A Colour For Autumn (15th Anniversary Edition)

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1.	Droplet 06:46	buy track
2.	Watching It Unfold 05:53	buy track
3.	The Prelude To 02:33	buy track
4.	The Surface Of Everything 05:21	buy track
5.	Galaxies Of Dust 05:02	buy track
6.	Stillness In Motion 05:37	buy track
7.	...And Clouds For Company 06:28	buy track

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Somehow, 15 years has passed since I worked on A Colour For Autumn.

This recording was, in many ways, a critical one for me. In some respects, it rounded out a period of work that was focused on a particular marriage of thematics and harmony. Like For Varying Degrees Of Winter, it dwelled on old world impressions of the seasons, something that, in the southern hemisphere, isn’t intrinsically part of our way of approaching place. I think it was this incongruity with my own lived experience that kick started the interest in making these recordings.

The intention had originally been to take Vivaldi head-on , as the holder of the Four Seasons terrain (I jest of course), but shortly after completing this album, it became resoundingly clear that even in the old world, seasonality was a thing that was known ‘then’, and unknowable ‘now’.

Climate change, as a lived experience and not merely as a ‘possibility’, suddenly came into focus with reports flooding in about the climatic dynamics since the turn of the century and events like the Black Saturday fires here in Australia. It felt like, and continues to feel like, seasonality as some predictable measure of our world is relegated to the ‘before’ times. This record is not about these climatic shifts however, more a recognition of how we have used patterns and predictability to guide us over the centuries and perhaps a realisation that the way forward is not the path we have known historically.

Listening back to the record with fresh ears, a process made completely delightful by Stephan Mathieu who has carefully remastered it, I am struck by how minimal some of the structures were. There are moments that strike me as uncharacteristically patient and even generous, allowing one element to hold without interference. I’m grateful to still feel a deep connection to this edition and to the people and places that helped shape it.

I hope you find some sense of your place here. It’s offered with that intention and invitation.

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released September 20, 2024

Written and Produced by Lawrence English
Vocals on 'Droplet' by Dean Roberts
Electronics on 'The Surface Of Everything' by Christian Fennesz

Mastered at Schwebung Mastering
Design by T.Pakioufakis

Written and produced at 158.
Recorded in Brazil, Marseilles, Tasmania, Japan and Brisbane September 2007 - January 2009.

Thanks to Taylor Deupree and 12K for their support of this work.

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Lawrence English. Philosopher of listening. Room40 Honcho. Generally questioning living, dying and everything else in-between.

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