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Rafael Anton Irisarri - The North Bend (10th Anniversary Edition) '2020

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The North Bend (10th Anniversary Edition)
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Album name The North Bend (10th Anniversary Edition)
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Date 2020
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Play time 40:05
Format / Bitrate 24 BIT Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
Media CD
Size 401 MB
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The North Bend is about the Pacific Northwest region of the USA, where I lived
at the time the album was made. Still, today I consider that region my spiritual
home, even though I am now living on the East Coast

I had met Lawrence English in Poland back in 2009 and he kindly invited me to
make a record for the label. I was a fan of his releases so this was really an
obvious thing for me to say “yes” to and a chance to create
something special. I had released a few EP’s & and LP under my name, all
influenced by the so-called “modern classical” ambient style
pioneered by the late great Jóhann Jóhannsson and minimalist composers
like Harold Budd and Arvo Pärt. The North Bend is the first work that dealt
with “place and explored a locality, the first in a series of recordings
all released with Room40.

Since this album came out, I’ve left the Pacific Northwest for another
location, New York state, which couldnt be a starker contrast from the life in
the PacNW. I had to start from scratch here in NY, as everything I owned until
age 36 was stolen the night before I left to drive to NY. It was both a curse
and a blessing. Not having the baggage & pitfalls of old ideas was wonderful,
but also losing all the recorded & written works I had was harrowing at the
time.

Remastering The North Bend seemed like a natural thing for me. Not so much as
revisionist history, but rather thinking how to make a record sound in a certain
way without being able to revisit any of the mixes. In other words, the creative
choices I made at the time (2010) are 100\% preserved, there wasn’t any
opportunity to revisit those, but rather make the record sound as good as I can
framed through hindsight and a decade of separation from the period it was
created. 

Tracklist:
1/5. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Passage (6:41)
2/5. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Blue Tomorrows (7:40)
3/5. Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Great Northern Sigh (5:10)
4/5. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Traces (10:24)
5/5. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Deception Falls (10:11)

Rafael Anton Irisarri


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