Glacis & The Humble Bee - 6X5 (Elm)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

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What We Say

A project  where an ambient artist takes his favourite track from a 2 year old LP & remixes it 5 times is not the most exciting premise. Luckily the original track is a sublime piece of minimal piano playing by Glacis - which you are treated to at the end, & the 5 distinct variations have been lovingly crafted by none other than The Humble Bee into a perfect, sedentary Sunday soundtrack for Elm Records.

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What The Release NOtes Say

6X5 is the first collaborative album between long standing ambient artists Glacis and The Humble Bee.

The projects humble beginning started with the release of 'Ten', an album of ten minimal piano pieces composed by Glacis for Piano day 2021.

Drawn to the beautifully simplistic motifs in this album The Humble Bee set about deconstructing and reimagining track 5 of the album. The results were 5 piece of music that tap into the deeply emotive language of the song, delicately weaving together textures, melodies, tape loops and instrumentation to create a rich bed of fuzzy decaying sounds.

The result is a sublimely crafted journey that feels like you are drifting in and out of a deep dreamlike state, slowly catching snippets of lost melodies in the rare moments of lucidity. Noisy tape loops and deep meditative soundscapes slowly blur the edges of these lingering melodies, gently decaying away into lush beds of soft textures.

CREDITS
All music written, recorded and mixed by Glacis & The Humble Bee

Mastering by James E Armstrong

Artwork by James Osland

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