{"id":10795,"date":"2021-05-11T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10795"},"modified":"2021-05-10T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:56:05","slug":"new-release-dan-powells-four-walks-at-old-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10795","title":{"rendered":"New release: Dan Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Four Walks at Old Chapel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Old Chapel Farm is an adventure in living which aims to bring people closer to the fundamentals of human existence: the creation of food and of shelter. It is a bridge reaching forwards into a newer, more sustainable way of being in a rapidly changing and highly populated world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a family we have been visiting this place every year since 2011. In 2017 I decided to produce a piece about Old Chapel Farm as part of my series which focuses on personal experience of a space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our trip in 2018 my daughter Bea and I collected objects we found around the site and gathered them together in a straw bale hut suspended over a stream in a wooded valley which the farm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s owners made available for us to use. We recorded small performances with them, brushing, scraping and rubbing them to produce a wide range of intimate sounds. We also made field recordings around the site, including using a piano which had been exposed to the elements for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the studio in Brighton, I arranged the recorded sounds into a new work. I wanted to try and communicate some of the mystery and revelation I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve experienced on my visits, and the connections I feel with the land and people I encounter when I visit the farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracklist:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Walking from the hut to the piano<\/em> (11:55)<\/li>
  2. Rumbled at the gate, escaping to the barn<\/em> (7:13)<\/li>
  3. Emerging from the valley into a rainshower<\/em> (8:10)<\/li>
  4. The piano grits its teeth<\/em> (3:56)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Recorded at Old Chapel Farm, Wales, 2016-2018 by Dan & Bea Powell. Composed and produced by Dan Powell, Brighton, 2019. Mastering and cover by Miguel Carvalhais with photos by Dan Powell.\u00c2\u00a0Thank you to Fran, Kevin & Merlin Blockley, the Powell, Parker and Henderson families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Four Walks at Old Chapel<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is now available as a limited release tape, and for download or stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n