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aerial

by Heavy Cloud

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    Includes bonus tracks: aerial in three movements
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  • Limited Edition CD Art Pack
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    • White top CDr with album art detailing and black diamond bottom
    • CD housed in a double-sided printed card wallet decorated with album artwork and liner notes on the reverse
    • 20x20cm square art print featuring the intertexts of aerial – a track breakdown of influences and inspirations
    • Double-sided colour A4 poster with original album themed artwork, words and poetry
    • Double-sided colour postcard with album inspired collage artworks
    • Album artwork sticker

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about

aerial uses the theme of flight as a metaphor to explore ideas of creative freedom, experiences of inner turbulence and overcoming self-doubt.

Loosely structured into three movements: take off, flight, and rest; aerial is a journey through changing environments that echo migratory thought patterns.

Beginning with a suite of tape noise, musique concrète and plunderphonics, the sky opens revealing a flight path that pivots to jazz collage and electronic soundscapes, as the mindflight passes through anxious interior questioning.

Processed field recordings and collected voices are carried on aerial’s wingspan. Some of these are caught and distorted in the buzz of the hive, or glide on wings through the hum of crosswinds.

From birds and bees, sky and wind, to feelings of flight or fight, fluttering inner monologues and outside influences, aerial is a tone poem about flight found in nature and the imagination.

It is an attempt to engage in half heard conversations with the self, but also with writers and artists who have used flight to express feelings about shifting states of mind, control and pathways of discovery.


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“I enjoyed the music a lot. Scratchy records, radio, TV, and other forms of found sound are used in these pieces, along with improvised guitar bits and very obscure field recordings. It arrives in an A4 plastic bag with a single sheet the same size, and some smaller, full-colour printed cards. That tops off a great release, and this is a first-class example how to release music.”

– Vital Weekly 1372

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released March 2, 2023

aerial | 12 tracks | 38 mins

Created with: tapes, soft synths, prepared samples, found sounds, field recordings, tabletop electric guitar, domestic objects, amplifier, radio, stylophone

Download includes the bonus tracks aerial mixed in three movements:
1. take off (12:21) [tracks 1–3]
2. flight (13:08) [tracks 4–8]
3. rest (12:04) [tracks 9–12]

Limited edition CD art pack includes: CD, art print, double-sided poster and postcard, and sticker

Music and artwork by Heavy Cloud

Proceeds will be donated to meassociation.org.uk

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