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Field Lines Cartographer - Modalities of Time Travel

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Anthony Childs REALLY wish I'd subscribed sooner to be able to enjoy this on vinyl! Curious the artist cited 12 Monkeys and not La Jetee as one of the key inspirations. For me, this has a more somber, introspective and timeless feel more akin to La Jetee than 12 Monkeys (though I also am a big fan of Terry Gilliam). Gorgeous music and you get the bonus of a list of excellent movies to enjoy (another note to the artist: Time Crimes is also a good film to watch). Now to somehow procure a vinyl copy... Favorite track: The Endless Mechanism.
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Infinite Tapes An hour of chimes & drones. Like being stuffed inside a clock and dying slowly. If that doesn't sound like a good time, then I don't want to know you. Favorite track: The Endless Mechanism.
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ebuzzmiller SO good. If this is any indication of the quality of the Subscription Library releases to come, I'm VERY pleased.
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garethevans Beautiful. Evoked memories of listening to Ralf and Florian and Radio Sweden International. Favorite track: The Endless Mechanism.
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Lanternwick This is amazing. Very easy to become totally lost in this beauty. Every track is perfect. One of the best releases of the year for me. Looking forward to the vinyl version. 10/10
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Gordon Chapman-Fox Stunning. An absolute warm, cosy sonic bath. Favorite track: Homeograph.
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Mark Burford talks about the inspiration and background for "Modalities of Time Travel":

Are we mere products of time, or are we its creators?

I know I'm not alone in finding the concept of time travel pretty fascinating and it's something I've used as partial inspiration on other albums too. But I was really drawn to write Modalities Of Time Travel due to the pandemic that we were firmly in the grip of when I started work on this album. Time just seemed 'weird' after lockdown started. Also, the terrible effects of a global plague, where no-one was quite sure about how it started, got me thinking about the Terry Gilliam film, "Twelve Monkeys" which I think is an excellent example of the time travel paradigm - and paradox.

"Twelve Monkeys" is a dystopian film, and given how things felt in the real world, I became conscious that I didn't want the album to be too bleak, so I also started to re-examine other, perhaps more positive, even 'spiritual' treatments of time-travel. The Denis Villeneuve movie "Arrival" is particularly brilliant and some of the weirder 'time-loop' concepts in films like "Primer" & "The Endless" really fed into this record. Additionally, The Philadelphia Experiment & Montauk Project, where it's claimed the U.S military have been dabbling with 'time tunnels' since the 1940s. I'm also a fan of the German TV series, "Dark", which is a pretty mind blowing examination of the whole concept.

Finally, I'd been reading a bit of layman's stuff about gravity & black holes etc. by people like Professor Kip Thorne & I just really became interested in this link between time & gravity: we know that our perception and indeed the measurement of time is affected by gravity, but it looks like really gravity is actually a product of 'affected time' - the warping or bending of space-time by objects like planets and stars (or anything with mass), so we're all warping the fabric of space-time as we exist in it. It's heavy stuff ( pardon the pun ).

Certainly my own perception of time has been really affected by the events of 2020 and again I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in feeling that way. The fact that time is fluid and elastic and to a certain extent perceived as a product of our own psyche, as well as being a natural universal mechanism, is really the main thing I discovered as I made this album.

I think that music, along with things like reading, is really one of the best manipulators of our own 'inner-time', our 'psychic clock'.

I hope that people can use this album to explore that effect as they listen.

An interview with Mark discussing the album will be available to subscribers shortly.

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released November 5, 2020

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