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Drifting and Phasing - an ambient introduction to Kowalski Room

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1.	Ripeness Made 07:11	info	buy track
2.	Autumn Bells 09:09	info	buy track
3.	Voices of the Future 08:21	info	buy track
4.	Was It You? 09:13	info	buy track
5.	The Song of the Piano in the Night 07:28	info	buy track
6.	It's Used for Something 02:00	info	buy track
7.	Mostly Ambient Intro 05:15	info	buy track
8.	The Longest of Nights 08:20	info	buy track
9.	The Heartbeat of Life 08:02	info	buy track
10.	Strings of Angels 08:35	info	buy track
11.	Drifting Light 08:27	info	buy track
12.	A Rose 08:48	info	buy track
13.	Breathe 06:30	info	buy track
14.	Modern 12:31	info	buy track
15.	The Voyager 06:23	info	buy track
16.	Echoes in the Mountains 08:03	info	buy track
17.	Song of the Starless Night 09:11	info	buy track
18.	Seeing Visions and Dreams 09:42	info	buy track
19.	One Night on Capistrano Beach 06:47	info	buy track

about

An introduction to my experimental ambient project Kowalski Room.

More of this sort of thing: kowalskiroom.bandcamp.com

More info:
kowalskiroom.com/albums/drifting-and-phasing/

Over the past few years, I have been exploring minimalism. My music tends to sound expansive. I've been looking at ways to use less ingredients in music and just how little I can use to still create an interesting and pleasing piece of music.

In the summer of 2017, I begin experimenting with phasing, a technique used by Steve Reich in his piece 'It's Gonna Rain'. I don't have access to two reel to reel tapes recorders so my experiments were purely digital and used a range of techniques similar but not quite the same of Steve Reich.

I start with a short clip - music, field recordings or found sounds - and loop it. It is usually something quite simple but with some interesting colours. I play a second loop of the same thing over the top but slightly out of sync. The two layers of the same sound then interact and create new atmospheres, rhythms and motifs. I find it mesmerising. It means that a short clip, sometimes only a few seconds in length, can become a very long piece of experimental ambient music.

At first, I did not reveal who was making this music. I felt my identity might come with a lot of preconceptions about what the music should be. While most of this is ambient, some is much more experimental - looping barely heard conversations, layers of a delivery truck reversing or the sound of water rolling along the side of a lake. I wanted to be free to experiment.

Now that I feel like Kowalski Room has its own identity, I am happy to reveal who is squirrelling away, making this music.

I'm really proud of this project. It is the kind of music I need to create. I hope you enjoy it too. There is plenty more to come.

You can find more at kowalskiroom.com

Watch the video for Breathe: youtu.be/9O2v4jo6PIk

Watch the video for One Night on Capistrano Beach: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M9FUwZusj8

credits

released February 17, 2019

All music written, performed and produced by Brin Coleman
at MCos, Manchester.

Cover design and photography by Brin Coleman.
Front cover photograph: Sunrise near Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 2015.

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Brin Coleman Manchester, UK

Prolific mostly ambient musician under numerous guises, filmmaker, freelance philosopher and probably more.

This page collects all of my music projects in one place for people who like this sort of thing.

It's going to take a while to get everything on here. I will start with compilations then add releases in order from the beginning.

Enjoy the music!

Photo by Alex Brinkley Coleman. ... more

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