Forgotten Outland by Spheruleus

“Forgotten Outland is a short album released on the fabulous Resting Bell netlabel, inspired after a walk around disused farmland. The walk inspired the Paper Relics project with my brother Stuart first and foremost, but I came away with lots of ideas and wanted to do a solo release too. During the recording process for Voyage, I made lots of sketches and some of them turned out to be far too musical to use. Despite this, I continued to rework them over and over as I felt very fond of them and wanted to use them somehow. The more they were processed and re-arranged, the more worn out they sounded; the once hi-fi quality shrinking into a bed of hiss. Thinking back to the walk around the farm, with all of the rusting equipment, over-grown barns and dark dusty sheds I’d seen that day, I struck an idea that tied in with these recordings. They sounded as if they could have been uncovered from one of these dusty old sheds under a pile of rubble. I imagined how the worn out grooves of a vinyl record riddled with white dust would sound under a stylus. How it would force the melodies to sound tired, blurred and warped.”

Spheruleus is Lincolnshire, UK based artist Harry Towell. His work has been released on labels such as Under The Spire, Hibernate, Home Normal and Time Released Sound. The Spheruleus sound is produced using acoustic instruments, manipulated into timeworn, rustic and melancholy compositions.

He also runs Whitelabrecs and the Audio Gourmet netlabel.

https://whitelabrecs.com/

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