Sunseastar: 'Fjaerland' Released

[Andy Wilson]

Finally, the long awaited Sunseastar album Fjaerland is now available:

• 1. Saccades (2:52)
• 2. Excellent Adversaries (11:59)
• 3. Adhumlas Ice Block (5:43)
• 4. Abzu #2 (5:38)
• 5. Season (2:40)
• 6. Fjaerland (29:57)
• 7. The Curve of a Needle (4:34)
• 8. New Portland Heights (7:55)

You can order copies from Dirter Promotions.

From the sleevenotes: "These recordings are the first result of several years of work. Crab and I had worked together in his group Bourbonese Qualk before starting sunseastar as a separate project with its own agenda. The idea was inspired by listening to Xenakis and thinking about a physicists’ joke about how uncanny it is that nature can solve differential equations instantaneously. The stochastic processes Xenakis uses to construct his music are all around us anyway. From this thought came the idea of taking a short cut around the hard work Xenakis had to do, and making musique concrete based directly on the sound of chaotic processes – the sound of chains rattling, of rain falling, of a field of sheep sounding their bells together, of the sea crashing on the shore, of insects moving through grass."

More Info: sunseastar.com