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Space Fields: Ambient Guitar Series Vol 3

by TA Walker

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1.
Morning Over The Fourth System 19:28
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2.
Astronaut Gardener 18:22
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3.
Approach And Perihelion Of Comet 1P/1982 Q1 18:09
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4.
Io 18:45
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This album is a conscious effort on my part, to make some “ambient ‘space guitar’” recordings, inspired particularly by the early-1970s “kozmische Muzik” of artists such as Tangerine Dream (especially their early LPs “Alpha Centauri” and “Zeit”) and Klaus Schulze (mainly “Irrlicht”, but also “Cyborg”). If this were on vinyl, it would definitely be a double-LP: the first such work I have ever recorded.

Please be clear from the outset: whilst there is progression and evolution in these pieces, by the nature of the “ambient” genre, they are expansive, drifting and not especially “active”. Frankly: if you are seeking three-minute songs and pyrotechnic guitar solos, this may not be the album for you… if you’re familiar with “Zeit” by Tangerine Dream, or Brian Eno’s longer-form works like “Music For Installations”, that’s basically the nature of what awaits you here.

You may be interested to learn that (a) these four pieces were improvised and recorded in one pass and in real time, with no subsequent overdubs and only minor sonic "rebalancing"; and (b) every single sound you hear in these 75 minutes or so, began as an electric guitar: there is not a note of “conventional” synthesiser anywhere here. Yes, the guitar signal gets warped, processed, deconstructed and remodelled to considerable lengths, but everything ultimately comes from a vibrating metal string. Believe it or not, this is a “guitar album”, if mainly in the literal (and possibly technical) sense.

I would like to make special mention of one inspiration for this album’s title: the iPad application “SpaceFields” by developer Igor Vasiliev, which provides much of the sound-warping and deconstructive effects that provide the “backbone” of the pieces on this collection. Many thanks Igor :-)

Have a good voyage…

Tim Walker - Earth, June 2023

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released June 30, 2023

T.A. Walker: electric guitar & live electronics

Tim’s gear (thanks for the compliment :-) ):
2018 D’Angelico Deluxe Bedford, EBow, OMEC Teleport, TC Sub’n’Up Mini, EHX Tri Parallel Mixer, EHX Superego, BOSS SY-1 Synthesizer, ZOOM G1 Four, VOX Mystic Edge, TC FlashBack 2 x4, TC Hall Of Fame 2
Apple iPad Pro, running:
AUM, SpaceFields, PD Space Guitar Synthesizer, Attack Softener,
Eventide QVox, Koshiba, Eventide BlackHole, FAC Alteza, Eventide Ultratap, BLEASS Delay, Eventide ShimmerVerb, Cascades, Rymdigare, Eventide Rotary, Eventide Tricerachorus, BLEASS Granulizer, Velvet Machine, Brusfri

Recorded by Tim at Sidingsound I and on the Sidingsound Mobile,
May-June 2023, and given a bit of sonic polish by him around the same time
Cover art: Wonder.ai
Cover layout: Tim & Canva

Special thanks to: Joy for lots of love and space (in both senses!);
Naomi for track title inspiration, and for giving the “parameters” which I used to create “Io”; and you, for giving these sounds space between your ears :-)

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Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, often with "electronica", "lo-fi" and "prog" inclinations.

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