Temple Of Spring

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Album Info

Release Date: 2021-04-20

Label: Not On Label

Professionally dubbed cassette tapes. Limited to 50 tapes.

Temple of Spring is a divergence from past releases as it draws back on ambience and textures in favor of acoustic fingerpicking and warm melodies. It’s music that celebrates the return of the sun after a cold dark northern winter spent locked up.

The tracks in this release are the results of a series of experimentations with tunings, capos/partial capos, and fingerpicking patterns.

Tracks 1, 2, 3, and 6 were written during summer 2019. The rest of the tracks were written during fall-winter 2020.

Recorded between December 2020 and January 2021 in my flat in Manchester, UK

Gear used: Harmony guitar, lapsteel (track 2 and 8), Yamaha keyboard loops (track 7), Kyser capo, modified Shubb 3 string partial capo, LR Baggs reverb, Digitech Digidelay, Hermida Tape Echo

Tunings:
Strange times we live in: DADEAd
Morning through my window: DGDEGd
At Least we still have dreams: DADEAd Capo 7
In the Wind: DGDEGd Partial capo 7
Dead on a Hilltop: CGCGCd
Pagan Sun: CGCGCd partial capo 5
Green Leaf: CGCGCd
Wake me up when this is over: CGCGCd