Sunseastar - Fjaerland

When I had a series of brain hemorrhages a few years ago I had to have brain surgery that almost killed me. For a while it looked like I would probably die, and I decided that, if I lived, I ought at least to write a book and release an album of music. The last time I posted here it was to announce the release of my book about Faust (Faust: Stretch Out Time), and yesterday I finally got copies of the album Fjaerland, which I recorded as part of sunseastar alongside Simon Crab.
According to the sleeve notes: "These recordings are the first result of several years of work. Crab and I had worked together in his group Bourbonese Qualk before starting sunseastar as a separate project with its own agenda. The idea was inspired by listening to Xenakis and thinking about a physicists’ joke about how uncanny it is that nature can solve differential equations instantaneously. The stochastic processes Xenakis uses to construct his music are all around us anyway. From this thought came the idea of taking a short cut around the hard work Xenakis had to do, and making musique concrete based directly on the sound of chaotic processes – the sound of chains rattling, of rain falling, of a field of sheep sounding their bells together, of the sea crashing on the shore, of insects moving through grass."

Andy Wilson, 2007.