Label: Room40

同Room40より2024年にデジタルアルバムを発表していたプロジェクトの1stフィジカル作!!微細なマイクロトーン・チューニングを施した2台のパンプ・オルガンを軸に、クラリネット、ギターを組み合わせたミニマルな楽曲を展開するAviva Endean & Nick AshwoodのコンビDriftwood。2026年6月に出版した初のフィジカル・タイトル[Maps]を入荷。楽器が持つ際立った特性を全面に押し出し、複数の楽器を同時演奏する事で得られるサウンドスケープ的像が美しく、本作ではコンタクト・マイクを導入しより有機的なテクスチャーで仕上げています。エンボス加工の特殊スリーヴ仕様、インサートが付属。







Matte laminate, embossed and monochrome printed sleeve with insert card.

Following our 2024 self-titled release, Nick and I were compelled to make another record, expanding on the distinctive sound world we have found as the duo Driftwood.

Grounded in the unique instrumentation of two microtonally re-tuned pump organs, alongside clarinets and guitars, the sonic landscape of Driftwood has become a welcoming place for us to inhabit together. The distinctive characteristics of these instruments, as well as the challenge of playing multiple instruments simultaneously, have become a frame we've leaned into more and more, trusting the vitality of their combined resonance to lead us further into uncharted paths of improvisation.

For our second album, we wanted to incorporate additional elements from each of our solo practices into our sound: modular synth, effects pedals, electric guitar and contact mic’s (because playing two instruments at the same time wasn’t enough for us!)

In ‘Maps’, electronics are subtly worked back into the original improvisations, saturating the live instrumentation with bass undertones and signal processing, pushing the sound into more otherworldly realms.

Sometimes the pieces hint toward song-like forms, with repetitive guitar ostinatos lulling the music to the edge of familiarity, while other times the drones and harmonies blur, creating the ground from which glimpses of folk-like melodies surface, as if from a long-forgotten dream.