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Quarry Bank

by Wil Bolton

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Quarry Bank 04:42
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Water Frame 09:46
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A Black Mist 06:40
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Jacquard 06:20
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Calico 04:42
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Moss & Rust 04:40

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'Quarry Bank' explores the history of Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire, UK, one of the largest and most important British Industrial Revolution cotton mills. Founded in the late 1700′s, it was a working mill for well over 150 years, and has now been rehabilitated and refurbished, and is again a functioning mill, managed by the UK National Trust.

For this project, site-specific recordings of the machinery and environs were blended with electronically treated acoustic instruments – acoustic and classical guitars, zither, music boxes, chime bars, chord organ, violin, analogue synthesizer and effects pedals. The resulting audio is a homage of sorts to the mill, to the people who worked there (the majority of whom were unpaid and indentured child labourers), and to the regions around.

Released by Time Released Sound on digipak CDR and booklet in cloth bag, in a numbered edition of 100.

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released November 26, 2011

Written and produced by Wil Bolton, July-August 2011, using acoustic guitar, classical guitar, zither, music boxes, chime bars, chord organ, violin, analogue synthesizer, effects pedals, laptop, and field recordings made at Quarry Bank Mill, Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK.
Design by Colin Herrick

Time Released Sound TRS-10
www.timereleasedsound.com

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Wil Bolton London, UK

Wil Bolton's work uses guitars, acoustic instruments, vintage keyboards and effects to create warm and emotive melodies, fragmented and submerged among beds of droning ambient textures and environmental sounds.

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