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Outline of Nature

by Twilight Sequence

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otto_hollis Impressive! This experience truly transported me to another realm, enveloping me in an (almost) visceral atmosphere.

The auditory excursions seamlessly intertwined with a profound sense of the ethereal, akin to a leisurely stroll through a car park or getting completely lost in a forest, it takes you there.

Last thing, I love that it scans as an album, it works as an album, and should be enjoyed as such.

Nice one Matt. :-) Favorite track: Rotating Seasons.
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Damian Smith I'm loving this soooo much, the title track is mesmerizing - listening on a Linn with speakers behind my head in the office and the deep creamy bass line and central melody keeps putting me in a trance - another superb album from the brilliant CiS label
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astronomerghost In love with this already, a beautiful album Favorite track: In The Rural Pattern.
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“Outline of Nature” started as an experiment in building a modular synthesizer system and ended up as a voltage controlled outpouring of love for the natural world. Sylvan-born and pastoral-powered, sap-blooded and lightning-charged, this album grew out of the damp florescent corners of the woods, each note and sound, a fractal extension of their seedling sounds.

It was nurtured into being at The Twilight Research Centre, a studio facility situated on the border of Somerset and Dorset. During Covid lockdown 1.0, I spent the outdoor hours we were permitted, wandering through the centre's surroundings, in the green lanes, woodlands and corridors of the wilds with their wary and flickering inhabitants, beneath the distant eyes of the soaring buzzards and the hulking red kites. I didn't expect it, but it was in the quiet, ferociously vibrant dens of nature, that I found a deeply profound connection with the natural world. It once again made sense to feel as much a part of the woods as the trees were; I felt like a natural entity in its habitat again, not something I'd properly felt since running wild through the gullies, dells and fells of the Midlands as a child. And I became afflicted with a powerful urge to build strange electronic sound systems that were organic, chaotic, fractal and in some way reflective of the awesome natural systems that surround us and surround the centre. I plugged in the modular, and went searching for signs of life.

Adding to this, just before the lockdowns, I stumbled across a three volume nature encyclopedia in a local charity shop, called “Outline of Nature in the British Isles” by Sir John Hammerton. The sub-heading reads “A Comprehensive Photo-Survey of the Varied Life of Field and Hedgerow, Moor and Mountain, River, Pond and Sea”, and it's a stunning collection of grainy photographs, beautiful illustrations and wondrously poetic writing, some of which inspired track titles and of course, the album title. I also rekindled my love of Ladybird nature books such as the “What to Look for in Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter” series, “Birds and How They Live” and “Butterflies, Moths and Other Insects”, rebuilding a small collection I had as a child and discovering numerous volumes new to me. Between the two literary sources, I had a rich well of imagery, writing and pastoral nostalgia to draw from; and coupled with the extended sessions of blissing out in my own heavily ecstatic awe descended on me in the sheer grandness of the wilderness, I set about enticing out of the woods an album of phosphorescent electrical music, abundant with comparatively microscopic, but persistent and wild life-forces.

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released August 18, 2023

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Twilight Sequence England, UK

Twilight Sequence — analogue modular synth music discovered in the face of awesome nature, studied and cared for at The Twilight Research Centre, Somerset.

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