Darkroom’s new album The Noise Is Unrest - over 3 hours and 20 minutes of fractured ambiences and expansive sonic abstractions - was released to coincide with our performance at the Extreme Chill festival in Iceland in September 2019.
As with 2015’s predecessor album The Rest Is Noise, much of the music was recorded as part of the Tuesdays Post concert series that Darkroom co-organised with singer / composer Georgina Brett between 2013 and 2016. The Noise Is Unrest is based on the later pieces, in the order they were originally recorded, following a post-production process of subtracting and shaping without adding anything more, for repeated later listening.
Throughout The Noise Is Unrest, sounds evolve and reappear across the different pieces as characters with a life of their own. There’s cathedral-like echoey beauty, unsettling volcanic noise, slow transformations and dramatic contrasts; all fitting for the Iceland launch location chosen, though this couldn’t have been guessed when these recordings were originally made.
Available now on Bandcamp at 'Name Your Price'.
darkroomtheband.bandcamp.com/album/the-noise-is-unrest
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'The Noise Is Unrest' is an album of echoey musical landscapes to lose yourself in, on a journey that’s over three hours and twenty minutes long. Serenade - released today - is for when that journey's inaccessible: an audio postcard, created to be exactly 1/60th as long.
darkroomtheband.bandcamp.com/track/serenade
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