It’s that time of year when a (no longer) young man’s thoughts turn naturally to the Sonic Structures and Enigmatic Episodes of Shipwreck Radio. Read the introduction to this series here.
JUNE 12 - SHIPWRECK RADIO VOLUME TWO
The opening welcoming and chimes are clean and crisp, then a mellow warbling tone sets in. Compared to the last two tracks I've reviewed (June 6 and June 9), June 12 is much more meditative. Tones build and crest like gentle waves behind the warbling, evoking a calm shore. They slowly swell, as if a tide was coming, minute by minute, nearly imperceptibly, until around six minutes when a metallic ringing emerges from the pulsating tones, to grow along with the warbling. Then around minute nine the ringing begins to warp, merging with an echoing and windy sound, like that of wind blowing over a pipe, if you manage to strip away the processing. The track fades away abruptly, bringing an end to the undulating littoral drones of this pensive and relaxing track.
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