It’s called Home, and for a myriad of reasons… from my attempts to examine and re-examine what ‘home’ means, living 7,000 miles from my own, in a place that goes out of its way to remind you every time you leave the house that where you are is not your home… to really what ‘home’ means philosophically I guess, how much of it derives its meaning intrinsically, how much of it i...(展开全部) It’s called Home, and for a myriad of reasons… from my attempts to examine and re-examine what ‘home’ means, living 7,000 miles from my own, in a place that goes out of its way to remind you every time you leave the house that where you are is not your home… to really what ‘home’ means philosophically I guess, how much of it derives its meaning intrinsically, how much of it is manufactured, and really what it means to ‘be home’… to the fact that my return to Echospace is really a return home for so many reasons I could never even attempt to outline here. This issue of what home means, and what it means to be home, is one I’ve grappled with for years upon years of self-imposed exile in China, isolated from everyone and everything that I would associate with what at least would best encroach on a standard definition of ‘home’… it’s hard to describe until you experience it yourself, like most things, I guess. The album is a bit hard to describe… while it obviously has many qualities that my work always contains, there’s just something about it that is nothing like anything else I’ve made… I really don’t know how to describe it… from the way it sounds, to the way it feels, there is just something about it that’s unlike anything else I’ve made. It’s by far my most hypnotic work, and really possibly my most powerful, but in a quieter way than I think most would expect when I use a word like that, as I’m generally known for being pretty overboard. It’s pretty massive… a double CD, all of my own work, with one CD containing (some) beats, and one beatless, but it’s dramatically different from White Clouds Drift On and On, much darker, much more hypnotic, and more somber in some ways, while in some ways going to new heights of emotion that even White Clouds couldn’t reach, or really anything I’ve made before. I really am honestly perplexed with this fascination in recent years with seeing what artists look like. Who cares? As with anything, I don’t really know how or why it came out the way it did, I just listened to my heart and went with what it said… but (just like White Clouds) it was made from beginning to end completely from scratch purely for Echospace, and more importantly, was the first time I sat down to try to face this issue of ‘home’ head-on… a lot of my music touches on it, as it’s such a massive part of my daily life, but this is the only time I’ve ever really tried to face it head-on, in all its beautiful, horrible, exhilarating, terrifying glory. Though it couldn’t really be much more different from my last Echospace album, it shares a similarity, in that it could have only been made for Echospace. No one else in the world could bring out what it brought out in me. As always, I just hope someone can feel what I feel.
曲目
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DISK 1:
[ a heart of darkness ]
mountains will keep your secrets (10:33)
empty houses from above (19:30)
you built a kingdom, but no one said its name (14:04)
ambient是内向的音乐,安谧沉寂的氛围是对浮躁喧嚣外界的静修,每天听很多唱片,在自己一大堆节奏澎湃的Techno和享乐主义的loung里,Brock Van Wey的这张是2014年上半年至今唯一一张从精神层面打动自己的专辑。 这位在中国做外教的美国人除了音乐,文字也很好,他自己写的这张...
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0 有用 Milight 2014-02-10 19:20:51
哥的碟估计寄丢噜。。
0 有用 jiyun 2022-09-30 12:46:05 北京
加州人,在绍兴。
0 有用 Khaos 2018-01-26 01:01:34
冬天里听这张,四围静得可怕。中国语言里形容冬天的那个词,被这个美国人诠释得太淋漓尽致:“看化”。
0 有用 Водка40% 2022-01-23 07:46:44
世界顶级电子音乐制作人
0 有用 スラリン 2019-04-10 21:42:59
mountains will keep your secrets 想到了雪姐姐送的那本书里的树 记得所有发生的事情 藏在树心 刻进年轮 这张碟里取名都直白浪漫 还挺喜欢的 正巧今天首张黑洞的照片被公开 听ambient大多时候给自己设定的场景多是宇宙 荒漠 冰山极地 自然科学和艺术本身就应该共同交织成影与音
0 有用 tiva 2015-11-15 08:45:26
can't go home without you
0 有用 スラリン 2019-04-10 21:42:59
mountains will keep your secrets 想到了雪姐姐送的那本书里的树 记得所有发生的事情 藏在树心 刻进年轮 这张碟里取名都直白浪漫 还挺喜欢的 正巧今天首张黑洞的照片被公开 听ambient大多时候给自己设定的场景多是宇宙 荒漠 冰山极地 自然科学和艺术本身就应该共同交织成影与音
0 有用 禅巳 2014-09-30 13:53:45
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0 有用 Milight 2014-02-10 19:20:51
哥的碟估计寄丢噜。。
0 有用 Khaos 2018-01-26 01:01:34
冬天里听这张,四围静得可怕。中国语言里形容冬天的那个词,被这个美国人诠释得太淋漓尽致:“看化”。