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An g​à​rradh

by Letters From Mouse

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mechazoid cant wait thanks loving the colors used and art is excellent I'll be grabbing any vinyl albums you drop in future
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Stephen Osborne An absolutely gorgeous album. Drift of to another world whilst listening! Totally sublime. Thank you for the music LFM. Favorite track: How many magpies?.
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boycalledcrow Love this. It's super and it's wonky and very organic. Easy to get lost in. Bright, majestic, and gorgeous. Brilliant job. Can't recommend this enough, fantastic work. One of my favourites this year and worth repeated listens. Favorite track: Gerald.
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listening to this while digging out the compost bin. Gentle, beautiful, the sun is shining, all is good. x Favorite track: How many magpies?.
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keef chemistry Mindful and playful, it plays out like an operetta with characters to-ing and fro-ing. take LFM up and listen while staring out of your wondow ... Favorite track: How many magpies?.
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Snail race 04:25
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Trickle 05:40
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The Divide 03:22

about

"delightfully wonky.. It would charm the birds out of the trees" Electronic Sound Magazine - Issue 76

The garden, the stream, and the wood pulse with activity. LFM takes in the scene from his window, and delivers a beguiling tableau of life and death.

Letters From Mouse - An gàrradh

"An gàrradh (Scots Gaelic for The Garden) is an album inspired by the goings on in my back garden. The garden faces the local stream (The White Burn) and woodland that is teaming with all sorts of creatures, many of which visit the garden.

Watching these little visitors go about their business is a wonderful way to relax and switch off from the world. No matter what is going on these little guys are busy doing their thing in their little world. This album is meant to be listened to while staring out of your window, preferably with a mug of something tasty. Just take some time out and watch the things that happen right on your doorstep, it can be utterly fascinating.

It's a great thought to take into the process of creating music and I do hope that this comes across in the tunes. Many of these were live performances using a modular synthesizer setup with a bit of post production and effects applied at that stage. The unpredictable nature of modular gear really matches the behaviour of these creatures.
Not quite local but thanks to Josh Stewart aka Kh3rtis for the watery sounding samples. Josh recorded these in Vietnam and kindly shared them.

Just for reference Christian is a squirrel (or was) and Gerald is a field mouse.

Big thanks to Dan @ Subexotic for making this happen

Thanks also to everyone in the electronic music community, I'm constantly inspired by the support out there.

Biggest thanks as always to my girls Beata & Amelie who put up with my bleeps and bloops.

LFM is powered by Monolith Modular www.monolithmodular.co.uk/"

Bonus Album:
LFM – Brainmap

"Brainmap is a set of tunes that are a little bit more experimental for LFM. Again much of this material is made up of live modular performances with a bit of post processing.

The tunes are an exploration of thoughts and feelings that are perhaps on the darker side of things. I think with the various lockdowns and restrictions generate a lot of thought that is less than optimistic.

I'm generally a very up / optimistic person but my mind does race at times and I think that its this that keeps me on an even keel. I really do think that the sub conscious handles a lot of conflict and thoughts that could affect how I feel are worked through on the inside as it were. These tunes are an attempt to represent these thoughts in musical terms.

Look out for the crackles and pops in Confused By The Simple. These are from the Halley VLF receiver in the Antarctic and were kindly provided by Nigel Meredith, space weather research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey'.

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released April 16, 2021

Mastering by Antony Ryan (RedRedPaw)

Design by Dan Seville (Subexotic)

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Bubbling analogue synthesis from Scotland.

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