Finisterre Point by Andy Pickford

You know, when you make a lot music like me, I feel less qualified to judge my own stuff rather than more so. It's as if you really can't tell, since everything happens too fast to really appreciate it. It's a shame and I feel robbed of the ability to just sit back and appreciate anything I do like it's unique or special. I haven't the time and I don't like that feeling. Yeah but I've never been a touring performer and I'm not much into being the centre of attention. Not exactly useful traits for getting anywhere! No, I'm a geeky EM/Electronica dude - always was and likely always will be now. But, looking back over all those albums not one is a "lighthouse album". Well dammit! Everyone's got to do at least one lighthouse album, especially if they've been touched by the Hand of Prog at some point! It's obligatory and I find myself quite failing in my duties! Finisterre point is definitely a lighthouse; I remember hearing all about it every night, when I was a little kid, in the shipping forecast before the BBC radio closed down for the night. Ships still had sails in those days and outside shithouses were still all the rage. Well neither the track nor the album has jack all to do with lighthouses or anything. It's just that Finisterre, being "World's End" reminds me of one of my favourite Simon Pegg movies and sounds like a good synthy kind of title to use. That's me, the depths of my artisticness knows no bounds :-D

In all actuality this is quite a bit more Berlin School than usual, well as much as my interpretation of that goes. I think Linear Functions served to remind me that I am what I am. You ought to check that album out btw - being my first output, from the 1980s, it's important, to me at least.

It's also something I wanted to sound a little more chilled and way out there than usual. It might be tempting to put it in the RadioSilence category but it's had way too much tweaking for that. It's oriented towards the Atmos sound. I can't easily compose music in Atmos to begin with, but I do know which kind of sounds will benefit from it at the mastering stage. So this is really created with that in mind from the offset. It plays nicely to that extended "sound blob" which Atmos does. It's not surround but it's not stereo either. I would call it immersive and distinct. But it's not surround sound. Even hearing it rendered as a 5.1 file doesn't change that. It's a sort of pseudo 3D sound blob and the more speakers you add, the bigger the sound blob gets. But it doesn't change the effect or the principle behind it. I like it but hey ho, I bet something better will come along in a year or two and then we'll have a play with that too!

Anyway, enjoy the album if it's your thing. Cheers :-) AP

Tracklist

1.	Finisterre Point	11:07

2.	Nimbus	11:43

3.	Archipelago	13:25

4.	The Golden Age of Colostomus	12:42

5.	Caprice	12:35

6.	Hallowed Be Our Mycelium Overlords	12:20

7.	Castilla	5:39

8.	Finisterre Point (Atmos) whole album @ 16bit	79:31

9.	Finisterre Point (OG Stereo) whole album @ 16bit	79:31

Credits

released October 7, 2023

Produced August-October 2023 by AP. Everything conceivable done by AP at his garage of space junk in Castle Donington. Presented as 24bit wavs in Dolby Atmos binaural stereo for your delectation. Approved by the cats, especially by Pixie whose aim is to kick me off my chair around midnight anyway, so she can have it.
If you play this on a small stereo system and it sounds distorted, this is the sound of your speakers dying. Try headphones instead. This is a full frequency, unshelved 24bit Dolby Atmos binaural sound field. It's not intended for baby monitors okay. Jus' sayin'.
(V2 111023 - Atmos field tweaked slightly)
(V3 211023 - superwide Atmos field created by splitting the sound over 5 frequency bands, removing "binaural fx" and panning the splits throughout the sound field)

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