5/15/2023 0 Comments When the sleeper awakes![]() "Chatwin's solo debut, following a string of releases as Talvihorros, is a richly melodic hybrid of ambient electronics, and organic instrumentation, seamlessly woven into a cinematic soundtrack of intense beauty." - UNCUT "A colossal record that conjures up dramatic vistas from the outset, The Sleeper Awakes is one of the most fully realised albums of its type released in the last few years." - DROWNED IN SOUND ![]() ![]() The pairing of older, traditional instruments with modern recording techniques and processes is something that I'm very interested in." I sourced a one hundred-year-old Dulcitone (a kind of portable piano that was made for a short period of time in Glasgow at the turn of the Twentieth Century) and used it extensively, making it sit with modern electronics and synthesis. Before the information and telecommunications revolution there was a beautiful yet weird, naivety about what the future might bring and it was this that I tried to tap into whilst making the record. "I wanted 'The Sleeper Awakes' to represent the idea of a future that has been and gone. ![]() Wells, 'The Sleeper Awakes' is Chatwin's first album to appear under his own name and follows last year's highly-lauded Talvihorros project 'Eaten Alive'. Written and recorded at Chatwin's home studio in Scotland. ![]()
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