Soundflowers, by James Murray

Soundflowers

by James Murray

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home music Massive in sound and vision, James has produced another standout ambient album of fearless identity and personality. This is such a soulful journey and the way he blends superb sound design, thunderous subs and subtle melodic structures is really very special. Favorite track: Meadowsweet.

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1.	Open Heart 05:48	buy track
2.	No More Roses 07:15	buy track
3.	Meadowsweet 08:41	buy track
4.	Bluebell Tontine 05:34	buy track
5.	Forget Me Not 06:36	buy track
6.	Post Script (I Love You) 06:56	buy track

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"a blazing panorama of synthesizer-charged grandeur"

- Ron Schepper, textura

www.textura.org/archives/m/murray_soundflowers.htm

Melodies, harmonies and arrangements on James Murray’s new album Soundflowers arise from a generative compositional approach centred around the Torso T-1 algorithmic sequencer. When technology is invited to seed the natural order the process can yield collaborative sonic forms that spontaneously, unexpectedly unfurl within the composer’s care.

Texture and tone emerge from hardware too: Tasty Chips GR-1, ARP Odyssey, Haken ContinuuMini, ASM Hydrasynth, Arturia MicroFreak and a pair of Menq Qi Wingie IIs providing harmonic overtones. Thus analogue layers grow from synthetic seeds, from the overwhelming romance of wistful advance single No More Roses through to the album’s crowning crescendo Post Script (I Love You). This is a machine-penned love letter to nature in all its beautifully thorny forms, an unmistakably contemporary pastorale under whose surface course wild undercurrents of emotional turbulence and environmental anxiety.

Soundflowers appears across all digital platforms and in our CDr edition on a recycled six-panel insert featuring photography by Grant Gard aka Landtitles, sealed in a rubber-stamped envelope bearing a custom postage stamp, enclosed within a wax paper bag. Hand assembled at Slowcraft with utmost care.

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released April 21, 2023

Music by James Murray
Photography by Grant Gard
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Design by Slowcraft

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