Uruwhenua by Sonophyla
Uruwhenua is a collection of analogue explorations and improvisations recorded on a Vestafire 4-track cassette machine over an 18-month period circa 1997. Finally digitized 24 years later, then arranged, processed, and mixed in Reaper. All tracks were mastered in iZotope Ozone.
I set myself the limitation of not using any exogenous sound (i.e. not adding anything that wasn't originally recorded on tape), but consider digital effects processing and noise gates to be fine since to a large extent they could have been generated using analogue hardware in a 1997 studio.
Instruments: Jansen Corsair 6-string guitar, vintage Jansen tube amplifier, Boss digital delay, Casiotone MT-240, RAT distortion pedal, turntable, Ensoniq Mirage sampler, various cheap percussion instruments
Tracklist
| 1. | Cold Sweat / Reverse Rush | 10:03 |
| 2. | Deep Cenotic Grooves ov the Interstyx [single version] | 10:44 |
| 3. | Sold the Bass to Get to Japan, So... | 7:52 |
| 4. | Pique Experi.ents | 7:00 |
| 5. | We Speak in Cells | 8:48 |
| 6. | Qosmosis [shortform] | 6:28 |
| 7. | Innumerably [sitar preset] | 10:03 |
| 8. | Morphemic Resonances ov Dis- [vocal version] | 6:53 |
| 9. | Heart ov the Mechanism | 12:01 |
| 10. | Из пасти / Out ov the Maw | 14:46 |
| 11. | Cicadan (sic) Rhythms ov High Summer | 6:09 |
| 12. | Non-Binary Star | 10:44 |
| 13. | Claves x 6String | 9:05 |
| 14. | Swung Dash | 3:33 |
| 15. | Psyborg Freakeasy, New Babylon, Mars, 2097 | 15:20 |
| 16. | Wyrd Utterances | 9:04 |
| 17. | Casio-Tunneller | 10:53 |
| 18. | Cambrient Ooze | 5:45 |
| 19. | A Frank Convosession | 35:52 |
| 20. | Petri Dish | 7:46 |
| 21. | Qosmosis [longform] | 15:17 |
| 22. | Deep Cenotic Grooves ov the Interstyx [longform] | 18:00 |
| 23. | Morphemic Resonances ov Dis- [instrumental version] | 6:55 |
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Sonophyla is the umbrella name for all audio recordings made by Stìobhan Lothian and the odd collaborator.
'Sono' refers to sound, while 'phyla' - taken from biology - refers to "Organisms (that) share a set of characteristics distinguishing them from organisms in another phylum." In this context, musical styles that span a range of genres, unlike the vast majority of genre-specific labels.