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A distant beach in landlocked Sheffield

by Ian Baxter

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Chris Hobbs A really lovely and understated ambient track. Keeping in line with Ian's exploration of place, this track allows space for a soundscape with a less specific sense of location to overlap elegantly into the ethereal. I've found myself listening to this piece very frequently. Engaging at the forefront and gentle in the background, as if specifically developed to the philosophy laid out by Brian Eno. Favorite track: A distant beach in landlocked Sheffield.
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Originally released by GHOSTS as part of the 'Adventures' cassette tape in 2008 (hand-wrapped in a torn piece of roadmap - I wish I could find my original copy for the artwork).

Original piece of writing that accompanied the piece:

When thinking about travel I'm often reminded of the Henry David Thoreau quote about him not travelling the world but being proud to have “travelled widely in Concord” (his home town). With this in mind I think about the routes I have walked around Sheffield or my hometown in Cheshire. Often when I walk down a street that used to be a regular route I have a strange fantasy of travelling in my own past, half expecting to meet a younger version of myself walking the other way. Something about the light, or weather on a certain day heightens this feeling, triggering memories of long forgotten routine walks. Home from school with grass-stained knees from breaktime football, to the library with a bag of books as a student, in automatic drunken hazes from nights out in town…

Sounds are another important trigger for such memories. A couple of months ago half asleep on a late, late drive back from London we ghosted down a road where I used to live. When I lived there years ago I would lie in bed listening to cars driving down the road and now I was one of those late night travellers. Was someone lying in bed listening to me? That road was special, something about the position of the houses back from the road and the geography of the long, straight road turned the sound of the cars into something like waves: the sound of a distant beach in landlocked Sheffield.

Over 4 years I lived in various shabby rented houses on that street and I made several recordings of the sound of cars passing. Probably around the same time I was falling in love with the idea that recording something frames it and turns it into music. However, the only one I could find is on a 4 track cassette tape marked up ‘Hungover -11.30 Sunday”. It's me idly plucking some minor chords whilst a mic hung out of the window picks up the sound of cars passing on the road.

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released June 27, 2022
Composed by Ian Baxter

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Ian Baxter Sheffield, UK

I'm a sound artist based in Sheffield UK. My primary interest is in the creation of slowly evolving soundscapes. This takes in aspects of traditional electro-acoustic composition and an interest in getting my hands dirty with electronics and computer programming. I often seek to compose in a way where the outcome is not necessarily foreseen (one definition of experimental music) ... more

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