Soundtracks For Weaving is a 5-part suite of music, originally designed to be the soundtrack for some Tapestry students to play while weaving back in the mid 1980's, Ian created the suite using a Roland SH-101 in conjunction with a Roland TR-707 that has now been digitized from the original 4 track cassettes, before being sensitively mixed without adding any modern technology. Ian was part of Edinburgh's Dream pop band Beautiful Pea Green Boat who used part of the opening track The Vase in their tune of the same name.
The album opens with Part 1: The Vase that uses a repetitive percussion pattern like the machines are clattering away, then adding synths to give a sense of trying to block out the never-ending machine noise with something less grating, while evoking the patterns needed to create that woven vase. The tonal shifts bring beauty with a Cluster like evolving world created by the synths, battling against the ever-present machines weaving away. Hopefully within the synth patterns inspiration arrives to decorate The Vase they have created.
Part 2 Wee Red opens with the drum machine sounding like it's mis firing slightly, while the glacial synths start to poke through the over busy drum pattern, almost like they had scored some red seal and had rolled a Wee Red joint and needed to chill out together, the deep bassline starts poking through.
The Horse gallops away across the speakers with the snare backbeat and synths sounding like they want to jump a few fences, allowing the weavers to come up with a horse caught mid gallop across the Highlands, while utilizing a classical piano motif showing the restless nature of this steed, who after 10 minutes or so of solid galloping seems to slow down a bit, musically taking a few twists and turns before the pace picks back up, until close to the end of this thirteen minute journey, when he slows down and goes into the stables.
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The Etruscans knew a thing or two about weaving intricate tapestries like this tune is, percussive machines rattle away, while slivers of beauty are slowly created by the ever soaring and evolving synths that seem to get faster and faster, like they have lost all control and are speeding like crazy.
The album closes with Flight that has a Harald Faltermayer sensibility, but with fusillades of drums coming in and out of the mix, before the shimmering washes lift off, your weaving leaves patters of swallows and bluebirds in Flight over a sparse background.
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