Weather Anomalies

by Aperus

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Marie Wilhelmine Anders Wonderful album! Delicate balance of sounds, nowhere sharp. It carries you away. Take this work with you on an evening stroll into the beginning of the night. Favorite track: Somewhere Else, not here.

Lost Tribe Sound An ominous patchwork of weather- made mechanics that are as fascinating as they are unnerving. A live action Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs meets the lost Jóhann Jóhannsson score to Blade Runner 2049, set in the here and now. Though this real life climate apparatus may prove far more difficult to switch off, it still has brought us this captivating work!

Jan Roos Weather Anomalies is one of the absolute top ambient releases of 2021. This ebbs and flows effortlessly, it holds your interest all the way through; every track with its own clear identity. If you appreciate subtlety and attention to detail, this is for you. I've listened through the album three times as of writing this “mini-review” and I still want to explore more, it is an engaging journey. It´s been a while since I felt cyclical loop-based ambient offered something really interesting. Favorite track: Weather Anomalies.

williegarvin99 Just like that, Brian reaches new heights in his artistic development. This is deeply considered, thoughtful drone, thematically relevant and powerfully consistent. As a bonus the hand crafted, bespoke CD packaging is both a thing of beauty, and another example of the passion he brings to this work. This, and his back catalogue are well worth exploring, if ambient/drone is your thing (and if it’s not, it should be!)

Stuart McDonald love this album Brian. favourite track is currently collective memory

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Glass mastered CD limited to 100 copies. Packaged in a 4 1/2 x 6" sleeve. Album ships with eight photos chosen at random from a lot of fifteen with liner notes printed on heavy card stock.

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1.	Echoes of Thunderbirds 08:02	buy track
2.	Somewhere Else, not here 02:33	buy track
3.	Weather Anomalies 15:53	buy track
4.	Descending from Alto 03:28	buy track
5.	Abandoned Rituals 02:07	buy track
6.	Up in Flames 02:58	buy track
7.	Collective Memory 06:30	buy track
8.	Mirage or Vision 04:43	buy track
9.	Shadow of a Shadow 05:23	buy track

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In August of 2020, a lightning strike set the mountains near Santa Fe on fire for twenty-eight days, leaving the smell of smoke hanging in the air just outside our door. Against the backdrop of an already apocalyptic year, I wished I could escape to any time other than now.

With the forces of nature weighing on my mind, I decided to make an environmental album as a way to process what was happening around us. I returned to an older track, “Leaves, Waves” from “Tumbleweed”, for inspiration to see what would happen if I combined field recordings from that time period with current technology to create a new collection of songs.

In keeping with the spirit of those early days, I mixed everything live through an analog mixer. Results from these experiments came quickly and easily. “Echoes of Thunderbirds” could be considered “Leaves, Waves Part 2” while “Weather Anomalies” builds on a storm recorded in ‘03 with a pair of microphones pointed out into the open sky.

Going against my usual impulses, I decided not to over-analyze the material found here. Coming to terms with what we’ve been through, it feels appropriate to leave the sound of mics distorting in the rain as the central track reaches its end and fades out into silence.

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released September 5, 2021

APERUS: Soma Lyra-8, DSI OB6, Korg Trinity, Roland Juno 106, Software Sampler, Processed Guitar, Field Recordings, Shortwave Radio, Tapes, Loops, Effects

KARLA K McWILLIAMS: Flutes on “Somewhere Else, not here”, “Descending from Alto” and “Collective Memory”

GEOSCIENCE: Modular Synth on “Weather Anomalies” and “Shadow of a Shadow”

IVAN BLOCK: Guitar on “Abandoned Rituals” and “Up in Flames”

All songs written and recorded by Aperus at the Sound Observatory except “Up in Flames” by Aperus / Block. Audio processing on tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 by Stephen Matheiu. Album sequencing by Aperus. Levels and final edits with Jason Goodyear. Artwork and photography by Aperus.

Thank You to Karla, Ivan, Matthew, Jason, Stephen and Richard for their help during the making of this album.

Aperus: geophonicrecords.com, aperus.bandcamp.com
Geoscience: geoscience.bandcamp.com
Stephen Matheiu: schwebung.bandcamp.com
Jason Goodyear: prettylittlepaw.bandcamp.com

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Aperus Santa Fe, New Mexico

Aperus is an ambient, electronic musician and photographer living in the high desert of northern New Mexico. With each recording he filters natural and technological sound through a surf of electronics, noise and field recordings, creating large-scale, echoing soundscapes that hear the world as if from a vast distance. He is also known for his work with the ambient / electronic duo Remanence. ... more

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