Morning Brings The Light

by Kieran Mahon

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The gaye device I love how the modular synth sounds slowly evolve from the field recordings,ebbing and flowing creating a dreamy haze of the summer garden. Favorite track: Morning Brings the Light (Full Length).

Michael J Bates I live in around the same area as Keiron and I had to do 'double takes' on some of those sounds because they are so local.
Wonderful trip. Favorite track: Pepe And The Rain.

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	1.	Morning Brings The Light: Overture 04:50
	2.	The Dark Blue Sky 02:02
	3.	Sea Mist 05:48
	4.	First Light 03:16
	5.	The Sun 05:23
	6.	Bugs Arise From Torpor 03:32
	7.	The Rose Bush 06:27
	8.	Light Through The Trees 05:43
	9.	Are 'Birds' Electric 07:28
	10.	You Are Here (PT. 1) 07:01
	11.	Pepe And The Rain 04:10
	12.	You Are Here (PT. 2) 07:01
	13.	Morning Brings the Light (Full Length) 57:51

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This album is about the micro world of a garden in a small coastal town. For two weeks either side of the 2021 summer solstice I routinely made field recordings of my garden from pre-dawn until the first stirrings of people beginning their days.

Ending up with hours of recordings, I then spent a long period listening and immersing myself in the environment - the ebb and flow, the subtle changes in atmosphere, the conversations between birds and insects, the wind, clouds, trees and the nearby sea and the perception of light.
This is a time most of us are not conscious of. As such, despite morning being the subject matter, from a human point of view it is an album as much about sleep as awakening. The music therefore is as based on both an imagined world and a literal one.

I recorded numerous modular synth pieces in response to the field recordings and then began to incorporate these back into the mix.
Conceptually I was inspired by Wendy Carlos’ Sonic Seasonings LP (1972), although the music in her case was made with a more dramatic quality. Whilst Carlos used very clear sign posts like the sound of rain, thunder, waves and wind in her work - playing out the narrative in almost cinematic way - was more intrigued by tiny details, sometimes stepping outside of real time to give several minutes focus on something that only lasted a second to two. I was also keen not to try and replicate sounds occurring naturally. I realised the folly of an elaborate synth patch being used to mimc the already generative and mesmeric sounds of simple bird calls or insect wings.

Musically I have had the eponymous Michael O’Shea album (1982) at the the forefront of my mind for sometime and owe it a debt of gratitude for some of the conclusions I have drawn, similarly I have been inspired by John James - from who’s 1970 LP I have borrowed my title.

Kieran Mahon, April '22

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released May 27, 2022

Composed and Recorded by Kieran Mahon.
Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw.
Paintings by Cula Bula Art
Design and layout by Phil Heeks.

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Kieran returns to Castles in Space with a longform piece celebrating the beauty of a Summer garden in a small coastal town

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