First Breaths Of Mourning

from First Breaths Of Mourning EP by Andrew Ward aka ARPQuadra

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The piano featured in the central section of this track is a sample library of my 1911 C.Bechstein upright, a Model 9, recorded and created by Patrick Ytting. It is available for free download from www.pianobook.co.uk.
(www.pianobook.co.uk/library/1911-bechstein-upright)

I am indebted to Greta Stoddart for allowing me to edit some lines from her poem and for reading them for me. Please do explore her amazing work. (www.gretastoddart.co.uk)

The associated photograph is of Brendon Murless' sculpture "The Air We Breathe" which is situated in Langmoor Garden on Lyme Regis seafront. Brendon commented, "I wanted to highlight the importance of trees, for air and life, by showing the clear structural similarities in our lungs and the branches of a tree."

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"You dead in spring is not the same as you dead in winter,

You, who were so complicatedly here, are now, so simply,

Gone...gone...gone..."

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from First Breaths Of Mourning EP, released March 13, 2020
Written and Recorded by Andrew Ward in Lyme Regis (with Julian Kindred at Nonsuch Park Studio).

Featuring Greta Stoddart reading edited (by me!) lines from her poem "Turning Earth", published in the "Alive Alive O" collection, Bloodaxe Books, 2015.

Piano, synthesisers and programming by Andrew Ward with additional keyboards and programming by Julian Kindred.

1911 C.Bechstein upright piano sample library by Patrick Ytting.

Co-produced and Mixed by Julian Kindred.

Mastered by Bill Sellar at Simon Heyworth's Super Audio Mastering.

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Andrew Ward aka ARPQuadra Lyme Regis, UK

"Lyme Regis synth freak" - Electronic Sound magazine, Issue 67 - Andrew Ward, aka ARPQuadra. I'm a keyboardist writing & recording on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, southwest England. My album is a set of 19 synth-rock tracks reflecting our shattered times: "The Lockdown Sessions", reviewed in Electronic Sound magazine, issue 67. My EP is more ambient in nature but more fully realised, too... ... more

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