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Marta Salogni, Tom Relleen

Music for Open Spaces (LP)

Label: Hands In The Dark

Format: LP

Genre: Electronic

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Super Tip! *Edition of 350 copies, die-cut sleeve, 6 double-sided inserts, incl. download * "Tom and I started recording »Music for Open Spaces« during our travels to Joshua Tree, just at the edge of the desert. Other tracks were recorded while on a trip to Cornwall. We loaded the car with tape machines, a couple of synths and Tom’s bass. When we arrived, we set up a small studio in the living room of a rented house, facing the ocean. The last pieces were made in our familiar places, in London. All the tracks are mostly spontaneously improvised, influenced and inspired by the landscapes in which we were immersed at the time, those being both physical spaces and metaphysical ones, but always open. After Tom passed away, I finished this record on my own, carrying both of us in my heart. I have left these compositions unaltered, unmixed. Just as they were the last time we listened to them together. To me, these “open spaces” are where Tom is now, unconstrained by form.

Together with Morgan Cuinet’s collages, conceived as a visual mirroring of each track, the artwork consists of a blue map Tom made and that I have only recently discovered. This internal map, as he called it, is scratched with his fingernails to create pathways. I wanted to include it on the album, feeling it could be used to navigate these “open spaces”. Or just let yourself drift and wander, as you wish." - Marta Salogni

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Cat. number: HITD 057
Year: 2023

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