Zetland EP, by smallhaus

Zetland EP

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2.	Reflected 07:32	buy track
3.	Atlantic 06:49	buy track
4.	Zetland 13:23	buy track

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Zetland was born from a couple of abandoned projects. The first was around ambient remixes of previous releases and the second two extended improvisations made on electric guitar and gong. The first never happened but left me wanting to experiment more with a more electronic approach, exploring sound design rather than instrumentation. I almost released the improvisations but wasn't really happy with them. Elements of them appear on Zetland, heavily processed and manipulated.

Zetland is the most electronic release of mine so far - in addition to processed gong, guitar and radio sounds it features samples from the Polish Radio Experimental Studio[1], again treated and manipulated, alongside synths and sampled reverb tails.

I was keen for this not to become the inevitable "lockdown release". However, I realised when I came to name the tracks (something I always struggle with and leave until the last minute) that they were informed by a longing to be a long way away - surrounded by the sounds of nature rather than urban clatter which is quickly re-establishing itself after the relative peace of the early lockdown.

Initially this is being released digitally but may find a physical release in time.

[1] www.ableton.com/en/blog/sounds-polish-radio-experimental-studio/

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released May 22, 2020

David Little - electronics, guitar and gong
Mastered by Mark Beazley

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Lines of Silence / smallhaus Todmorden, UK

Lines of Silence is a project by David Little, focusing on improvised rural and esoteric psychedelia. LoS' music is based around ambient / gliss guitar, analog and digital synths and percussion.

Following the release of Nova in 2021, Smallhaus is on hiatus. ... more

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