Petteril // Neither the Beginning nor the End Exist LP

British ambient writer Petteril will release a British ambient label in July 2023.Tonights Dream RecordsIt is a record released from.

Contains 8 neo-classical ambient songs by piano and tape.

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12 "black vinyl.

Tonights Dream Records:

"A box of old photographic slides uncovered at a house clearance center with a £5 asking price. On the slide's a collection of shots from the 60's–70's: British rural life plus various trips around Europe and a trip to the US. Bill, Jean and Edith (and Pippi the budgerigar). The relationship between the three is unclear but they seem to live together—or at least spend a lot of time together—they seem close. Presumably, they have since passed away given their apparent ages in the pictures and the dates scrawled on the slides and boxes. What happened? How did these slides come to be here and were there no family or friends that wanted to claim them ?

Initially, the discovery feels uncomfortable, intrusive, upsetting even. Considerations on the transient, the ephemeral. It feels inescapable that—regardless of intention—this is in some way a commentary on the value of a life. On the value of Bill, Jean and Edith's (and Pippi's) lives But studying the slides in more detail it is clear that the three subjects shared many happy times and experiences. They are always smiling and there appears a sense of genuine camaraderie and affection between them. A passion for photography too.

So should we be sad that these lives are seemingly forgotten? That £5 is the asking price for the physical documentation of years of adventures? Or satisfied that the imagery represents lives happily lived and shared. themselves) is not equal to the value of the actual lived experiences of the subjects or the lesson that Bill, Jean, Edith (and Pippi) can teach us. in how it is lived in the moment. Exist and enjoy it—if you can—because in the face of impermanence that's all we can really do.

Petteril (James Gilbert) has been creating audio collages and improvisations with these concepts in mind. The music is not so much about the slides or the people on the slides, (although both the imagery and the music evoke a kind of nostalgia) but concerned with the whole philosophical discourse that ensued. Improvisation (with various instruments, physical, analog and digital) is a key consideration based on the aforementioned theme of being in the moment. Generative elements also represent that transience and the fleeting nature of moments coming and going These evolving beds of sound and improvisations coupled with tape loops, field recordings and more are chopped, layered and collaged, processed, layered, collaged and processed again. "

Artist: Petteril

Label : Tonights Dream Records