Name: A Haunting Strip Of Marshland: 'Ness' Original Sountrack
Brand: Drew Mulholland

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CIS043

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-08-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Revol­ver

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Drew Mulholland 

Genre US

Soundtracks

Label US

Castles In Spain

Soundtracks | Vinyl LPs, CDs, Merch | Rough Trade

From The Liner Notes by Rob MacFarlane: "Drew Mulholland knows how to listen to a place. How to lay ears to a landscape and catch the voices and utterances that surface into the skull. But fidelity is not his aim here ––and nor should it be with such a deceiving, treacherous site as The Ness. The tracks you hear are––in their distortions and manipulations––truer to The Ness’s unsettlements and resonances than any others I know. They hover somewhere between field-recording and haunting. Acoustic elements have been worked over until they are scarcely recognisable, surviving scantly as hyper-mutated catalysts. Mulholland even used the place itself as the distortive force; he gathered lichen species found on The Ness, ground them nearly into dust, glued the resulting powder onto a length of cassette tape, played and recorded the lichened tape, then stretched the recording to ten times its original length—before splicing it and adding reverb and echo. The resulting tracks are fabulously unfaithful to their origins on the untrue island.

They bleep, shiver, rattle, quiver, shudder, detonate. There are footsteps, drips, the clatters of doors and minds being closed, as well as the warping cries of the Mellotron. Interference of several kinds crackles throughout. <br>Throughout, this remarkable soundscape echoes in its unsettling patterns the ‘environmental testing’ of nuclear weapons (stress testing, vibration testing, temperature testing that occurred on The Ness under the veil of the Official Secrets Act:

For Ness is a place to improvise. Ness is its own realm with its own rules. Don’t look. Don’t tell. Don’t understand. Don’t ever remember.”

A Haunting Strip Of Marshland: 'Ness' Original Sountrack

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