Minor Distance (Special Edition)
This collaboration between Bill Seaman and Daniel Howe came about after the pair exchanged ideas and recordings while both where travelling separately - in effect making for an album recorded between North Carolina, Seoul, Bremen, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hong Kong, Thailand, Mainland China and New York - covering a bit more than the "Minor Distances" referred to in the title. The recordings began life with Howe's improvised guitar recordings and Seaman's simple Piano loops - before being dissected and manipulated into the kind of delicate electro-accoustic arrangements synonymous with the whole Cotton Goods aesthetic. The album also features Trumpet parts recorded by Robert Ellis-Geiger (who also mastered the album), and an additional disc of re-works by Craig Tattersall, aka The Humble Bee, who does a typically wonderful job of imbuing proceedings with delicate wonder. His version of "Improbability" in particular sounds like an extract from The Remote Viewer's gorgeous "Let Your Heart Draw A Line" - a thing rent with so much delicate beauty as to make this whole package required listening for any of you who have followed Tattersall, or indeed Cotton Goods in the past.
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This collaboration between Bill Seaman and Daniel Howe came about after the pair exchanged ideas and recordings while both where travelling separately - in effect making for an album recorded between North Carolina, Seoul, Bremen, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hong Kong, Thailand, Mainland China and New York - covering a bit more than the "Minor Distances" referred to in the title. The recordings began life with Howe's improvised guitar recordings and Seaman's simple Piano loops - before being dissected and manipulated into the kind of delicate electro-accoustic arrangements synonymous with the whole Cotton Goods aesthetic. The album also features Trumpet parts recorded by Robert Ellis-Geiger (who also mastered the album), and an additional disc of re-works by Craig Tattersall, aka The Humble Bee, who does a typically wonderful job of imbuing proceedings with delicate wonder. His version of "Improbability" in particular sounds like an extract from The Remote Viewer's gorgeous "Let Your Heart Draw A Line" - a thing rent with so much delicate beauty as to make this whole package required listening for any of you who have followed Tattersall, or indeed Cotton Goods in the past.
This collaboration between Bill Seaman and Daniel Howe came about after the pair exchanged ideas and recordings while both where travelling separately - in effect making for an album recorded between North Carolina, Seoul, Bremen, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hong Kong, Thailand, Mainland China and New York - covering a bit more than the "Minor Distances" referred to in the title. The recordings began life with Howe's improvised guitar recordings and Seaman's simple Piano loops - before being dissected and manipulated into the kind of delicate electro-accoustic arrangements synonymous with the whole Cotton Goods aesthetic. The album also features Trumpet parts recorded by Robert Ellis-Geiger (who also mastered the album), and an additional disc of re-works by Craig Tattersall, aka The Humble Bee, who does a typically wonderful job of imbuing proceedings with delicate wonder. His version of "Improbability" in particular sounds like an extract from The Remote Viewer's gorgeous "Let Your Heart Draw A Line" - a thing rent with so much delicate beauty as to make this whole package required listening for any of you who have followed Tattersall, or indeed Cotton Goods in the past.