Remensum vinyl

In Spanish the word "remanso" (backwater) comes from the Latin "remansum"...meaning the action of stopping and remaining in place...especially in an inherently idyllic place, where beautiful music such as this can be heard! As Mario himself says about his new album... "I had some material from past electroacoustic "academic" works that I know would be great to use in my ambient music. These were created through long manipulation processes of real sounds (objects and instruments). In other words they are custom made sounds. My basic inspiration for "Remansum" came from listening to and improvising on this sound material. The improvisations were on a piano, and I tried to find melodic patterns and harmonies that would go well with these sound textures. My music has many influences, and I could point in particular to the Impressionists (Debussy, Satie ...), where the focus in on mood and atmosphere. I aimed to combine these impressionistic elements with sparse minimalistic melodies and distinct electronic sounds." This first deluxe, limited edition version of Remansum, in an edition of only 75 copies, comes in the form of a hand made, 12" lathe cut record in an extensively handworked, heavy weight, recycled chipboard jacket. Each jacket has been uniquely collaged on the front with torn and reassembled photographs from a 100 year old book on travels in Spain, each in the form of an original and architecturally modified and mysterious landscape. Each collage is then surrounded by a frame of tissue thin vellum that has been painstakingly sized, cut out and meticulously applied. The vellum is then stamped with a set of vintage, pastoral French rubber stamps, and each is individually hand titled/stamped as well. On the back of each jacket are other abstracted corner bits of pastoral photos with more extensive floral stamping, and each has adhered to it a black 5' envelope containing the factory pressed CD of the album as well. Centered on this black envelope is a smaller antique envelope, also hand modified, and each of these contains a unique, negative transparency from a museums collection of the arts of antiquity. Each record comes in it's own black poly-lined sleeve. The supremely clean sounding and highest quality lathe cut records were as ever manufactured by Michael Lawrence at Bladud Flies, in Wales, UK...