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ást - released by Time Released Sound (US)

by The Child of A Creek/ Fallen

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  • “ást” Standard Handworked Digipack Version - Black Modified Digipacks
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    Time Released Sound (US) has created 40 copies for this album version. Here are the copies I've received from the label.

    This is the hand-worked digipak version of the release. Each copy has a unique artowork and inserts with album info.

    Here's my new 8track ambient album entitled "ást" (this word means -love- in icelandic) I Composed, Arranged and Recorded with Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Guitars, Field Recordings (people, traffic, television, radios) and Found Objects (paper, bottles) between October and December 2017.

    Mixed and Mastered by FALLEN in December 2017.

    Artwork and Packaging by Colin Herrick (Time Released Sound).

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    HOW “ást” WAS CONCEIVED AND RECORDED
    “ást” means Love in icelandic and this record has been composed and recorded after 1 year of domestic partnership with my lady and this is the 1st time for me going through this, cause I never had the chance to live together with the previous ladies of my life. So, I can say that “ást” tries to tell how this year has changed me as a person and as a man, trying to focus the attention on little things to which we generally do not pay attention to, because we take ‘em for granted, but in my opinion (and this is usual to me, I don’t have the habit to take things for granted) they are absolutely important.

    “ást” is everyday life and smiles, cries, fights at night.
    “ást” is heartbeating, “ást” is to breathe.

    I composed and recorded the album between October and December 2017 and I remember I used to feel serene during the recording sessions; maybe it was the first time in my life as a musician (composer and folksinger as well) in which I felt really serene while composing an album.. a very different one from what I’ve done with music up to 2017. So, I used to feel relaxed, I used to feel an inner peace in my heart, even though I was living (and still I am) a period of very great change.

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    -REVIEWS UP TODAY-

    Review by Marco Zordan
    IndiePerCui (IT)
    August, 9th 2018

    Double review for 2 records released at different times, but that somehow create a perpetually constant intertwining between them in a common association that sees Fallen, a quite interesting experimental project, keep going with the rise and fall towards increasingly unexplored borders in territories at the limit and able to weave the plots of a rich complex picture, in references to the brain architecture within our ego. If “Ast” admires the city as an inner spectator, capturing the nuances of chaos and grouping it into a music that is distantly lost to the eye but which immediately wins, “Glimpses” draws a necessary parallelisms with the surrounding nature, opening the way to desolate lands, but full of beauty and energy, recovering primitive and ethereal environmental sounds, for a record that indissolubly joins the previous one while maintaining a certain fundamental originality and a substantial diversity in the passage of sounds and creating an alchemic, fantastic and an almost supernatural atmosphere. The ability of our experimenter is to assemble, as a good mind craftsman, the inside and the outside of everything which surrounds us. These two excellent albums are the example of what I am saying; two concentric albums able in perpetuating the constant need to give a continuous sense to a path that does not seek half measures, but rather levels the gears, oiled by time, of a single large love for art in the round.

    Review by Aaron Giazzon
    Musica Difficile Italiana (IT)
    Aug 2nd, 2018
    Today we move to the FALLEN's ambient territory, a new project by the same visionary composer/songwriter The Child Of a Creek. Fallen, unlike the The Child of A Creek's visionary folk, is immediately structured with a clear and defined ambient proposal. Bracaloni, a capable musician with a long experience, is committed to dyeing rarefied atmospheres of undeniable beauty. It seems to get in those old houses, full of stories and objects and dust, smelling melancholy. The refinement of sounds and combinations is tangible and listening becomes an intense and a stimulating experience. Music and sounds are the masters here. A very good choice, this to do not give too much space to words as we usually do.

    Review by Drifting Almost Falling (UK)
    July 2nd, 2018

    “ást” means Love in icelandic and this record has been composed and recorded after Fallen aka Lorenzo Bracaloni who also records under the name Child of a Creek. The inspiration for this release is domestic bliss with his partner. “ást” tries to tell how this year has changed me as a person and as a man,trying to focus the attention on little things to which we generally do not pay attention to, because we take ‘em for granted, but in my opinion (and this is usual to me, I don’t have the habit to take things for granted) they are absolutely important.“ást” is everyday life and smiles, cries, fights at night. “ást” is heart beating, “ást” is to breathe. I composed and recorded the album between October and December 2017 and I remember I used to feel serene during the recording sessions; maybe it was the first time in my life as a musician (composer and folksinger as well) in which I felt really serene while composing an album..” “ást I” slowly making their way through silence are drones of a bright quality which move ever so slightly from their path. A bed of field recordings featuring water, insect and people talking signals the arrival of minimal piano and feedback like drones that scream across the soundscape. The music flows evenly with a replaces feel about it, letting the parts wind their way around in loops as they cut in and out. The even tones and sounds are a nice introduction to the album. “ást II” a more electronic feel is noted with the throbbing sounds and the granular noises that join the long linear drone and piano. There is a sense of something ominous especially when post industrial – like sounds cut across. The piano has a very slight melancholic tone to it and adds as a center point, even though the drone and granular sounds are the only permanent constants. I am not sure where this fits into the theme of love and contentment though, as it feels quite moody. “ást III” returns us to more melodic textures with the light airy drone that flows outwards. Flickering almost glitchy noises enter the picture with a reverb attached to them taking us out of out comfort zone we were placed in by the drone. Darker metallic noises join in as do modified guitar lines (?) or synths act as a melodic touch surrounded by these noisy loops. Electric guitar ambience ripples out, somewhat countering the darker territory. By this stage the ambience of “ást I” seems a distant thing. “ást IV” begins with wiry drones that vibrate and hum like electrical poles. Howling drones and glitchy static cover these sounds before guitar drones arch across which is added to by simple beautiful piano that provides a respite and melodic touch to the track. The pulsing drones from the beginning also ground the track. A wall of feedback close to the end signals both the end of the track, but also provides a nice diversion from the static. “ást V” the twangy guitar drones that open this track lead into a drone piece that feels it’s representing an ever-changing weather pattern. A shift in sound occurs with loops of sound including piano, what sounds like modifies wave recordings and other distorted sounds (one sounds like bricks rubbing together, but surely is not). The construction of the track is similar to that of a pop song where the section that the piano comes through being like the chorus of the piece and the motif that it returns to. Some gremlin like electronics make their way in in the last-minute and a half, but I don’t feel they fit in too well and detract from the track slightly.“ást VI” drones radiate outwards broken up by guitar chords that sound like rocks thrown in calm water that then ripples outwards. Loops recordings of some sort of detritus joins in before a slight storm feel comes across the piece with a long never-changing mostly drone cementing itself in the track. Waves of ambience joins in, before the previous elements start circling around, changing their configurations before a storm leads us to silence. “ást VII” glitching clattering sounds build up over warping synth drones before another drone, piano, bells and a squalling sound join in. The clattering sound has a percussive quality and the bells are a welcome melodic touch as is the piano. The music works in loop form in returning waves as opposed to constantly being there. Bracaloni utilizes the methods of addition and subtraction to make the music, make it familiar, but also not boring. “ást VIII” chimes, fractured radio recordings, drones and backward squally sounds lead into the most fluid of the minimal piano featured on the album. The piano creates a bit of a rollicking feel to the track while the other elements are consistent in their sound and placement. There is a feeling of Nostalgia and I am not sure of all the tracks are to be a chronological expose on love, but this musically feels like it is looking back and inwards. Recording an album with a central feeling of love can be a difficult proposition, simply because it can be opened to interpretation by other people. I wouldn’t particularly be able to, hand on heart say I got the feeling of the theme of love straight from the music, but as you read the press notes it does state this: “ást” is everyday life and smiles, cries, fights at night” which could possibly explain some of the sounds included. I will leave this up to your own interpretation. “ást” comes in two editions. The usual amazing Time Released Sound art edition in a uniquely hand collaged reel to reel box with various ephemera and a more traditional digipak version.

    Review by Raffaello Russo
    Rockerilla Magazine (IT)
    June 2018

    "ást" means love in icelandic. Title and artwork of the new Lorenzo Bracaloni’s ambient chapter (already visionary folksinger under the monicker of The Child of A Creek) they anticipate much of its content. In fact, the album consists of 8 dense pieces of soft harmonious languors and enveloping environmental layers, surrounded by a series of field recordings and concrete daily sounds, which reflect the intimate pacification dimension from which they were generated. Synth’s soft consistency and guitar tones are combined here with increasingly clear piano embroideries, giving shape to an emotional sounding microcosm. Ambient for Lovers.

    Review by Gino Dal Soler
    Blow Up Magazine (IT)
    Score: 7
    June 2018

    Lorenzo Bracaloni seems now have distanced himself from his original folk project (weird and deviated) under the monicker of The Child of A Creek, which had obtained a certain interest. Fallen is now his new monicker but the horizon he's looking at is electronic, although he has never stopped playing his guitars. His sound is now mixed with synths, field recordings and found objects (paper, bottles, traffic, television etc). "Ast" was composed between October and December 2017 and is the ideal follow-up of his previous album "Secrets of the Moon" (out in 2014 via Psychonavigation Records) and it flows serene along the 8 tracks without titles, as a testimony of a happy period for the musician like the title (that in Icelandic means love) wants to suggest. A love affair brings into play great changes, soul jolts, rooms of daily life, smiles and tears. Here's the sound of a descriptive and never intrusive ambient music, made with the same care of the 100 album copies (packaging created by Colin Herrick of Time Released Sound) where 60 of them are boxes with 60 different artworks.

    Review by Stefano Cavanna
    In Your Eyes webzine – Altri Suoni (IT)
    Score: 8.5
    May 21st, 2018

    Fallen (the tuscan composer Bracaloni Lorenzo) is back with his ambient music of clear quality. As already written, in the occasion of his prev work entitled "No Love Is Sorrow", the musical flow here continues to draw lymph from the teachings of the 70s' headmaster -Brian Eno- to the numerous disciples of one of the greatest contemporary composers. The ambient music in the hands of Lorenzo resumes its original form, finding its natural location in the visual installations, so far from the disturbing forms of doing the drone thing (however very valid) are revealed here, more impacting and less neutral, going a bit 'in contrast with the initial purposes imagined by the british master. "ást" is not only caressing and its beauty resides in a sound research not always conventional, but capable of splendidly rippling the placid wave motion as happens in the 3rd piece called ást III, or with a more defined and accentuated melodic impact in the magnificent 5th piece called ást V. It's also true that, in the presence of a composing continuity, Bracaloni's proposal becomes richer and more composite, full of nuances that can be grasped, in the form of rumors and noises appropriately processed that never seem out of place, but as part of a daily life from which Fallen does not want let us to escape from, pushing us to appreciate its purest aspects, even the smallest things and the apparently insignificant ones and thanks to the "ást" (this word means love in Icelandic) they become useful pieces to complete an existential picture. Fallen conveys feelings that, assessed with the parameters of modernity, belong to times when simplicity was a virtue and not a synonymous of banality or slovenness: this is also why "ást" is a precious work to be cradled and cultivated with the same care and attention that the musician has poured into these compositions, making it a shining and rare musical testimony.

    Review by Marcello Berlich
    CrampiWordPress (IT)
    May 13th, 2018

    "Ást" means 'love' in icelandic. The new album by Fallen, whose architect had previously released music under the pseudonym of The Child Of A Creek, was born from a purely 'domestic' experience, that of the first cohabitation of the musician. Therefore, this year reflects the changes in his everyday life, starting from "small" things to the the sum of which makes characteristic every single existence. Fallen entrusts his reflections through the ways which had characterized his previous works: a type of ambient music which flows slowly, magmatic, with stretched evanescent plots from guitar and piano, organ and synthesizers, ambient sounds and vague noises generated by common objects. Eight compositions that flow placid and enveloping in a mood that can be called reflective and which, at the same time, manages to convey the warmth of a reassuring domestic tranquility.

    Review by Valerio D’Onofrio
    OndaRock (IT)
    score: 7
    May 12th, 2018

    The ambient project of Lorenzo Bracaloni has already given shape (under the monicker of Fallen) to interesting albums such as "No Love Is Sorrow" and "Secrets Of The Moon". Temporarily put aside his folk alter-ego (The Child Of A Creek), the american label Time Released Sound has now released the new Fallen's record entitled "Ást." If an artist, whatever his field of interest can be undoubtedly influenced by the circumstances of private life, "Ást" surely proves it. The word "Ást" means love in icelandic and the album comes out from a period of serenity and well-being of the author, feelings perfectly reflected in the eight tracks of his new release. Recorded with piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizers, processed field recordings (people, traffic, television, radio) and sounds from processed found objects (paper, bottles), "Ást" is the sound of an inner balance, a safe harbor that allows to reflect on life and to find ourselves away from the rush and from the obsessive rhythms imposed by modern society, paying attention to the most authentic things too often underestimated. Bracaloni says: "Ást is everday life, smiles, cries, fights at night, Ást is the heartbeating, Ást is to breathe", and his message tries to get in tune with this balance, helped by the music here. You'll find here brief piano notes on synths carpets, ambient recordings on the background, desultory plucked strings to recreate an inner research that on one hand recalls the eastern spirituality, but also does so with an electronic equipment, which is more in line with the european culture. Eight songs that represent a single long ambient suite, ranging from birds songing with piano notes in the early movements of the 1st composition, with the impetuous flow of the Eno-like drones of the 3rd composition to the blend of piano and electronics of the 8th track here. But trying to describe the songs individually is an understatement, cause "Ást" should be understood as a single 45mins long suite, between peace and suspense, which represent the perennial duplicity of the human soul, constantly divided between serenity and insecurity, a balance too often unfavorable between an inner research and the overwhelming whirl of modernity. "Ást" is the place where the listener might even find a solution or an inspiration, looking for new interpretations of his own existence.

    Review by Raffaello Russo
    Music Won’t Save you (IT)
    April 23rd, 2018

    Exactly one year ago, in occasion of the release of his 2nd ambient album as Fallen entitled "No Love Is Sorrow", Lorenzo Bracaloni (whose visionary folk personality instead manifests itself under the monicker of The Child Of A Creek) has developed an electro-acoustic interaction, delicate and extremely rigorous at the same time, with a sentimental approach suggested by the title. From similar premises here are the 8 tracks of his new work entitled "Ást" (Icelandic term which designates the word Love). Definitely more romantic than its predecessor, "Ást" sees the tuscan artist sharing a peaceful dimension like never done before, through which are filtered soft harmonious languor and enveloping environmental layers, surrounded by a series of field recordings and concrete sounds, that recall the everyday life feelings rather than abstract dreamings. This is a discreet collection of songs focused on the soft consistency of synths and guitar tones, but above all on embroidery of piano notes, both acoustic and electric. Starting from these elements, Bracaloni builds an emotional sound microcosm, more densely populated with accidental noises and frequencies at the beginning and then gradually more "clean" and harmonious, in a crescendo of sonorous heat and human empathy that seals the stylistic transformation of Fallen, under the paths of throbbing cinematic textures. Ambient for lovers.

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ást I 03:55
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ást II 04:13
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ást III 07:42
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ást IV 05:24
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ást V 05:32
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ást VI 05:40
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ást VII 06:13
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ást VIII 05:36

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I am The Child of A Creek/ Fallen. I've released 22 records up 'till now and have shared the stage together with Artists like Carla Bozulich,Marissa Nadler, Laura Gibson,Xabier Iriondo&Wu Fei,Larkin Grimm,José Gonzales,Moltheni,RalfeBand,The Niro,Bachi da Pietra,Midori Hirano,Julia Kent,Elizabeth Cutler,Andi Almqvist,have toured Italy with Sharron Kraus and have played many solo shows ... more

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