Distant Objects in Soft Focus, by theAdelaidean

Distant Objects in Soft Focus

by theAdelaidean

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Gary Zaepfel This release is superb. Beautiful and calming.

Volker Lankow Amazing For a really more than fair price you get a fantastic ambient album. Thanks a lot, Sean, for this amazing musical journey.

The Vast Wilds This is superb work. Track after track of pristine ambient sounds. These works emanate a beautiful detached loneliness. I just love it and don't want it to end. Favorite track: Day Dreamt.

Dave Aftandilian Have you ever had the feeling that the more you concentrate on a specific object along the distant horizon, the harder it is to see clearly? Yet when you shift your gaze just slightly, often unconsciously, the object suddenly pops into sharp focus? Listening to these shimmering, warm, yet elusive ambient compositions feels like that.

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1.	Old Water 07:09	buy track
2.	Cryptid Chorus 05:44	buy track
3.	Dawn Fades 05:03	buy track
4.	Hide Awake 05:47	buy track
5.	Day Dreamt 12:07	buy track
6.	Melted Memory 04:36	buy track
7.	Gravitic Lens 14:00	buy track
8.	Notion Blur 09:10	buy track
9.	Uncanny Instants 05:12	buy track
10.	Distant Objects in Soft Focus 44:25	buy track
11.	Echo Trails 06:06	buy track

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Genres: Ambient Electronic, Atmospheric, Drone, Electronic, LoFi

Suspended in slow stasis with frequent pauses for reflection, DISTANT OBJECTS IN SOFT FOCUS is theAdelaidean’s 13th Projekt release of fractalized ambient electronics. Inspired by recent experiences composing for the stage and screen, theAdelaidean (AKA bestselling Australian author Sean Williams) weaves an intricate series of conceptual narratives into an album of densely layered sound. DOiSF imagines the world as a series of half-forgotten moments by means of impressionistic pad washes, looping field recordings, fragmented melodies, and wordless voices. Each complex arrangement leads the listener through forests of lo-fi textures and subconscious resonances of stillness and personal reflection.

Sean says, “About the 'Distant Objects' in my title: my albums are frequently about connecting with things far-off. Whether I’m composing with collaborators who live in different parts of the world, such as Steve Roach and Mirko of Deepspace [PARALLELS, ANTIGRAVITY], about places like Antarctica [HYPERAUREA], or using old field recordings I made when I was young [ISOLATION], there’s an element held at a remove that I’m trying to engage with. Growing up in Australia, a place so far from the rest of the world, will encourage that. I feel there’s a lot of yearning in my music for something just out of reach.

"Watching my collaborators in film and other media explore focus, movement, Mise-en-scène and other techniques, in order to draw the audience’s attention along very precise lines, has been such an inspiration. In music, I don’t have those literal tools at my disposal, but the musical tools available today are incredibly powerful, for example software enabling complex spatialisation. In one of my roles as project lead of Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts’ 32-channel ambisonic studio in Adelaide [The Cube] I take it as a creative challenge to incorporate these new compositional tools into my music. On these tracks, sounds drift in from far off and retreat back into the distance with control I never had before, suggestive of memories half-captured of times long past.”

DISTANT OBJECTS IN SOFT FOCUS is a mercurial release within theAdelaidean’s growing catalogue of albums, moving restlessly and with confidence between elegant evolutions and across fractal boundaries.

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released October 25, 2024

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