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Label: Balmat
Catno: BALMAT07
Formats: 1x Vinyl LP Stereo
Country: Spain
Release Date: Sep 13, 2023
Styles: Experimental Ambient
Minor Science aka UK-born, Berlin-based musician Angus Finlayson pushes forward his vision of ambient music as neither static vista or merely mood-setting atmosphere, but rather a dynamic matrix of textures, sensations, and even rhythms. He makes his Balmat debut with Absent Friends Vol. III, the third installment in a shape-shifting series across a variety of formats and platforms. The first two Absent Friends--a 2014 set for Blowing Up the Workshop, and a 2017 cassette and web player for Whities (now AD93)--were hybrid affairs, part DJ mix and part collage, mostly featuring music made by other people. Then, in 2020-21, Finlayson developed the project into a live show of his own material. Armed with hundreds of bespoke stems created in his studio--idiosyncratic FX chains, feedback loops through cheap rack gear, heavily post-processed field recordings, found voices, etc.--he would improvise on four CDJs, mixer, FX, and live synths, extending techniques he learned as a club DJ into a live context, accompanied by visuals by Stockholm-based artist Paul Witherden. Absent Friends Vol. III is an album of studio versions of the music developed for the live show.
A1 - Introduction
1:14
A2 - Dread The Evening
5:52
A3 - Sun Turn
4:04
A4 - The Dinas Walk
4:40
A5 - Summer Diary
4:12
B1 - Life Texture
5:26
B2 - Contingency
7:39
B3 - Gather Your Party (Dispersed Mix)
5:44