there's too many ambient tracks and I wished there were more tinkly keyboards instead. But when I added more tinkly keyboards I realised the album was sounding too bitty and needed more ambient tracks to help retain the slow background-y feel that I wanted.

In a thousand years, when The Wire has discovered me and I am famous, the world consensus will be that this is the weakest of my three Rural-Naive electronics albums. And I do understand why. But why should I care? - I'll be dead - and now, for me, there are more beautiful tracks on this stroppy scrappy difficult eccentric album than on the other two put together.