The Sheltering Ranges, by Sonya Waters

The Sheltering Ranges

by Sonya Waters

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1.	Spring Tide 03:54	buy track
2.	Eddies 03:37	buy track
3.	Evaporation 03:02	buy track
4.	The Straights 02:30	buy track
5.	Dreamland Grasses 04:38	buy track
6.	Anticyclone 04:49	buy track
7.	The Sheltering Ranges 05:22	buy track
8.	First Frost 02:31	buy track
9.	Evaporation (Dugal McKinnon Remix) 04:30	buy track
10.	Spring Tide (Ludus Remix) 03:48	buy track
11.	Dreamland Grasses (Laura Luna Castillo Remix) 05:13	buy track
12.	First Frost (Rami Moscovich Remix) 03:43	buy track
13.	Eddies (Jet Jaguar Remix) 04:23	buy track
14.	The Straights (Maryana Klochko Remix) 01:55	buy track

about

The Sheltering Ranges is a set of ambient pieces. It combines loops, synths, pianos, phonetic poetry, and wind turbine field recordings. The pieces explore a non-diatonic world while maintaining a melodic sensibility and a glimmering of songs. This album was made as part of a sonic arts project at NZMS. It is about Wellington’s astonishing weather.

"I liked to play the synths while looking out the window. Across the valley high on the hill the wind turbine turned briskly, or it sat completely still, its fins jutting out into the sky. Sometimes the sound of whirring would drift across to the house. Up close the turbine hummed and swished in a constant rhythm. Other turbines emitted creaks, groans, whooshes, and delicate resonant frequencies. The field recordings became a central part of the music.

Ben Van Howe at Cudighi Records suggested extending the project by asking other composers to create remixes. The remix tracks were made by six different artists from different places in the world during lockdown. They sound alluring, imaginative, provocative, and completely unique."
- Sonya Waters

"Sonya Waters translates her wind turbine iced, New Zealand valley vista into a swirling, lava lamp hued, New Agetronic, fluffy cloud of an LP."
- The Slow Music Movement

"Waters uses loops, synths, pianos, phonetic poetry, and wind turbine field recordings to produce a very distinct and calming sort of pop."
- Tom Haugen, The Daily Vault

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released March 5, 2021

Thank you Dugal McKinnon, Ludus, Laura Luna Castillo, Rami Moscovich, Jet Jaguar, Maryana Klochko, John Heighes, and Ben Howe.

Mastered by Thomas Voyce

Watercolor by Jacqui Cotter

Design by Stephen McCarthy

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