Paths, by Tewksbury

Paths

by Tewksbury

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Scott song titles are usually important to me, and i bought this release primarily for track #9. but i am pleased to say the combination of piano and electronic sounds across the album offers an interesting listen (and anything with bass clarinet gets a nod also). Favorite track: Maybe Things Are Not So Bad, After All.

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The continuous, seamless mix of Paths’ songs on 180-gram multi-coloured vinyl, pressed from 100% reclaimed vinyl by Kaneshii press in Canada (about as environmentally friendly as vinyl can get), inside a heavyweight full-colour jacket.

This is a unique, hand-pressed reclaimed item, so colours may vary. Most are some variation of green and brown.

Includes unlimited streaming of Paths via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Limited Edition Cassette
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The continous, seamless mix of Paths' songs on cassette, pressed on green sparkle cassette with full-colour j-card and label.

Includes unlimited streaming of Paths via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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	1.	Boreal 04:53
	2.	The Great Auk 05:46
	3.	Sitaantaago Elegy 02:38
	4.	Viscosity 07:42
	5.	Hardangerfjord 05:56
	6.	Habitats 03:56
	7.	The Incomprehensible 01:54
	8.	Hundreds Thousands Millions 05:09
	9.	Maybe Things Are Not So Bad, After All 02:32
	10.	Paths (Seamless Full Album Mix) 37:48

about

Paths is a musical work of original compositions for piano and electronic instruments, which turns to look directly at climate change, trying to find hope in these dark times for our planet. It is inspired by travels to glaciers, tundra, and ice-covered lands, including Norway, Newfoundland, Alaska, Sweden, Ontario, and elsewhere.

In these places, I was witnessing such impossible beauty in the ice, the stillness of objective time, the slow beauty of nature. These were places so remarkable that I could barely believe they existed.

Yet there was a sadness hovering over each of these experiences, that these things will soon be lost. And maybe we, as a species, will be lost, too. I wanted to commemorate this singular feeling of both unbearable beauty and unbearable loss in this album.

In this record, there are my own field recordings of the waves hitting the Newfoundland shore while I was watching icebergs float by, or of my daughter's footsteps as we hiked a mountain in Alaska, or of moments of quiet nature on a Norwegian glacier.

But above all, I wanted to try to make beautiful moments of stillness and peace in the face of looming disaster. It’s not easy to look at where we are with climate change and environmental destruction and be hopeful—and I’m pretty pessimistic about our odds—but I guess I just wanted to make something beautiful. I don’t really know if art can save us, but it seems especially important right now.

credits

released June 1, 2021

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All music written, performed, and mixed by Douglas Tewksbury.

Except for Habitats, written and performed by Douglas Tewksbury and Christina Baade, who played the bass clarinet.

Mastered by Steve Pitkin at Modest Heights Mastering.

Thanks, and love, to Christine, Luna, and Hava Quail.

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This recording is released in 2021 by Geertruida under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You are free to share, adapt, or remix, as long as you provide attribution and distribute your work under the same licence as the original.

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Tewksbury Hamilton, Ontario

Douglas Tewksbury is an ambient and electronic musician, field recordist, and sound artist from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

'Floes: Volumes I-IV', the new 4x collection of slow, long-form ambient works for Moog One and analog tape loops, out 21 March 2024. ... more

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Floes: Volumes I-IV

Mar 2024
Brutes Remixed

Mar 2023
Brutes

Jul 2022
Paths

Jun 2021

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