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Safernoc out now on FSOLDigital - FSOL's label
Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 4:38 AM
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Available from The Future Sound of London's online label, FSOLDigital here for £5.00.
Second Thought - Safernoc
Safernoc is the third full-length album from Ross Baker, better known as Second Thought. The album follows 2004's wet and windy ambient Purlieu, its harsher, urban-themed follow-up, 2007's Vacuum Road Songs, and 2010's 'experimental series', a run of acclaimed EPs and mini-albums released on netlabels, CDrs and cassettes, exploring new ways of composition and production.
Less conceptual and more free-flowing than the first two albums, Safernoc instead focusses on electronic pulses, piano and string arrangements, and slow moving melancholia, lending the record a more haunting feel and a return to a pastoral sound after Vacuum Road Songs's rhythmic textures. Inspired in part by some of Baker's favourite composers - John Cage, Max Richter, Edgard Varése and Gustav Holst - the album blends this almost neo-classical sound with more recognisable Second Thought ambience, field recordings and occasional forays into contemporary dance music. Titles referencing ancient Britain and its myths and legends, and the desolate moorland artwork on display alongside the album reflect the mood presented in the music.
01. Send More Bees
02. Night Train
03. Barghest
04. Marown Dhoo
05. Savernake
06. Kelpie
07. Cwn Annwn
08. Moss
09. Vantage Point
10. Timber Wolf
11. Aqueduct
12. Beddgelert
Samples and artwork on YouTube:
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Second Thought
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RE: Second Thought - Safernoc
Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 4:39 AM
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It might seem a bit odd to be doing a big pre-release excitement thing about an album when I've been putting out music regularly for months, but last year's releases were all experiments; each an attempt to write and/or produce music in a new manner. Safernoc was actually recorded between February and November 2009 and I've been waiting for the label to put it out since then. This is a fully flowing album in the way none of last year's releases were (other than 60 Degrees South).
If all goes to plan, it should be available for purchase through a respected digital store at the end of January, and I think I'll be pressing up a short run of CDs later in the year. Anybody who buys the digital version will be furnished with a CD copy when they're available.
More details soon. 
Two tracks - Savernake and Aqueduct - are available on my AS page.
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Second Thought
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RE: Second Thought - Safernoc
Monday, January 10, 2011 at 11:57 AM
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Here's a promo mix I've done containing tracks that inspired the writing and recording of Safernoc, plus a couple of pieces from the album itself. It's called Tales Of A Lost Age and can be streamed and/or downloaded from SoundCloud by clicking the title just there where I put the title.
Second Thought - Send Fewer Bees
Edgard Varese - Désertes: Third Electronic Interpolation (Beginning)
Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight
The Future Sound of London - Summer's Dream
John Cage - Imaginary Landscape No. 1
Pierre Boulez - Troisieme Sonate Formant 2: Trope, Glose
Second Thought - Night Train
Underworld - Luetin
Oasis - Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix Part 3)
Second Thought - Aqueduct
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (Second Thought Remix)
Second Thought - Barghest
Autechre - Pir
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Second Thought
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RE: Second Thought - Safernoc
Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 9:22 AM
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It is with more excitement and pride than I could ever put into words that I can confirm and announce the release of Safernoc through The Future Sound of London's online label, FSOLDigital.
The mp3 + artwork release costs a mere £5.00 from here.
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