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A Quiet Day

by The Balloonist

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    80s style jewel case and artwork, including Compact Disc Audio care instructions!

    Includes digital pre-order of A Quiet Day. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases May 3, 2024
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Midweek Rain
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Waiting
4.
The Quiet Room
5.
Afternoon Ceefax
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Clouds 05:58
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Above The Town

about

For this album, Ben Holton (epic45, My Autumn Empire, Birds In The Brickwork) explores the foggy, hazy memories of childhood. In particular, the peculiarly ‘lost’ days where nothing much happens. Maybe you are off school with a minor illness or it’s half-term and there are no friends about. Ben is a child of the 80s, and this very much sets the tone of the album.

The silence is broken by daytime TV, schools programmes and the odd afternoon cartoon. Daydreams occur against a backdrop of suburban stillness, broken by woodpigeon echoes and swaying trees. Formica table tops, frosted glass panels, traces of 70s décor, wood effect gas fireplaces and the dust motes floating in the afternoon sun.

Musically, there are traces of Teletext and Ceefax library music, the ambient jazz of Pat Metheny and other ECM artists, the gentle and dreamlike electronica of Suzanne Ciani and the atmospheric home recordings of founding Genesis member, Anthony Phillips.

The whole thing is a very personal achievement, one which Ben has been chasing for many years and has reared its head on some of his other projects. But, here it seems he has hit the main vein of a very specific set of memories.

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releases May 3, 2024

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Wayside & Woodland Recordings England, UK

Wayside & Woodland Recordings was founded by Ben Holton and Rob Glover, and is based in South Staffordshire & The West Midlands.

The home label of epic45, Birds in the Brickwork, The Toy LIbrary, My Autumn Empire, Charles Vaughan and The Balloonist

And has released works by E.L. Heath, Component#4, Richard Youngs, Oliver Cherer, They Go Boom and Mark Van Hoen.
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