Impermanence

by Ian Hawgood

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    Each heavyweight custom double sleeve is individually rubber-stamped and numbered by hand in a limited first edition of one hundred and fifty copies for the world. Every package includes a concealed handwritten download code, glass-mastered CD and insert with original artwork by Stijn Hüwels and an individually numbered, handwritten dedication from the artist himself.

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about

Mono No Aware

Impermanence is a love letter to transience, fragility and the analogue machines Ian Hawgood persuades to articulate the poignantly brittle beauty of decay. After many years of in-demand mastering, label curation and collaborative focus Hawgood now offers us a definitive portrait of the technical expertise and personal integrity demanded by exemplary modern tape-based practice.

In studios between Tokyo and Warsaw walls of reel-to-reel tape recorders, analogue synthesisers, processed textures and degraded cassette recordings were all carefully coaxed into braiding together their hiss, wow, flutter and warmth into this beautifully flowing nine-chapter arc of delicately unpredictable sound. Impermanence is an understated, finely wrought work that honours process and outcome equally, exhibiting a rare tonal and conceptual elegance throughout and marking an assured return to solo composition from a true master of the analogue arts.

Impermanence is the fourth in the Slowcraft Presents series created and curated by James Murray: exceptional, unclassifiable music offered in carefully handcrafted limited editions for people who treasure beautiful audio artefacts.

Selected Press:

"Impermanence is a sublime document of sonic ephemerality and extraordinary filigree in terms of both texture and emotion."
- Stationary Travels

stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/premiere-whispers-from-impermanence-by-ian-hawgood/

"Technically located at an extremely high level... each of the 9 songs has stunning charm." - Gezeitenstrom

gezeitenstrom.weebly.com/reviews/ian-hawgood-impermanence-2019

"Music of significant value... along with enlightened levels of patience, Hawgood instils a deep calm into the fabric of the record."
- Fluid Radio

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2019/04/ian-hawgood-impermanence/

"Admirers of everything hand-made, intimate, and intricately curated will be in love... highly recommended." - Headphone Commute

headphonecommute.com/2019/04/02/ian-hawgood-ever-loved/

credits

released April 18, 2019

Written, Produced and Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Stijn Hüwels
Design by James Murray

Recording:
Studer A80 for mixdowns and mastering (acquired by British Library)
Studer A807 for mixdowns (acquired by British Library)
2 x Revox PR99 Mk I and II
2 x BBC modded Revox PR99 as mono-delay units
2 x Revox A77
Akai reel-to-reels (various) on loop

Transfer:
Nagra VII

Synths:
Korg MonoPoly
Korg LP-10
Korg Polysix
Korg Poly800 II
Roland Juno 106
Sequential Prophet Six
Sequential Circuits Six Trak
Roland JP8000

Fields Recording:
Sony Cassette Tape hanging from our apartment by the river in Nakajuku, Tokyo

No computers were used in these recordings.

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Created and curated by James Murray, Slowcraft presents exceptional, unclassifiable music in carefully handcrafted limited editions for people who treasure beautiful audio artefacts.

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