Blue Sleep, by Lydian Dunbar

Blue Sleep

by Lydian Dunbar

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1.	Dust Motor Reduction 03:16	buy track
2.	Blue Sleep 05:00	buy track
3.	A Whale Is Dreaming Me 05:38	buy track
4.	Beach Shelter 03:16	buy track
5.	Sky Hum 05:35	buy track
6.	Dust Motor Full 05:46	buy track
7.	Soft Fingers Of The Monster 05:40	buy track
8.	Ballina Breakwall 06:12	buy track

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From Lydian Dunbar
The colour blue is very restful for me. I can look up at the sky or out at the ocean and feel calm. It holds me, and I feel like I can breathe it in very deeply.

One day not long ago after a surf in Byron Bay, me and my good friend Randy found a shelter someone had made on the beach from sticks and branches. It looked like a hut, a shelter from the heat of the sun. We crawled into the shelter and laid down. I looked up through the sticks to see the blue sky and soon I was asleep.

I wanted to make an ambient album about that day. I have lots of electronic instruments that I use with Tralala Blip but with my solo project I wanted to use my beloved harmonicas. They are an instrument that is very special to me.

Randy and I went back to the studio with my harmonicas, a small granular modular system, my voice and not much else. We went out a few times to collect sounds from the beach and surrounding area using a zoom recorder and an EMF recorder made by Soma Labs.

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released April 29, 2022

Lydian Dunbar: harmonicas, melodica, field recorder, Soma Ether EMF recorder, TC-Helicon Voicelive Touch, two granular samplers in a small modular system, Soma Lyra-8.

Produced by Lawrence English at Negative Space.

Special thanks to Randolf Reimann for studio support.

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