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A O A

by Heavy Cloud

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

    Download comes with a 12-page PDF booklet and original artwork for all four parts of A O A: Frantumaglia, Sonder, Always Blue and Aesthetics of Alienation.
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    Get all 38 Heavy Cloud releases available on Bandcamp and save 70%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Degrees of Slowness and Speed, collage triptych, hwenn, Poetics of Pain, If Every Day Was a Season, Zennor, Lost Wisdom, aerial, and 30 more. , and , .

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  • Limited Edition A O A Complete Box Set
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    5 x white top CDrs with themed sticker detailing and black diamond bottoms. Each disc is housed in an individually themed card sleeve, hand-stamped with artist and release name. Discs and keepsake collectable items are housed together in a stamped and ribbon-wrapped box set with a printed A O A project summary and content list.

    Full list of everything included:

    Part 1: Frantumaglia

    - Every edition of the sleeve is unique with a Frantumaglia collage print on the front and collaged fragments of text and ephemeral on the back.
    - A bespoke set of visual fragments – a collection of collaged vintage ephemeral (letters, maps, book pages, playing cards) on card, hand-stamped and tied together by cord.
    - A 5" x 5" matte square print featuring album artwork and tracklist.
    - An original collage retro print featuring vintage ephemeral.
    - 'Fragments' – an art card containing fragments of original fiction.
    - A unique Fujifilm instax mini photograph from a Cornish nature fragment series.

    Part 2: Sonder

    - Every edition of the sleeve is unique with a bespoke Sonder collage featuring vintage ephemeral (photographs, letters, book pages, maps, sheet music) on the front.
    - A retro print featuring release artwork and tracklist.

    Part 3: Always Blue

    - Every sleeve has a print of the Always Blue collaged release artwork.
    - A retro print featuring original Recycled Sky collage artwork.
    - A unique Fujifilm instax mini photograph of Cornish sky.

    Part 4: Aesthetics of Alienation

    - One sleeve has a print of the Aesthetics of Alienation collaged release artwork and contains tracks 1–12.
    - Second sleeve has a sketch print of a Cornish scene and contains the epilogue Ruins (Movements Through a Restless Night).
    - A full A O A tracklist printed on card.
    - 4 x original retro prints featuring themed artwork for each A O A release.

    View more photos on YouTube: youtu.be/n3wlKHUuQgk

    Includes unlimited streaming of A O A via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Limited Edition A O A Fragments Keepsake
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Contains everything from Part 1 (Frantumaglia) and Part 4 (Aesthetics of Alienation) of the Limited Edition A O A Complete Boxset [listed above].

    Includes unlimited streaming of A O A via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Limited Edition A O A PVC Print
    Poster/Print

    A limited edition of one – a 30cm x 30cm A O A : Aesthetics of Alienation artwork (mounted but frameless) PVC print with metal wall fitting

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Frantumaglia 02:22
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Erratum 06:14
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Sonar Debris 05:09
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Jumblegloss 02:59
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Disquiet 01:56
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Last Winter 02:17
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Always Blue 23:51
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about

A O A : Aesthetics of Alienation is a project comprised of three acts and an epilogue.

Exploring a mosaic of dreams, disquiet and dissociation, each part was created to stand alone as its own distinct release but to also flow as a larger body of work.

A O A has a narrative stillness, caught in the moment between a ‘before’ and ‘after’, a state of awake and asleep – a liminal space between action and abandon. As a selection of dream spaces, some dabbled with shadow, others blinking with sunspots and unreal light, A O A creates an aesthetic of alienation suggestive of human emotion and memory. Every track can be viewed as a single film frame reflecting elliptical moments of psychological anxiety – feelings of disquiet and dissociation that perhaps never fully resolve themselves.

The Limited Edition A O A Complete Box Set comes with four distinct physical keepsakes representing the three main parts of A O A, plus Aesthetics of Alienation, a version with all the tracks compiled. Each of the four keepsakes comes with a variety of original artwork, photography and collectables related to each part.

Part 1 – Frantumaglia [tracks 1–8]

“She said that inside her she had a frantumaglia, a jumble of fragments. The frantumaglia depressed her. Sometimes it made her dizzy, sometimes it made her mouth taste like iron. It was the word for a disquiet not otherwise definable, it referred to a miscellaneous crowd of things in her head, debris in a muddy water of the brain.” – Elena Ferrante

Video for Erratum: youtu.be/kQlV6DgZRq0

Part 2 – Sonder [9–11]

“The realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” – John Koenig

Part 3 – Always Blue [12]

“Our senses are always part of the process.” – Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Epilogue – Ruins (Movements Through a Restless Night) [13]

“Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams together into one continuous life.” – The Book of Disquiet

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“Soundscapes that encompass multiple sounds … are all combined together under a strange air of subconscious fog. These discrete pieces form a weird, vaguely comprehensible, and unclear journey that explores the reaches of the mind in ways that Freud or Jung could have only imagined being able to do.” - On the Fringes of Sound

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released December 2, 2021

A O A | 87 mins | A mosaic of dreams, disquiet and dissociation

Music and artwork by Heavy Cloud

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Heavy Cloud England, UK

Sounds | Art | Press

Inspired by memory and internal and external landscapes

Small runs of bespoke physical keepsakes

Collage-based artworks and textual exploration

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