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"Everything started when Sky Diaries, the original EP by young fellow Fred Baty a.k.a. Crepusculum, was released at 12rec. in December 2006. It was a five song EP comprised solely of incredible acoustic music, composed with a guitar and some decent electronic enhancements. His music left me completely stunned and I immediately thought that the pureness of Fred's guitar-play would be a fantastic inspiration in the hands of electronic musicians.
From both Zymogen and 12rec., several names came up. We were lucky enough to receive enthusiastic responses from both sides as well as from artists of other great labels such as EKO, Rain Music, Autoplate, Standard Klik Music and Nexsound. In the end there were so many great tracks that we decided to assemble two different playlists; one for the digital EP, downloadable for free on Zymogen, and one for the amazing handmade CDr-LP available at the 12rec. webshop, both with exclusive remixes and artwork.
Many artists took part in the project, adding their personal touch to every single Crepusculum track. These include Tupolev bassist and sound-artist Alexandr Vatagin, Darren McClure, Engine7, Emil Klotzsch & Raimund Sudermann, Bluermutt, Letna, Alexandre Navarro, Ibakusha, The Love Songs, Heezen, Koutaro Fukui, GoGooo and the Netaudio legend Marsen Jules who contributed different remixes for both the album and the EP.
What is particularly incredible about Sky Diary Edits is how the different interpretations of the same source fit together. Every musician deconstructed Fred's guitar as if to get closer to the original melancholia of his melodies. This is particularly evident in pieces by Darren McClure, Klotzsch & Sudermann, Letna and GoGooo. Certain musicians chose to completely turn the tracks inside out in order to give a new feel such as Heezen and Bluermutt. The album serves as a vital constituent of the whole as it completes the EP with some of the best remixes of the entire project, namely by Klotzsch & Sudermann, Koutaro Fukui, The Love Songs and GoGooo… absolutely unmissable!". Filippo Aldovini.
"The young lad behind the Crepusculum-moniker is Fred Baty from London. 'Crepusculum' is latin for sundown and suits the music of our december-release perfectly: the day is done, you're creeping home to take a rest, to chat with the ones you love, to do what life REALLY is about. This ambience of being-at-home is a also a fairly good Christmas-motive, so maybe the best time to enjoy Fred's 'Sky Diaries EP' is now...
What does it sound like? If you're down with the 12rec.-backcatalogue, you'll probably remember the 'Dusty Window EP' by Californian Giraffe. Like him, Fred uses his acoustic guitar for most of his compositions. Folk is an important influence, and the boy Baty surely enjoys the last 40 years' classical pop-bands. But in distinction to Giraffe, Fred doesn't intend to write 'songs' like them. His instrumental Pop-music avoids vocals, is built from clever structures, unusual harmonic layering and a talent to let songs end. No psychedelic Freak Folk-jams in here! The late Talk Talk might be a good comparison, you can mention Brian Wilson, Sufjan Stevens or German Postfolk-duo Taunus. In all, you will enjoy his music even if it is of no importance to you that Fred's influences are more like Jazz, contemporary composing or Folklore - beauty is something everyone understands.
Big shout-outs to Bill 'Herzog' Bawden from the Serein-collective who contributed the remix!". 12rec.
"A disc’s worth of Stefan “Z’ev” Weisser’s composings / processings of Stephen O’Malley’s solo guitar drone / kill; a wooly wash of percussive interjections (some of it coming close to Daniel Menche’s recent work) and full-frequency spectral pile-up. Quite nice, actually. Packaged in a special 5" mini-gatefold cardboard jacket (like Sunn / Boris “Altar”, Grave Temple, etc). Mixed by Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))))".
“Mimema consists of two minimal and exteneded drone pieces of electronically processed samples of organ music. Mimema is intended for low volume listening.
Mimema is a work dedicated to the understanding of transcendence, in the personal and collective sense of our being. It is the light that imitates darkness and the reason that imitates dreams.
The night is long, but not eternal. When I was a child I used to journey into the darkness of night through metaphysical states of being. To enter the dream world or the world of the subconscious being, I used to project myself into a state of weightlessness. While lying in the middle of the bed I would concentrate and focus on the center of the earth and imagine I could feel the force of gravity. After a certain period of time the sense feeling of the body was diminished and a different sense took over. The bed would be transformed into a floating surface on which I lay in a flat position to navigate the great void of space. At first this space constituted of the three dimensional definable space we are mostly familiar with, which could be understood through the shifting plane of the bed. Over time however, this becomes a literal inversion of the cognitive process, as other "dimensions" would unfold. The new dimensions were not exponents of the initial three so much as they were leaps into a dimensionless field, a state beyond time and space. Time and space become transcendent conditions and are navigable by relative association of thought, memory and sensory energy. Much of my youth was spent in fear of the night, a fear for being alone in the unknown. I can see that this searching would help me find comfort and consolation in transforming fear into a journey, from my waking life to sleeping and back again.”