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On Urban Holiday, Ian D. Hawgood's first of two Lunar Flower releases, Hawgood employs simple effect manipulations and turns them into striking compositional tools. Double tracking and quick delays provide Hawgood with an endless array of unique patterns for his instrumental voices, and with them, he plays upon the listener's emotions and psychology to stunning effect.
Hawgood opens the album with a meditative, permeating digital drone that dominates the sonic landscape in "Green is the Field We Were Born," before quickly switching gears into a breakneck electronic backbeat on his ode to a Japanese national garden, "Shinjuku Gyoen." This piece is marked by digital tones that seem to imitate the distinct sounds of the shakuhachi bamboo flute, making for a composition that is at once peaceful and jarring.
"I Walk Out of My Apartment Eyes Down" is a brief but gorgeous interlude that utilizes a unique mixture of instruments and eases the listener into the onslaught of what sounds like a choir of backwards gramophones in "Rejoice Brooklyn." Both "Rejoice Brooklyn" and the following piece, "Tetracyclic Chemical Structures," take a cue from the complex repeating rhythms found in 20th century Minimalist music, bending the listener's psyche through the use of constantly changing rhythmic patterns.
"It's a Lake," one of the most ambient pieces on the album, consists of haunting string drones broken up by hard-panned and delayed synth sounds. Throughout many of the tracks on Urban Holiday, and most prevalently on "It's a Lake," Hawgood sends human voices careening through the mix - an ingenious technique that grounds these digitized creations in a stark reality focused on people and places.
With its pleasant tones and quietly meandering melodic lines, "Agoraphobia" sounds more like a soothing cure for social anxieties rather than a representation of them - in an aesthetic sense, it serves as the album's second interlude before closing with the exciting, organic title track. Rather than using electronic percussion for this piece, Hawgood fashions a raucous rhythm from harsh, distorted sounds and highly structured loops. The livelihood of "Urban Holiday" serves as a fitting end to an album whose contrary but quite noble functions are to provide the listener with both a representation and an escape from the rush of everyday modern existence.
This audio is part of the collection: Lunarflower
Artist/Composer: Ian D. Hawgood
Date: 2008-05-24
Keywords: Ambient, lunarflower, Ian D. Hawgood, Lunar Flower
Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
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| Green Is The Field We Were Born | 19 MB | 8.89 MB | 3.88 MB | 14 MB |
| Shinjuku Gyoen | 16 MB | 5.68 MB | 3.24 MB | 11 MB |
| I Walk Out Of My Apartment Eyes Down | 1.07 MB | 286 KB | 205 KB | 436 KB |
| Rejoice Brooklyn | 15 MB | 5.23 MB | 2.90 MB | 9.67 MB |
| Tetracyclic Chemical Structures | 13 MB | 4.60 MB | 2.49 MB | 7.97 MB |
| Its A Lake | 19 MB | 6.36 MB | 3.71 MB | 11 MB |
| Agoraphobia | 4.96 MB | 1.47 MB | 1001 KB | 2.63 MB |
| Urban Holiday | 16 MB | 5.89 MB | 3.19 MB | 11 MB |
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| lunar_back_150.jpg | 20 KB |
| lunar_back_250.jpg | 49 KB |
| lunar_front_150.jpg | 12 KB |
| back insert | 31 KB |
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| LF-010_Urban_Holiday_Ian_D_Hawgood_reviews.xml | Metadata | 2.52 KB |
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Reviewer: brian'sworld - - May 24, 2009
Subject: hidden
my least favourite of hawgood's release seems a hidden one. but 'immature' sampling??? seen him twice live and he loops live instruments and field work in everything - no sampling that i could see. and how is it 'immature'??? its a fun record with great range. ignore the previous review.
Reviewer: maxiii - - April 27, 2009
Subject: eh...
This isn't nearly as interesting as the other stuff on Lunar Flower. I honestly don't get the appeal. Its ok, but nothing special. Very armature use of sampling and loops, recording quality is low, and cover art is bad. Skip this one.
Reviewer: hoppish - - May 28, 2008
Subject: A unique voice and sound
This is totally different from the other three releases on Luv Sound and Resting Bell. Upon first listen I was so shocked I was a little upset actually - he could be the king of massive drones and on 12k or something like that. Instead he has made a totally unique ambient, soul, jazz, electronica but very warbled and old sounding record. Shinjuku Gyoen is an amazing song - it sounds like it should be on some old tape machine but then you have a great electronic choppy beat. Its take a good few listens to understand but there is so much to his music it will always evolve. Love the artwork as well!
Reviewer: junbuggy - - May 26, 2008
Subject: Unexpected
Hawgood's third release is very different. Fun minimal ambient and very rhythmic. Its organic nature is lovely. Its hard to put a genre to this but he is great artist and musician. It goes between electronica to folk guitar to trumpet and on and on. Cool.
