a listener’s response to urban walking, by Andrew Greaves

a listener’s response to urban walking

by Andrew Greaves

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1.	Ampelmann Walks (featuring Pete Dixon) 07:28	buy track
2.	Geogengarten 04:00	buy track
3.	Courtége (featuring Ron Caines) 03:11	buy track
4.	Ampelmann Waits (featuring Pete Dixon) 06:05	buy track
5.	A Round Trip (Win & Zurück) 21:00	buy track

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This album was inspired by a short visit to the Bauhaus town of Dessau, Germany in the spring of 2023. This initial visit was to research and explore options for combining the theories and principles of design, architecture and colour within a music and sound project. However, a further visit is planned and this project can wait a little longer.

During my time in Dessau I spent a long day, on a round trip walking around the town and out to its suburbs. I visited the various Bauhaus sites; the masters houses, student workshops, public buildings and housing estates. I became increasingly interested in how, when walking, the environments morph into each other; shopping quarters become residential, then drift into light industrial areas, into parklands and then out into the suburbs. With this shift in environment comes a change of colours and sound quality. I sensed these elements influencing my mood.

Ampelmann translates as Little Light Traffic Man; the name given to the walking figure on the lighted pedestrian crossing signs in the former East Germany. This alternately green or red character, with his little cap, has a charming, slightly folksy, gnomish presence. I imagined seeing him step down from his pole to take hikes around town; I imagined being him.

The Geogengarten is leafy oasis of old Europe in an otherwise modernist town. Here you can find birdsong, the sounds of distant traffic and pathways to arcadian structures.

Courtége is one of the many saxophone pieces by Ron Caines that I have recorded in recent years. Ron is a genuine innovator and a long time influence on my work. His understanding of harmony is outstanding and provides great scope for me to frame his saxophone with textures and minimalist figures. Hopefully more pieces from this collaboration will follow.

For this project I have favoured, a warm, hazy, fragile and slightly wobbly sound world, which I hope is both organic and keeps things on a human scale.

I’d like to thank Ron, Pete, Gill, Dan, Jacquie, Gus, Tony and Geoff for their creativity, feedback and support in completing this project.

Andrew Greaves April 2024

credits

released January 5, 2024

All tracks written by Andrew Greaves except Courtége written by Ron Caines, arranged by Andrew Greaves.

Recorded, Edited, Mixed and Produced by Andrew Greaves between October 2023 and February 2024 in and around Brighton and Hove, England.

Mastering by Dan Powell.

Cover artwork by Andrew Greaves

On this album Andrew Greaves played a Korg Electribe EA1 groovebox for the sequencer parts and 2 Korg Monologue synthesisers for realtime sequencing and lead parts. Andrew also played hand percussion, Cajon and made field recordings

Pete Dixon provided his guitar textures for Ampelmann Walks and Ampelmann Waits. Ron Caines played Alto Sax on his own piece, Courtége.

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