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The Notional Pastures Of Imaginary Softwoods

by Imaginary Softwoods

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Ryan Ander-Evans
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Ryan Ander-Evans this album is very special to me, really looking forward to receiving the vinyl Favorite track: Daylight Cascades For The Living.
A Strangely Isolated Place
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A Strangely Isolated Place Oh what a showstopper this one is! Especially this track. Favorite track: Diagram Of The Universe.
TheSlowMusicMovement
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TheSlowMusicMovement Tiring of humanity's lemming like rush to extinction, Imaginary Softwoods & Field Records open a shimmering portal to a utopian parallel dimension so those that know can escape to it's equatorial warmth, embrace rather than exploit its verdant, life supporting ecosystem - perfectly honed over aeons, & embark on an idealistic New Age. What to do? Run, or stay & fight?
Brad Rose
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Brad Rose Featured on the February 24th episode of Foxy Digitalis Daily: foxydigitalis.zone/2023/02/24/foxy-digitalis-daily-2-24-23-the-notional-pastures-of-imaginary-softwoods/ Favorite track: Diagram Of The Universe.
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Time bends for Imaginary Softwoods, the solo guise of producer, songwriter, and synthesist John Elliott. Though he’s working on new recordings daily, Elliott’s process for the construction of his albums moves at a much different interval, stretching out over months of considerate listening, revision, and waiting patiently for the right combinations and clashes of elemental forces to materialise on their own. The Notional Pastures of Imaginary Softwoods continues Elliott’s practice of zeroing in on what he wants to say with an album over the course of countless sessions that span multiple years, this time paying even more attention to locating the emotional through-line that connects the various pieces.

The eleven-piece album vibrates at a low, unbroken cycle through all of its articulations. The bubbling neon dots of “North of Roswell,” double vision stumble of “Mr. Big Volume,” underwater music box trickle of “Portable Void,” and clear headed Arctic daybreak drones of “Diagram of the Universe” are all linked by a gentle, fluid hum. The brief moments of anxiety and long stretches of calm both feed back into the same center of gravity, becoming conjoined reflections of one another as they cycle through.

After bending to find this specific universal frequency, time evaporates altogether, and longer zones like the glimmering “Almond Branch” become indistinguishable from Elliott’s signature miniatures, some of which stick around for less than a minute. The Notional Pastures of Imaginary Softwoods is a document of the universe as we comprehend it, designed to vanish as soon as it is felt.

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released February 17, 2023

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at Enisslab, Rome.
Published by Field Records.

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