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The Deep was originally released on Something Else Records in 1994 and
alongside his previous album, The Uncertainty Principle, has proved to
be one of his most popular pre-DiN releases. Inspired by the film The Abyss the original 11 tracks form a continuous suite of music that cover
everything from dark ambient soundscapes, Berlin school sequencing
through to melodic synth instrumentals. Opening with the haunting sound
of a submarine sonar the eerie Ligeti chord masses explode to life with
the heavily sequenced Dark Descent. The title track is narrated by David
Burns and sets the scene with some awe inspiring facts about the deep
ocean which remains largely unexplored. The music then follows a path
from the surface down to the dark depths of the hydrosphere until
reemerging with the classical orchestrations of Sub-Aquiem before the
album finally fades with the return of the sonar. This is as close as
Boddy ever got to a true concept album and compositionally stands up to
anything else in that oeuvre.
This reissue sees Dutch EM label Groove Unlimited working with Boddy to bring the definitive version of this classic electronic music album back to print. Remastered by Boddy himself there are also a couple of unreleased bonus tracks from the same time period adding an extra 12 minutes of material.
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All tracks composed by Ian Boddy, except * by Ian Boddy & David Berkeley.
Produced and engineered by Ian Boddy and mixed to DAT at Something Else Studios (April - August 1994).
Original artwork design by Gary Scott.
Originally released on Something Else Records in 1994 (SER006).
This editions reissued on Groove Unlimited (GR-310).
Remastered by Ian Boddy March 2021.
Aquanauts:
Ian Boddy : Akai S3000 & MPC-60, Roland JD-990, D-550 & 100-M
Modular System, Kurzweil K2000, Korg Wavestation and VCS-3.
David Berkeley : Additional keyboards on Re-Emergence.
Jane Molloy : Voice on Sirens Call.
David Burns : Voice on The Deep and Sub-Aquiem.
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about Bass Communion And No Birds Sing
This first 28 minute sequence is assembled from material created for the film, dark industrial sound design, with cavernous metal scrapes, water drips, subterranean drones, and shortwave radio transmissions.
The second theme piece is more beautiful and harmonic, built around a sequence of chords in regular intervals that only arrives back at the beginning after moving through 24 different piano chords.
And No Birds Sing is a story that crosses genres, having aspects of Psychological Thriller, Horror and Mystery. Reality merges with film and the supernatural when a London director starts to experience strange events and is forced to confront his troubled past. The film blurs the lines of reality, memory and fiction where sound constantly motivates the twists and turns of the action.
So far a 4 minute test trailer for the film has been shot, watch it here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqIlIePsKF8
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All sound by SW 2020-2021 as Bass Communion
Final assembly and mix June 2021
Voices by Yali and Mia
Cover photograph and design by Carl Glover for Aleph
Audio resolution - 48k/24 bit
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