Wixel - Winter

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Davis MacLeod Haines simple experiment, beautifully executed. i was looking for a soundtrack to read by. this fit about as perfectly as any album could hope to. Favorite track: Stumbling Music #3.

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"Winter, The Paperback Edition" is here to replace the original hardcover edition, which sold out rather quickly. Use the images to figure out what it looks like. Also includes immediate download of 15 track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire."

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1.	Acoustic Hum 00:32	buy track
2.	The Bergeron Process 01:15	buy track
3.	Winter Waltz #1 01:28	buy track
4.	Dawn Chorus 00:45	buy track
5.	Aesthetics Of Clouds 03:16	buy track
6.	January 4th 02:05	buy track
7.	Stumbling Music #2 01:23	buy track
8.	Melsbroek 01:56	buy track
9.	Winter Waltz #2 01:30	buy track
10.	Vaarwel 02:26	buy track
11.	Stumbling Music #1 01:24	buy track
12.	Aerosan 01:27	buy track
13.	Stumbling Music #3 01:55	buy track
14.	Winter Sun 03:02	buy track
15.	Reading Music 04:24	buy track

about

Hello,

Welcome to the first edition - January - of my awesome and/or stupid 2009 project. It’s a project in which I force myself to record and release a record within each month of the year 2009. There are certain rules and guidelines which I must obey. You can find those at the wixel website. Due to the limited time of recording, and the constant output, this thing will feel very much feel like a personal journal. I have no clue whether it’s going to be interesting or not. It will just exist, I guess. Some months will be more interesting/better sounding than others. I’ll always explain in these liner notes what’s going on each month.

For the first record my setup included nothing but an acoustic guitar, a microphone and the ableton live software used as a traditional multitrack recorder. No fancy effects, nor fancy plugins. Just the basic controls of recording, cutting, pasting and adjusting the volume. I thought a constraint in options would result in getting more out of less, and at some points I did come across some marvelous sounds. ‘Melsbroek’ for example is nothing but a few hundred recordings of various singles notes, with the volume turned down at each beginning, then slowly turned up while all notes are placed in a way so the guitar starts to sound like an organ. I quite like the effect.

The record is titled “Winter” because I feel it could be a nice compagnon for the “Herfst” ep I did with Wixel a few years back. The pictures included were all taken during the month of January. It rarely snows this much in Belgium. I like winter.

// wim

There's also a physical version, limited to 31 copies, one for each day of the month.

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released January 31, 2009

Wim: Acoustic guitar + recordings.
Jo: sleeping and reading sounds + random sofa noises.

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