Elysian Fields, by Andrew Heath & James Osland

Elysian Fields

by Andrew Heath & James Osland

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Special 'Artists Books CD' Edition
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Book Editions' series. old books carefully dissected, re-assembled and re-structured into book-bound CD covers…

These are simply stunning, handheld works of art. Each one is unique and and a joy to open and look through. Made with love, numbered and stamped.

1 x Vintage (circa:1880-1954) hardback clothbound book (re-assembled into CD covers)
1 x CD (full size)
20 Pages of writing / image inserts
15 x vintage luxury prints designed by Daniel Crossley (300grm)
1 x Stamped / numbered library card
1 x Nostalgia edition postcard
1 x Vintage photograph (circa; 1896-1944)
1 x Vintage book-mark
1 x Vintage celluloid negative
1 x Vintage 35mm slide
1 x Vintage book insert
1 x reel to reel audio off cut (Sweden 1959)

Strictly limited edition: 7 copies (no two copies are the same)

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1.	Industrial breathing 08:33	buy track
2.	L'escalier dans le jardin 09:16	buy track
3.	The decline of matter 07:48	buy track
4.	The space beyond 09:18	buy track
5.	A blessing for redemption 09:06	buy track
6.	The things you see 07:06	buy track
7.	Steam and electricity 07:12	buy track
8.	Life slowly changes 07:00	buy track

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This intimate and ethereal collaboration between Andrew Heath and James Osland places itself in a dense, fog-like, woven landscape and charts paths that reveal slow moving cloud-like structures and motifs. Informed by muted modular tones, ethereal guitar work and sparse piano with found-sounds and field recordings that dance around the dense air and leaves the listener in a cocooned, dreamlike state.

Elysian Fields is the pair’s second release. They were drawn together by a mutual respect for each others work in the ambient music field. Both are UK based artists. Andrew having released several albums and EPs on Disco Gecko, Whitelabrecs, Rusted Tone Recordings, Elm Records and Chihei Hatakeyama’s Japanese label, White Paddy Mountain. He has collaborated with among others, the legendary Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dutch ambient guitarist, Anne Chris Bakker and electronica artist, Banco de Gaia. James Osland not only runs the boutique cassette label, Elm Records but releases as an artist in his own right having worked with such labelsu as Unknown Tone Records, Whitelabrecs, Flaming Pines and Rusted Tone Recordings to name a few. His work seeks to explore our relationships with sound, memory and place through a variety of different sonic processes.

Originally released on the wonderful, boutique label Fluid Audio, Elysian Fields is a true art object for the discerning collector. Created from found and disassembled old books and including treated vintage photos and various ephemera. Huge thanks must go to Daniel and Jessica for their commitment to both this work and their amazing label. James and Andrew continue to quietly work on material together so expect more from this wellspring of beautiful and dreamlike work.

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released February 16, 2024

Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios

Design by Daniel Crossley

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Andrew Heath Stroud, UK

Ambient, piano based, lower-case music. Quiet and intimate - it explores sounds from both acoustic and electronic sources, along with processed field recordings and gathered, ‘found’ sounds. This music is not static though. It drifts. It constantly shifts and creates new maps that are full of change but listen carefully and you’ll also hear quiet, random glitches or shimmering dissonances. ... more

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