Warren Daly (Invisible Agent)
Mutable crystallizes Ebauche's signature sounds. I thoroughly enjoy his unique and fresh approach to music; Evolving layers of ambiance continually ascend over intriguing field recordings. Intricate compositions that always captivate and energize the listener.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Beautifully designed limited-edition 180g 12" vinyl gatefold, featuring the the artwork of Adrianna Snochowska who painted an individual painting for each track on the album. Each track has also been paired with a haiku and some free-form prose written whilst listening to the pieces and seeing the artwork. Includes hi-res digital download.
Includes unlimited streaming of Mutable
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Beautifully designed digipack CD with 16 page booklet featuring reproductions of paintings by Adrianna Snochowska, haikus, and short-form prose inspired by the music. Includes hi-res digital download.
Includes unlimited streaming of Mutable
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
"We’re already drenched in beauty, predisposed to like these tracks; and like them we do."
"The music becomes a living object. The synthesizers wrap around the field recordings like tree trunks growing over embedded objects. Everything is mutable."
Three years after the release of Adrift, Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard) returns with a beautiful new ambient LP. It is inspired by a strange disconnected dream during a long cross-country journey through Poland in the depths of winter in 2014. Mutable reflects the rhythms of that journey and the ethereal dreamscape which enveloped him.
Each track on Mutable pulsates and wraps around itself, gradually evolving its soundscape and encasing the listener in a deep and rewarding world. There is careful exploration of polyrhythmic variations within juxtaposed morphing drones bubbling out from stacks of synthesizers. The pieces are densely layered with fine detail, often only revealed on repeated listens, and are subtly backed by field recordings from locations around Poland.
Each piece on the album is accompanied by a unique painting created by Polish artist Adrianna Snochowska. The paintings are 50 x 35 cm mixed media (texture & oil paint) on canvas. Adrianna spent many hours listening to the draft mixes whilst creating these paintings and moulded the texture effects to the sounds on each track.
Additionally, long-time producer Arovane has provided a remix of Chwiać which is included on the release. The remix picks up on Chwiać’s pulsing polyrhythms and wraps them in layers of gritty distortion and subtle melodic nuances, underpinned by driving beats.
credits
released April 23, 2018
Written and produced by Ebauche (Alex Leonard),
except #4 remixed by Arovane
Original oil paintings created for each track by Adrianna Snochowska
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios
Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard) has been producing music since 2001. Musically his output covers a range of dark beat driven
electronic music, to sublime ambient cascades, to simple piano compositions.
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we're all beside a wooded creek, laying on this silken mossy chord, listening as leaves tumble down in succession. the pond nearby catches each leaf and we sync our thoughts using the chain of ripples in the water. thanks a lot for this one. recommended for relaxation or when it just gets to be too much out there Ews Nsj