this album was created at the BatyrLab residence and with the support of the Batyrkhan Shukenov Foundation
This immersive album is an exploration of oceanic experience and sensory perception of the memory of place, created from field recordings of plants in the vicinity of Almaty and recordings of Kazakh folk musical instruments.
The search for identity through witnessing nature and total presence, interpenetration with organic materials, mixing with the smells of steppe herbs and blurring one’s own consciousness with the spirits of the earth, wind and plants.
Instructions for use of the Tumbleweed Dream Guide
Please put your phone in airplane mode
Pause the living and nonliving creatures around you
Make sure your device and headphones are charged, the door is locked, the kids are fed, and the spaceship is parked in a designated area.
Find a comfortable place in which you are ready to spend two hours of time without active activity (a chair, a bath with warm water, a sleeping bag, a cryocapsule, an endless desert field, etc.)
If necessary, complement the experience of your presence with drinks and the desired air temperature.
Establish contact with the Emptiness, enjoy (or qualitatively and deeply experience an existential crisis)
Don't forget to open your eyes after finishing all the tracks. Or don't open it and continue to follow the stream of the unconscious
Tape and guitar loops combine to create mesmerizing atmospherics, like watching the Northern Lights ripple in the sky. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 16, 2022
From the always-excellent label Past Inside the Present comes this stunning work of sustained tone and timbre. Gorgeous. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 1, 2022
The songs on “Avenues and Remembrances” are hushed and delicate, soft, surging songs that can be both tranquil and pensive. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 23, 2018
In the music of Paul Jordan, digitally manipulated field recordings become striking electronic songs that feel eerie and surreal. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2020
This UK group made field recordings in warehouses, parks, and decommissioned power plants, morphing the results into haunting ambient music. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 27, 2020
Side A of a new split with Wayne Robert Thomas is a beautiful drone piece that feels like a time-lapse video of a foggy day. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 14, 2018