Music for Psychiatric Wards and Fluid Structures
by ADRA
williamtrippi
williamtrippi
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Graeme
Graeme
I judged a book by it's cover and was more right than I had any right to be.
Favorite track: Untitled (Organ).
Paulie C
Paulie C
A warm, generous album which soothes and delights in equal measure.
Favorite track: Untitled (Baritone Guitar and Mbira).
Poe Mauldin
a slow finesse
rhos
Neil Ball
cted
Phil Barden
Marty C
listenswell
Harry Hussey
SENSE
lsalzer
pondwatcher
kingeule
Nujumi
captainesse
misterheady
team schwaggerty
mattgraupman
Sue Auty
baxtron3000
Peter Hickey
kyatos
Loizos Olympios
gaburu
Jiang Anru
Kevin Goff
Jürgen
Simon Niklasson
Jon Iñaki
tomwaitsforno1
InsectInPixel
matthew swain
Charlie Parr
terry4
Matt Banash
rufdog
tamathalovesmusic
Hamboleyn
Toblermone
Stephen Kerrison
Thom Kennon
xeyedndpainless
joypog
Fox Malder
Jonathan Ashley alias Jack Burn
Mothy
James Wvr
danjon76
lionvalley
Jonas Halsall
backless
retrowavekenny
huejahfink
Matt Dimmock
Simon Burns
neilnixon
Harsh Agarwal
Peter Trenholm
Christopher Whitby
Stephen Hicks
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about
A compilation of recordings inspired by my experiences as a creative practitioner performing ambient music in psychiatric wards across Yorkshire in 2023, and soundtracks to a film about an embedded arts organisation in East Lancashire. - Andy Abbott
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When Abbott entered the psychiatric ward, he did so with an open mind.
“I was going in there with loop pedals and little handmade kalimbas and acoustic instruments,” he recalls. “From these experiences I then designed, with input from the staff and service users, an ‘Ambient Music Board’. It’s a bit like a musical fidget board that combines various instruments including thumb piano, guitar and harp strings, chimes and other tactile parts like rubber bands and springs.”
So for three months, once a week, Abbott would enter these wards and play music for six hours.
“If it was a flat day, I may decide to do something a bit more upbeat or if it was a very chaotic day or people were agitated, I would play ambient music to calm things down,” he says. “I was playing into that space and trying to respond to the physical and social context and provide something that was levelling.”
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"a beautifully structured hour of ambient music; reflective and calm with endlessly unravelling layers."
- Uncut
“...a genre-defying album that is as fluid as its title would suggest. From the patter of the steel pan to the whirr and drone of the organ, what unfurls in between these two harbours is a deeply searching travelogue; at times water-like, at others light-filled as if in some kind of morning glow.”
- The Quietus
'a remarkably affecting series of tracks that vary quite wildly in terms of mood and instrumentation ... I could listen to it for weeks.'
- Norman Records
"the album is reminiscent of composers like La Monte Young, Hans Otto or Arco Part, where the approach is to pick out a nuanced emotion and explore it fully. That said, there is also adventure in the album’s minimalism. It feels much like a meandering, richly-adorned Greg Foat composition, split out into its constituent parts, each given the chance to live and breathe independently of one another.”
- Dirty Sunbeams
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When Abbott entered the psychiatric ward, he did so with an open mind.
“I was going in there with loop pedals and little handmade kalimbas and acoustic instruments,” he recalls. “From these experiences I then designed, with input from the staff and service users, an ‘Ambient Music Board’. It’s a bit like a musical fidget board that combines various instruments including thumb piano, guitar and harp strings, chimes and other tactile parts like rubber bands and springs.”
So for three months, once a week, Abbott would enter these wards and play music for six hours.
“If it was a flat day, I may decide to do something a bit more upbeat or if it was a very chaotic day or people were agitated, I would play ambient music to calm things down,” he says. “I was playing into that space and trying to respond to the physical and social context and provide something that was levelling.”
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"a beautifully structured hour of ambient music; reflective and calm with endlessly unravelling layers."
- Uncut
“...a genre-defying album that is as fluid as its title would suggest. From the patter of the steel pan to the whirr and drone of the organ, what unfurls in between these two harbours is a deeply searching travelogue; at times water-like, at others light-filled as if in some kind of morning glow.”
- The Quietus
'a remarkably affecting series of tracks that vary quite wildly in terms of mood and instrumentation ... I could listen to it for weeks.'
- Norman Records
"the album is reminiscent of composers like La Monte Young, Hans Otto or Arco Part, where the approach is to pick out a nuanced emotion and explore it fully. That said, there is also adventure in the album’s minimalism. It feels much like a meandering, richly-adorned Greg Foat composition, split out into its constituent parts, each given the chance to live and breathe independently of one another.”
- Dirty Sunbeams
credits
released November 1, 2024
Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 recorded by Joe Osborne at The Garage, Brierfield.
Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7 recorded by Mark Simms at Electron Studios, Sunderland.
Mastered by Joe Osborne.
Ambient Music Board fabricated by Sam McLoughlin.
Thanks to Everybody Arts, Creative Minds and In-Situ.
Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 recorded by Joe Osborne at The Garage, Brierfield.
Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7 recorded by Mark Simms at Electron Studios, Sunderland.
Mastered by Joe Osborne.
Ambient Music Board fabricated by Sam McLoughlin.
Thanks to Everybody Arts, Creative Minds and In-Situ.
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Andrew DR Abbott / ADRA Halifax, UK
Andy Abbott is an artist, musician and writer who lives in West Yorkshire, UK.
His recent output as ‘Andrew DR Abbott’
centres on instrumental compositions for 8-string baritone acoustic guitar. 'ADRA' is the name under which he releases improvised or more experimental work.
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