La Mer by riverrun
'La Mer' is the second riverrun album, and it was originally released in the spring of 2011.
Like the first record, 'Pentimento', it was made by layering new experimental pieces with a range of old four-track tape recordings that I had in my archive.
I spent most of Christmas 2010, back home in Devon, looking through boxes of my old tapes. In the process I discovered a recording of the sea at the North Somerset coast, from the mid 1990s, when I was a teenager, and when my family had a holiday place at Doniford Bay (a piece also referred to in one of the better pieces from 'Pentimento').
I used this tape and a some other old recordings to piece together a series of tracks that referred to Doniford, and to various other seaside places I'd known in my life.
Read more at: https://danielland.co.uk/la-mer
Tracklist
| 1. | Crosswinds | 2:14 |
| 2. | Dunkery Beacon | 4:32 |
| 3. | La Corbière | 9:22 |
| 4. | Jared By The Sea | 6:15 |
| 5. | Five Mile Beach | 4:23 |
| 6. | Hollow Ponds | 3:55 |
| 7. | Doniford Bay Revisited | 10:31 |
| 8. | Atlantic Beach | 7:38 |
| 9. | The Old Light | 14:02 |
| 10. | Val De La Mare | 7:11 |
| 11. | Little Sea | 4:04 |
| 12. | Dancing Ledge | 35:05 |
Credits
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Daniel Land's riverrun project is a series of heavily-composted landscape recordings, that he has been working on for nearly two decades in parallel to his songs. Building upon the groundwork laid down by Brian Eno's 'On Land' album, riverrun's music painstakingly layers field recordings and reprocessed studio tracks into a deeply nostalgic exploration of geography and memory.