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Verdant Machine

by Aquarelle

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Beautiful limited edition vinyl version of Verdant Machine

    Includes unlimited streaming of Verdant Machine via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Ballad 17:29
2.
Lead Singer 18:59

about

Verdant Machine is Ryan Potts' latest album as Aquarelle since 2017's Leave Corners, and it showcases his interest in using a narrow set of tools to create a wider soundscape than in the past. With a focus on fewer tools but longer duration, Potts has created two side-long pieces that utilize the full length of the vinyl format to play with perception and expectation.

The album marks a departure from Potts' previous work, as he stripped back his approach and did away with his standby instrument, the guitar. "For the first time in many years I mostly just played with the machines and electronics in my basement with no real thought of what the material would become"

The pieces, having more room to breathe, sound like quintessential Aquarelle layers of layers but present as both lighter and much heavier or at least more dynamic than ever before. The edges are being explored. "The whole album is quite layered because I can't help myself, but it's really just sine waves, simple string loops, and feedback (from many different sources -- electronics, tube amps, mixers, digital generators, baby monitors)."

Unquestionably this is the most minimal and outright "noisy" album in the Aquarelle discography. It is also the most assured and methodical. A slow deep breath through a thousand wires.

credits

released May 26, 2023

Recorded, Arranged and Mixed by Ryan Potts
Mastered by Andrew Weathers
Photography by Ka_Nai
Layout by Bob Tiede

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Aquarelle Minneapolis, Minnesota

With the Aquarelle moniker, Ryan Potts explores a cross-section of feedback-generated experiments, acoustic instrumentation and layered sine waves. These sounds are folded together with meticulous editing to form pieces that have equal interest in stasis and movement, clarity and obscurity. ... more

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