Label: Boring Machines

同レーベルから出ていたヴァイナル作[Pondfire]、またColin Potterのリミックス盤を紹介したノースカロライナのPaul Beauchamp。今回は霧が立ち込める地元の早朝風景をシンプルな音で表現したというミニマルミュージック集。フォークな楽曲も一部含まれていますが、殆どが弓弾きによるドラッギーな持続音パターン。このレーベルという事でサイケデリックな要素も結構強い。







Two years after the release of the critically acclaimed, Pondfire, Paul Beauchamp returns with his second solo album, Grey Mornings. Once again tapping into geographical influence for inspiration, the nine tracks of ambient drones reflect the feelings and emotions experienced during the early hours of grey, foggy mornings in both the Piedmont region of Beauchamp’s birthplace in North Carolina and the Piemonte region of Northern Italy where he now resides. Beauchamp continues his research into experimental ambient but at the same time has deviated into new territory moving away from the minimalism of Pondfire through the use of various acoustic and electric instruments, field recordings and incorporating the studio as a creative device in and of itself together with the engineering aid of Julia Kent during the recording process.