Fox by Akira Film Script
ODG214: Akira Film Script / Fox
Akira Film Script is the wide-reaching electronic music output from electronic musician and producer Ryan Watts. With sonic scopes ranging from blissful ambient and melodic techno, to post-everything noisecore; nothing is off limits for his musical expressions and sound explorations under the Akira Film Script banner.
Heavily influenced by Detroit, Chicago, Japanese, and European electronic and experimental artists, Neo-Classical and Jazz concepts, 80s/90s VHS-era anime, and science fiction/fantasy literature, Akira Film Script seeks to transcend our day-to-day in favor of the more transcendental realms.
Hear more at akirafilmscript.com
Ryan says about the album:
"The inception of "Fox" began with the cover art; a picture my daughter drew at school of a cute fox, curled up taking a nap. I told her I'd scan it and make it the artwork for a new album that I was yet to create.
For weeks, she asked me when I was going to make the "fox music" and kept telling me she wanted to be involved somehow - playing, singing, field recording (a favorite practice of hers, strangely).
We travelled for 14 days at the end of last year, and I'd recently expanded my field kit a bit, and as such, had a very portable, DAWless setup for the first time ever. We recorded FM and AM Jazz samples and radio oddities from local radio stations between California, Oregon, Nevada, and Virginia direct to an OP-1 field, recorded friends and family's instruments (including my mother-in-law's favorite upright piano, and my wife's childhood church's organ), as well as silverware in drawers, clicking clocks, wind storms, rain storms, a babbling creek; all sorts of audio epherma.
These are the results of those recording and field sessions, composed into ambient jazz works - vignettes of the memories we built compiling the source material. To give it a nod of nostalgia, many parts were downsampled, recorded to digital and physical tapes for altered playback, or tape loops to give additional character for the final recording sessions."
Tracklist
| 1. | Fox | 3:16 |
| 2. | Etheridge Manor | 2:11 |
| 3. | 14 Days | 4:01 |
| 4. | Phoenix and Talent | 3:49 |
| 5. | Shortloaf | 2:06 |
| 6. | Duck Pond | 3:16 |
| 7. | Ashland Snow | 3:13 |
| 8. | Mount Pleasant | 4:53 |
| 9. | Chichos | 2:43 |
| 10. | Deer Trail | 1:38 |
| 11. | Soft Storms | 5:51 |
| 12. | Promenade | 3:52 |
| 13. | Fox (Reprise) | 2:32 |
