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アンビエント名作KLF「Chill Out」オマージュのジャケット・デザインがまず目を引く話題盤！300枚限定クリア・ヴァイナル仕様！
デヴォン海岸の人里離れたキャビンで、幼なじみのミュージシャン兼映像作家 Will Cookson と Tom Haverly が即興的に録音したアンビエント・アルバム。電気も携帯電波も届かない場所で、フィールド録音やスピーチ、古い録音からの断片を切り貼りし、40分弱のオーディオ・コラージュとして完成させた。
彼らが制作のヒントにしたのは、偶然見つけた The KLF の名盤 Chill Out。自由なプロセスでサウンドを再構築する姿勢に影響を受け、まるで The Bomb Squad がアンビエントだけを素材に作ったかのようなミックスを追求。
音楽的には、Brian Eno、Philip Glass、Virginia Astley、Andrew Weatherall など様々な影響を取り込みながら、単なる環境音楽に終始せず、心の旅のような深みを持つ。
路上の走行音、ささやき声、自然の響きが穏やかに溶け合い、過ぎゆく時間や友情、風景への想いがじっくりと表れる。サウンドトラックとしても、瞑想的な実験作としても機能する。
限定プレス・ヴァイナル。Clear 180gヴァージョンは300枚限定で、帯とインサート付き
A1. Swaledale to Blakeney Straits
B1. Laugharne Estuary to Welcombe Mouth
"This record and film are just lovely. You need this in your life. Moo-Moo!” Balearic Mike (Down To The Sea & Back)
"The album is a perfect companion to the KLF classic, utilising the British countryside as the setting, occasionally reminding you that Mother Nature is not to be messed with.” Strictly Kev (DJ Food)
"A beautiful ambient journey into the landscape, taking the listener from reality to dream state and back again. A mystical realm full of mysterious chanting, rattling trains and sounds from the very depths of the earth."
Lally MacBeth & Matthew Shaw (Stone Club)
Recorded in a remote cabin on the Devon coast, STILL OUT is an album-length collaboration between musician-filmmakers – and childhood friends – Will Cookson and Tom Haverly. A reflection on friendship, landscape and the passing of time, it inspired a road trip from North Yorkshire to North Devon they took together in the summer of 2024, and forms the soundtrack to a film of the same name which had its premiere screening as part of Stroud Film Festival in March 2025.
Like the film, STILL OUT is also an oblique homage to The KLF’s iconic 1990 album Chill Out, which the Gloucestershire-based pair revisited after it turned up unexpectedly a few years back in Tom’s dad’s record collection. Inspired to create their own recording using a similarly free-spirited process, Will and Tom relocated to the Devon coast in late summer 2023, splicing together a 40-minute mix from their personal archive of recordings and found sounds in a remote cabin with no electricity or mobile reception.
"It came together using cut-and-paste techniques, with ongoing shifts and tweaks,” says Will. “The final result was an audio collage that felt like something [legendary hip hop producers] The Bomb Squad might make - if ambient music was the only material in their sample library."
Using ‘ambient’ as a starting-point rather than an end in itself, they took inspiration from across the musical spectrum – classic-period Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Bill Evans, plus outliers such as 80s singer-songwriter Virginia Astley and the late DJ-producer Andrew Weatherall. The connections, though, are anything but obvious as the audio shifts seamlessly from field recordings and spoken-word interludes to mood pieces and snatches of vintage pop.
Edited and assembled using freely available open source programs, the source material was often radically altered using tools such as “PaulStretch”, a digital sound-morphing algorithm that allows users to stretch audio files to extreme lengths.
"When we found ourselves in a creative slump or unsure how to navigate a tricky part, we'd say, ‘Let's put some syrup on it and slow it down,’” says Tom. “That always helped us get back on track during late-night recording sessions at the cabin."
Part-soundtrack, part-meditative experiment, STILL OUT is intended as a reflection on the mental and emotional shift that occurs when stepping away from the routine of daily life – an album that forms a celebration of our ever-changing relationship to the world around us and the mystery of what it means to pass through time and space.
