M. Geddes Gengras - Hawaiki Tapes

[Lada Laika]

 

https://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/hawaiki-tapes

 

 

Recorded during a vacation on the big island, Hawaiki Tapes is somewhat of an anomaly in the M. Geddes Gengras music —A series of short, improvised sequences voiced by a small plastic digital synthesizer, minimally processed in real time & jacked straight into a handheld recorder. It was made at night, on a little hotel room desk. The internal sequencer of the volca greatly influenced the pieces, since it only goes so slow and is limited in it’s voicing. 

It was windy and cold for most of the trip, and the sky was gigantic and filled with massive rippling clouds that flew between the horizons in minutes. The landscape was made of endless, black rock fields with little grassy spots where the lava hadn’t hit yet. In the process, Gengras had in mind some of the formative ambient music he had listened to in his early years: Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Aphex Twin, and his focus is in the interaction between the synth, the delay and reverb effects. A perfect album for sleepless nights —A new sound statement from M. Geddes Gengras.

credits

released June 15, 2018 

Produced and Mastered by M. Geddes Gengras. 
Design by Daniel Castrejón, photos by M. Geddes Gengras.

 

 

 

[Extralife]

Ooh. Love almost everything I’ve heard from Umor Rex + new Geddes is always a good thing.

[Ethel]

free & easy

love & peace