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Newton, Jamie: Driving Nails Into Fog (3acreTract(s))

Jamie Newton works with sound using guitar, keyboards, field recordings, processing, and Kyoto croquet, here in a contemplative set of works merging drone and thick noise with indistinct rhythms and layers of concrete sounds.
 

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Jamie Newton-guitar, keyboards, field recordings, processing, Kyoto croquet


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UPC: 888295087643

Label: 3acreTract(s)
Catalog ID: 3aT 2014.001
Squidco Product Code: 20602

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2014
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded in April and May , 2013, by Jamie Newton.

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"Meditative feedback and sound forms carved from processed guitar, keyboards, field recordings and Kyoto croquet. Noise. Plate tectonics."-3acreTracts(s)


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1. Proximity Burn 5:58

2. Juban (Kizu To Nara) 6:37

3. Running Through The Islands 16:26

4. Tuesday Two 4:38

5. Driving Nails Into Fog 11:37

6. Idylling 7:12

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Electro-Acoustic
Electro-Acoustic Improv
Improvised Music
Sound, Noise, &c.
Guitarists, &c.
Piano & Keyboards
Solo Artist Recordings

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