Kate Carr - Midsummer, London (2024) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Kate Carr
- Title: Midsummer, London
- Year Of Release: 2024
- Label: Persistence of Sound
- Genre: ambient, drone, experimental, field recording
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 00:45:18
- Total Size: 252 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Alchemical field recording collagist Kate Carr immerses in the humid soup of London on the longest day of 2023 with an impressionistic travelogue of her city-strafing trip from Loughborough Junction to Slade Green.
One of the best in her field (recording class), Carr’s works always appear to parse curious uncanniness from the quotidian. ‘Midsummer, London’ does just that with Carr’s evocation of London’s vastness and inherent nuance, and on an auspicious day observed by humans across the eons. The city’s rich socio-cultural mosaic and palimpsest of history proves perfectly fertile ground for investigating and articulating her interests in the relationship between people and place through sound.
As someone who moved to the city in 2016 from roots in Sydney, AU, she brings an observant outsider/insider quality to her seamless 46’ collage that we, as outsiders to the megatropolis, who scarcely visit it, can relate to. In a sort of poetically instrumental, deep topographic way, Carr’s work here holds among her evocative best, subtly conveying the city’s unique sort of humidity and barometric pressure with a layered, soupy, miasmic frisson of tones that palpably capture the dynamism of sounds convected in warm air, vacillating passages of street noise with tracts relatively absent of human interference, other than her own.
Far better than any literal, guided tour, to our minds, ‘Midsummer, London’ imparts the sensation of drifting invisibly, ears snagged on overheard conversations or singers oblivious to one’s presence, hopping on/off the city’s snakes ’n ladders of transport networks, intoxicated by the weather and smells, and slipping from street noises to pockets of natural tranquility and mindlessly playing street railings like a carillon. Quite the lush experience, if you ask we.
Tracklist:
1 01. Kate Carr - Sunrise on the 35 bus to Clapham Junction (02:43)
1 02. Kate Carr - Amid waterbirds and joggers, Staines-upon-Thames (03:17)
1 03. Kate Carr - Roadworks in Shepperton (02:51)
1 04. Kate Carr - One piece of cake (a banana cake), and remembered excavations (01:44)
1 05. Kate Carr - I met a dog in Hampton who lived on a boat near a gravel recycling plant (03:06)
1 06. Kate Carr - The bins being emptied somewhere near Twickenham (02:00)
1 07. Kate Carr - Transit interlude (vibrations obscuring conversations) (02:02)
1 08. Kate Carr - A strangely located cafe, echoes of St Paul's and a drain that drew breath as I journeyed into Blackfriars (01:23)
1 09. Kate Carr - Lunchtime for the office crowd, I like the sound of swan rescue (02:27)
1 10. Kate Carr - Crossing the river: I am getting hungry and lots of people are talking about food. Also Jesus loves me (03:10)
1 11. Kate Carr - Transit interlude (the Lewisham station piano) (02:02)
1 12. Kate Carr - A rather wistful stop for noodles (and why is someone singing in this food court anyway?) (03:20)
1 13. Kate Carr - Trickling thoughts (03:05)
1 14. Kate Carr - Walking down to the Thames at Woolwich I banged some guard rails; thought about a recording of another station piano (05:47)
1 15. Kate Carr - Trying to find the river at Slade Green; Did that train go to Dartford? (04:38)
1 16. Kate Carr - It has been the longest of days and I am going home (01:39)
One of the best in her field (recording class), Carr’s works always appear to parse curious uncanniness from the quotidian. ‘Midsummer, London’ does just that with Carr’s evocation of London’s vastness and inherent nuance, and on an auspicious day observed by humans across the eons. The city’s rich socio-cultural mosaic and palimpsest of history proves perfectly fertile ground for investigating and articulating her interests in the relationship between people and place through sound.
As someone who moved to the city in 2016 from roots in Sydney, AU, she brings an observant outsider/insider quality to her seamless 46’ collage that we, as outsiders to the megatropolis, who scarcely visit it, can relate to. In a sort of poetically instrumental, deep topographic way, Carr’s work here holds among her evocative best, subtly conveying the city’s unique sort of humidity and barometric pressure with a layered, soupy, miasmic frisson of tones that palpably capture the dynamism of sounds convected in warm air, vacillating passages of street noise with tracts relatively absent of human interference, other than her own.
Far better than any literal, guided tour, to our minds, ‘Midsummer, London’ imparts the sensation of drifting invisibly, ears snagged on overheard conversations or singers oblivious to one’s presence, hopping on/off the city’s snakes ’n ladders of transport networks, intoxicated by the weather and smells, and slipping from street noises to pockets of natural tranquility and mindlessly playing street railings like a carillon. Quite the lush experience, if you ask we.
Tracklist:
1 01. Kate Carr - Sunrise on the 35 bus to Clapham Junction (02:43)
1 02. Kate Carr - Amid waterbirds and joggers, Staines-upon-Thames (03:17)
1 03. Kate Carr - Roadworks in Shepperton (02:51)
1 04. Kate Carr - One piece of cake (a banana cake), and remembered excavations (01:44)
1 05. Kate Carr - I met a dog in Hampton who lived on a boat near a gravel recycling plant (03:06)
1 06. Kate Carr - The bins being emptied somewhere near Twickenham (02:00)
1 07. Kate Carr - Transit interlude (vibrations obscuring conversations) (02:02)
1 08. Kate Carr - A strangely located cafe, echoes of St Paul's and a drain that drew breath as I journeyed into Blackfriars (01:23)
1 09. Kate Carr - Lunchtime for the office crowd, I like the sound of swan rescue (02:27)
1 10. Kate Carr - Crossing the river: I am getting hungry and lots of people are talking about food. Also Jesus loves me (03:10)
1 11. Kate Carr - Transit interlude (the Lewisham station piano) (02:02)
1 12. Kate Carr - A rather wistful stop for noodles (and why is someone singing in this food court anyway?) (03:20)
1 13. Kate Carr - Trickling thoughts (03:05)
1 14. Kate Carr - Walking down to the Thames at Woolwich I banged some guard rails; thought about a recording of another station piano (05:47)
1 15. Kate Carr - Trying to find the river at Slade Green; Did that train go to Dartford? (04:38)
1 16. Kate Carr - It has been the longest of days and I am going home (01:39)
Year 2024 | Electronic | Ambient | FLAC / APE
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