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Deepwater Bay

by Raymond Tani

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Le Morte d’Abby
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Le Morte d’Abby A nice ambient flow of ethereal and atmospheric textures with the occasional appearance of a woodwind or two. Well done! Favorite track: Deepwater Bay.
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Iker GS This album transports the listener to a place of power, and not a good one.
It conveys dread and a sense of imminent menace from something ancient, shapeless, nameless.

Musically, it's closer to avant-garde classical than anything else. And it's full of subtle details, I forecast this album will age well.

It's an unsettling listening but you cannot stop listening.
Yes, it's that good.

This will be a recurring listening on my forest hikes and on my paranormal drinking sessions.
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Deepwater Bay 34:09
2.
Whitefish 15:06

about

Op. 6
No. 1 'Deepwater Bay',
No. 2 'Whitefish'

This project has its headwaters in the book 'Sleeping Island' by PG Downes.

With 'Deepwater Bay' I realized a long held dream of 'classical' music, and classical music in a suitably lengthy form. I say classical in the 'new classical' sense, not bothered by traditional constraints or conventions - rather, classical in what I perceive to be the treatment of spatial imaging and sonority.
There is no A-B-A form or such here. These pieces are tone poems. This is programme music. There are naturally antecedents to these pieces and some of those works are among my most cherished musical experiences to which I attempted to invoke and pay homage whilst trying to paint something separate and mine.
'Deepwater Bay' and 'Whitefish' are built around woodwinds and to a smaller degree brass instruments. They provide the voices I needed. The electronics are support primarily, and are used in a 60's or 70's approach. When I was making this project I had a clear image in my head of the presentation of these pieces in a live setting. Firstly, I wanted a new music ensemble to perform this. It was what I saw and heard right from the get-go as I recorded. I saw too, a stage arrangement of players in a circle with no one in a first instrument position. Space within the pieces would allow for improvisation if the ensemble were in the mood. The electronics would sit in this arrangement but just as one of the group.
This work is complete and stands alone, however, there is a choral accompaniment using the beloved mellotron. Time will tell if that work is released.

credits

released March 21, 2022

Keyboards - Raymond Tani
Recorded Winter 2020 Spring/Summer 2021.

Artwork - RT
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Thank you wherever you may be;
P.G. Downes (Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens - 1943)

and Tanya Tagaq ('Animism')

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Free-classical by inclination.
Experimental Piano
Electronic music
Absolutely nothing in common with anyone, anywhere.
Music taken seriously

21st century tone poems..
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