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Alabama Field Series Part One

by ben link collins

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    The Alabama Field Series is a collection of compositions using the field recordings I make in Alabama, in an effort to both document and embody the life and culture of my home:

    wind in garden bucket, mom & dad’s front porch, mema’s garden, daddy bill’s pond, bugs in the pasture, front porch swing, tomatoe’s tuning forks, neighbor’s bass, synth, flock in bamboo, shade tree bands, big spring park, gravel road, rain at back deck, bankhead, fiddle off, wandering at fiddler’s convention, synth, *, sculpture pipes, frogs in bird sanctuary, train at home, neighbor’s bass, fiddler’s convention, my garden, synth, home, synth, cousins-in-law and their dogs, doyle’s chime, cabinet pots, cooking in canyonlands, home, camp pot, bankhead, attic springs, synth alone in the lab, vacant marble, deer deterrent, attic door, grayson and rascal, home, amanda and the rottweiler, lucy tail, reel to reel, home, charlie, water on grill lid, hole in the wall at fort gaines, drip on lowe mill canopy, box preacher, elevator, summer thunderstorm, shy ukulele, trump preacher, mechanical units, seminole drive, helicopter over magazine room at fort gaines with microphone in wall, rusted bolts on trailor, home, birds in soffit, anchor at dauphin island, water at sink,synth, home, june bugs on mom & dad’s porch, door at library, hole at fort gaines, sparrow nest, bath, home, cricket under deck, lounge band at lumberyard, back door, cicada, pasture gate, lounge band, gate on grass, synth, pasture bugs, synth.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of releasing the depressive valve, Midtown, Fictionalism, Elsewhere, Massive, Reflecting Shade, Alabama Field Series Part One, and The Paseo Recordings. , and , .

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1.
Porch and Pasture 12:57
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2.
Old Shade Tree (prepare a spire) 12:34
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3.
Simple Beast 13:03
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4.
It's Gonna Rain 08:40
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5.
With This Body 09:44
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"Normally I don't do much geographical research for my reviews, but now I did as part of these two new releases by Ben Link Collins. In his letter he writes that he spend the first twenty-five years of his life in Alabama, and when he turned thirty-five he returned to this state, and lives there again since three years. That was surely a good reason to take a look at the map and locate that particular state, as I honestly had no clue. It is partly also because of the music, I must say. There is something about these pieces here that made me think that indeed Alabama is a state where the sun shines and the crickets are pretty much present. But that's only one ingredient as the cover lists a very long list of sounds that may be heard on this release, which includes a lazy ukulele, box preacher, helicopter over magazine room at fort Gaines with microphone in wall and trump preacher. The list on the cover mentions quite a bunch of synths, not specified in brand names but I assume all different ones. So this is much more than taping some animals in an empty field. Collins created five pieces with all of these sounds and seemingly freely mixes these together into collages of sounds. I don't think there is much when comes to separating them. It's not 'one piece with just nature sounds', followed by 'city sound scape'; Collins throws everything together when he sees things fit, and that free approach works very well. It doesn't mean that all of these pieces are alike, far from it. Sometimes there are just a few sounds, slowly developing, like the rain drops of 'It's Gonna Rain' (not a cover of the Steve Reich piece) or the water sounds of 'With This Body'. The other three pieces are more complex, hybrid affairs of nature recordings, quite a lot of them in 'Porch And Pasture' and city sounds in 'Old Shade Tree (Prepare A Spire)' and 'Simple Beast'. Whatever Collins with his synthesizers I have no idea, but from what I gather it is not much. I thought was a great release from somebody who does what he think fits best." Frans de Waard - Vital Weekly

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released August 20, 2018

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Ben Link Collins Huntsville, Alabama

I’m a field recordist and architect living in Rochester, NY.
More info here: www.alabamafield.com

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