Cumulus Sketches, by Wil Bolton

Cumulus Sketches

by Wil Bolton

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wolfrab Warm and welcoming. Field recordings (mostly nature sounds) in the background. Favorite track: Scoria.

editions vaché A suite of perfect soundworks- airy drones that -as home normal says- are perfect for cloud-watching, dreaming, you name it.....these pieces lilt and glide, a true antidote to our anxious times.......ss/tm/am Favorite track: Unravelling.

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1.	Unravelling 06:30	buy track
2.	Cumulus Sketch 06:39	buy track
3.	Lavender Layer 07:56	buy track
4.	In Flight 09:40	buy track
5.	Scoria 06:18	buy track
6.	Too Soon 07:55	buy track

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Following up from 2014's 'Bokeh', Home Normal welcomes back Wil Bolton. 'Cumulus Sketches’ is an album of fragile, drifting ambient structures for daydreaming and cloud-watching. Pastoral analogue synthesizer melodies and effects pedal textures are intertwined with rural and urban environmental sounds recorded in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.

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released January 14, 2021

Written and recorded by Wil Bolton
Cover art by Stijn Hüwels
Mastered by Ian Hawgood

copyright © 2021 Home Normal

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'Cumulus Sketches is immediately expansive, with spread-out, immersive melodies and an oriental atmosphere. In general, the music is tranquil, restorative, and healthy, and the tracks are given time to properly develop, feeling more like fully-grown pieces and less like the sketches of its title. The blurred effect of reverb only adds to the dream, making Cumulus Sketches the perfect soundtrack for cloud gazing.' James Catchpole, Fluid Radio

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Home Normal is an analog ambient music label.

Founded in Tokyo in 2008, Home Normal crossed over the connection from the netlabel scene to present analog ambient music in unique physical packages across our connected labels, leading the way for the micro-label movement in 2009.

Moving to the UK in 2019, our releases can still be found in independent stores across Japan.

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