a gift for the Ephemerist, by Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker

a gift for the Ephemerist

by Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker

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Pro-dubbed cassette with on-body printing on a clear shell. Full-colour double-sided J-card. All copies come shrink-wrapped. The deluxe edition also includes hand-made packaging by Andrew Heath, two numbered mini-prints, and an exclusive bonus track by the duo. Limited to 30.

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RTR Autumn Batch 2019
This batch released includes DR - 'Melancholie' (RTR019), andarctica - 'buried with the bells' (RTR020), and Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - 'a gift for the Ephemerist' (standard edition) (RTR021). All tapes pro-dubbed with full-colour double-sided J-cards (except DR's tape, which has a three panel fold-out J-card). Download codes for outstanding releases will be sent directly via E-mail as soon as possible.

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Limited Edition Cassette
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Pro-dubbed cassette with on-body printing on a clear shell. Full-colour double-sided J-card. All copies come shrink-wrapped. Limited to 45 copies.

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1.	This Frosted Air 16:50	buy track
2.	Found Piano (a gift for the ephemerist) 10:47	buy track
3.	Ontrafel 08:40	buy track
4.	Waddenzee 18:12	buy track

about

A gift for the Ephemerist is the second release from the ongoing collaboration between Dutch, ambient guitarist Anne Chris Bakker and British, minimal pianist and sound-recordist Andrew Heath. These four pieces chart a slow moving, lower case journey inspired by place and process. Combining tonal washes and textural recordings punctuated by pointillist piano and guitar notes to produce music that creates an ephemeral, dreamlike stasis.

They finally met when Andrew invited Chris to play in the UK’s Resound festival. This cemented a friendship and mutual admiration of each other’s music. Andrew then visited Chris in the north of the Netherlands for a week of inspired improvisation - spending their time gathering field recordings, composing and of course, cycling.

There followed an intense period of improvisation and experimentation, deep in the cold winter days of the northern Netherlands, and using elements as diverse as pianos on railway platforms and old reel to reel tape machines, Chris and Andrew worked with many hours of material to finally distil ‘A gift for the Ephemerist’.

Inspired by the landscape around them and by their temporary studio in a centuries old mill beside a frozen canal, their signature sound evolved into these four pieces. Pause and contemplate, for here, suspended in time and place, are modulating drones, fragile notes, texture and immersive driftscapes which shimmer and pulse with half-glimpsed melodies that seem to hang in the air. Overwhelmingly informed both by an open, minimal landscape and a love of process, allowing lower case sounds to form as you would unfold a map - each section revealing a new and uncharted vista

Huge thanks to Renske for studio space, bicycles
and just being there.

Thanks also to James at Rusted Tone Recordings for his enthusiasm and belief in this work.

credits

released October 6, 2019

Andrew Heath - Piano, electronics, field recordings
Anne Chris Bakker - Guitar, electronics, tape manipulation, field recordings

Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Artwork by Andrew Heath

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Rusted Tone Recordings is an independent tape label specialising in ambient, drone, and experimental music.

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