Drawings from Imagined Cities

by Andrew Heath

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The Itzamna Collective Beautiful & touching, those gentle melancholic guitar tones add something so mysterious & deeply moving, especially when the subtle washes of synths swirl around in the ether.

Scott The intricacy of the cover art is a perfect match for the subtle "found sound" details that Andrew weaves into the music. The album has a wonderfully open sound stage with as much room as I could ever hope for to wander around in. Genius Level stuff! Favorite track: Let me see Trees Again.

apositivo I was so happy to be surprised by a new Andrew Heath album, I didn't even hear it, and I went to buy it right away!! But then it has been on repeat because it fills the silences of my home and my life perfectly. This new work by Andrew is another pearl shining in the ambient music!! It's the best ambient music for me!! Favorite track: Melancholia.

time2wind So many musicians add sounds and tracks in their compositions... But the true ambient way is an art to remove what is unnecessary and to keep what is essential. Andrew Heath is an art of minimalism, a way to play with time and silence....

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1.	This Island of Blue 08:16	buy track
2.	My Time Allowed 06:39	buy track
3.	Drawings from Imagined Cities 10:12	buy track
4.	Let me see Trees Again 05:47	buy track
5.	Weather Patterns 09:25	buy track
6.	A Weight of Darkness 03:43	buy track
7.	Melancholia 10:42	buy track
8.	Mother calls me Home 07:49	buy track

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Written during the beautiful and quiet springtime of 2020, Drawings from Imagined Cities represents a shift in my work from the intimate and at times darker and somber moods of previous releases, to a more open and tonal sound reflecting that peaceful, unhurried environment. I found myself experimenting with a more dreamlike palette, warmer and quieter which mirrored the days I spent walking and simply listening to the muted world around me. My ever present use of field recordings are delightful traces of small events that took place during the writing of this album, for example the blackbird in ‘Melancholia’ which we would listen to each evening as the light faded in our garden.

So, informed by this ‘quiet time’ that we all found ourselves in, I was also inspired by much of the new music I was listening to which seemed to resonate with this feeling of allowing oneself to drift as if in a daydream. My ‘rediscovery’ of an earlier body of my work that became ‘Arcadia’ seemed to point in that direction as well.

I had also started experimenting much more with my guitar and this album presents it more prominently than previous releases, but possibly not in ways that are easily recognisable. I loved the physicality of playing, with small movements bringing about a controlled change in sound however, my continuing fascination with the piano remains.

Originally released on cassette, I’m hugely grateful to Elm Records for bringing this into the world.

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released July 23, 2021

Mastered by James Armstrong

Artwork - Sat.VI by Ian Chamberlain

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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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