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Nightscape

by Alfredo Santa Ana

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    180 gram grey-coloured 12" LP pressed in Canada in the summer of 2021. Album design & Art direction by Dirk Wright.

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    180 gram 12" LP pressed in Canada in the summer of 2021. Album design & Art direction by Dirk Wright.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Nightscape via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 100 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $30 CAD or more 

     

1.
It's in the Soil 1 01:31
2.
Echoes from a Vanishing Paracosm 03:05
3.
Roleplay 01:23
4.
Night Vessel 01:40
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Lose Contact 01:39
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Peacock 01:08
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Pilgrimage 02:08
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The Introvert 02:10
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Blooming Dark 01:12
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Lights on! 01:14
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Signals 02:35
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Lifting the Veil 02:18
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Abandon all previous strategies... 03:37
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Inner Migration 01:51
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The Last Hymn 01:45
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Lost Future 02:13
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It's in the Soil 2 02:35

about

"moody and gripping...a dynamic and highly palatable story, which nicely breaks expectation regularly. it feels over too soon, in a good way, making me want to go back and listen again."
-Michael Red (souns / la fe / chambers / low indigo)

A carefully organized collection of acoustic artifacts, Nightscape slowly unfolds over 17 tracks as a gathering of echoes and messages from an unknown or alternate timeline. It is music that can be experienced as accompaniment to a nocturnal expedition through an abandoned city, where the listener finds the vanishing sounds of out-of-tune pianos, birds, organs, voices, bells, trumpets, and drum machines. With a musical aesthetic preoccupied with nostalgia, isolation, and time, each track combines layers of notated and quasi-improvised musical material into a dark chamber-like electronic suite of disquieting miniatures. Gradually, the music of Nightscape folds into a communion with the uncertainty that inspired it, suggesting that sometimes, even after dawn, the night is still present.

credits

released October 5, 2021

Music by Alfredo Santa Ana

Poetry and spoken word by Alfredo Gonzalez Bouret, Colin Browne, Alisen Santa Ana, and Luis J. Rodriguez

Performed, produced, and mixed by Alfredo Santa Ana

Mastering by Andrew Spindor at Railtown Mastering
Art Direction by Dirk Wright

Audio excerpts courtesy of ITV Archive/Powell & Pressburger, and Claudia Chan Shaw. Poetry by by Los Angeles Poet Laurate, Luis J. Rodriguez from Trochemoche: Poems, Curbstone Press, courtesy of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York, NY and Lamy, NM, all rights reserved

Nightscape was recorded between July and November of 2020 on the ancestral and unceded Coast Salish territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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Alfredo Santa Ana Vancouver, British Columbia

Mexican/Canadian composer.

Writes music for live performance, electronic music, and sometimes for films.

Teaches music theory and composition.

Plays guitar in a band and puts out albums on his label ASA Records in a range of genres that include classical or contemporary concert music, electronic/ambient, and film soundtracks. ... more

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