Charcoal (2014 Special Edition)

by Brambles

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This Side of Tomorrow Only just found this album, stunning. Thick with atmosphere. Will certainly be in my playlist for a long time to come. Only regret I didn’t find it soon enough to purchase the vinyl. Favourite track, ‘In The Antrogynous Dark’, one for my funeral playlist. Favorite track: In The Androgynous Dark.

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quietplease This is just so beautiful. Favorite track: Arête.

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Available again for the first time since 2015 - Charcoal on black 12" virgin vinyl

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This is the brand new CD edition of Charcoal featuring artwork from the vinyl reissue. It also includes the bonus track featured on the vinyl release - a reworking of In The Androgynous Dark by Nest.

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1.	To Speak Of Solitude 04:21	buy track
2.	Such Owls As You 05:29	buy track
3.	In The Androgynous Dark 04:43	buy track
4.	Salt Photographs 06:54	buy track
5.	Pink And Golden Billows 02:58	buy track
6.	Arête 06:11	buy track
7.	Deep Corridor 04:40	buy track
8.	Unsayable 02:52	buy track
9.	Nest - In The Androgynous Dark (Nest Version) 04:17	buy track

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This is the 2014 vinyl special edition of Charcoal by Brambles, also available digitally.

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Brambles is the solo project of Mark Dawson, born in Britain, permanent resident of Australia and currently living who-knows-where as he travels Europe and beyond.

Thanks to a prolific spell of writing from Mark, what was originally pegged as an EP quickly turned into an album. Charcoal is the result of long hours spent recording, editing and mixing. A lot of this material was recorded during his stay at "The Painted Palace" (see the Brambles Forecast mix of the same name), a communal house in Melbourne open to all manner of creative outsiders.

Crucially, the house also played home to a piano; during the night-time this was where Brambles sat, working out melodies and making recordings into the small hours. Sometimes the piano is at the forefront (as on the solo piano piece, 'Unsayable'), while at other times it plays a support role to plucked and bowed strings, haunted woodwind instruments, whispered field recordings and distant chimes ('To Speak of Solitude').

This is undeniably a night-time album, it has that still, peaceful quality to it, the same you get when you walk down a deserted street at night. And despite the slow pace, the music rarely seems melancholic - there's a sense of contentedness which pervades the album from beginning to end. Mark seems very at ease with life and there's a similar spirit to the music, it is deep, thoughtful and optimistic - in the words of Donal Whelan (who mastered the final album), "it's like being wrapped up in a warm blanket". Even the slightly more sinister "Deep Corridor", which plunges you to the depths of the ocean, has that "cosy catastrophe" feel to it. I can't help but think of Blade Runner and Vangelis when I hear it.

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released November 15, 2014

Written and produced by Mark Dawson

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