BEN CHATWIN streams new album in full


Hear 'Heat & Entropy' ahead of release this Friday on Ba Da Bing Records


Multi-instrumentalist shares arresting album inspired by Scottish seascapes, mechanical structures & the contrast between the organic & man made.


“Peaks with gale-force electronics as the Scottish musician plays scintillating lines on hammer dulcimer in the most dramatic usage of the instrument since Nico’s “Evenings of Light”” - 
The Wire
“Bowed strings that shimmer and pizzicato ones that echo, grainy guitar textures rising up in waves and sprays, abstracted and distorted rumbles and thrums” - **** The Arts Desk
"Dark, bare, beautiful soundscapes that mix analog electronics with classical sensibilities. His sound defies form, allowing it to float in any direction he pleases." - Stereogum
"The kind of labyrinthine expedition that drapes a sense of wonderment upon the listener.” - Gold Flake Paint 
Ahead of release this Friday, July 29 via Ba Da Bing Records, Edinburgh multi-instrumentalist Ben Chatwin is streaming his arresting new album ‘Heat & Entropy’ in full now.

On ‘Heat & Entropy’, Chatwin, who has previously released under the name Talvihorros, experiments with the capabilities of the tactile, physical creation of music. Initially it was intended to be an album using only strings of any possible type, forcing him to explore using lesser-known instruments, and, perhaps more importantly, the way in which he uses them. For “Standing Waves,” Chatwin attaches pieces of metal, rubber and tape to the piano strings in order to add a greater percussive sound. “The Kraken” uses Terry Riley’s repetition as a starting point, but leads to distorted vocals and an intense hammered dulcimer climax. Euclidean Plane incorporates a bowed mandolin and a three-stringed didley-bow, whilst achieving what sound like whale noises by rubbing a £1 coin on electric guitar strings.

Despite the unique sounds and textures Ben found amongst the strings, eventually the lure of electronics proved too great. “The album then became about the tensions between the acoustic, or natural world, and the electronic world” he explains.
 
Chatwin refers to Heat & Entropy as “an album of contrast, conflict and chaos, but also of complex relationships.” His achievement is in how he’s able to allow melody to rise above the maelstrom as the main focus of his compositions. It’s an album of experimentation, of delicately contrasting the organic with the artificial, and ultimately of great beauty and sophistication. It marks the start of a new chapter performing as Ben Chatwin, and the emergence of an incredibly exciting and visionary Scottish composer.
 
‘Heat & Entropy’ will be available on July 29th via Ba Da Bing Records.
 

‘Heat & Entropy' tracklist:
1. Inflexion
2. Gravitational Bodies
3. Standing Waves
4. Phantom Lights
5. Oscillations
6. The Kraken
7. Surface Tension
8. Euclidean Plane
9. Corpseways
 

Links:
Track by Track on The Line of Best Fit
Ben Chatwin press shot
Ben Chatwin on Facebook
Ben Chatwin on Twitter
Ben Chatwin official web site
Badabing Record


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