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Chalybeate Spring

by Kit Monteith & Jérémy Moors

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Elements 04:08
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2.
Isolation 07:40
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3.
Quarter Choir 02:17
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4.
One Micron 06:04
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5.
Rain Waves 04:16
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T.R.Y 02:52
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Red Kite 03:59
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Pulsar 03:07
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9.
Yusef 03:21
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Please note that physical copies of Chalybeate Spring are available via the Golden Ratio Frequencies bandcamp page: goldenratiofrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/chalybeate-spring

A few minutes’ walk from Monteith’s home, there is a chalybeate spring, a naturally occurring mineral water spring containing salts of iron. Since the 17th century, these spring waters were thought to have miraculous healing properties, including the ability to cure ‘lowness of spirit’, amongst many other ailments. Monteith visited the spring almost daily to drink from it before returning home, inspired to work on music during a particularly fertile period of creativity throughout 2020 and 2021. Like the pure, flowing waters of the spring, the eponymous album Chalybeate Spring is a culmination of some of his most serene and meditative work to date.

After outlining the basic forms of most tracks Monteith invited his long-term friend and collaborator, Jérémy Moors, to bring his skills in modular synthesis to the project. Together they finalised the compositions, remaining always conscious of the underlying theme of flowing water. Chalybeate Spring is a quiet celebration of the experience in finding contemplative calm through creativity and of the bond that collaborative creation can forge between old friends.

Through 9 pieces of sonic sublimity, tones and textures flow, fluidly weaving around a fundamental core, rooted in heart and steeped in spirit, that evoke swells of emotion to spring forth, tantalising the ear and soothing the soul. Opening track “Elements” sets the mood with watery surges of sound gently bubbling into ecstatic flux; those themes following into “Isolation”, featuring liquescent patterns of repeating sequences pulsing with movement. Elsewhere, tracks like “One Micron” drip with melancholy, and the emotive “Rain Waves” wash over the listener with pads, swirls, and gentle percussive bass, absolving us from the weight of the worldly concerns and ushering in a state of tranquillity.

The album is augmented by a range of guests and talent, with bass guitar duties handled by Everything Everything’s Jeremy Pritchard, mastering by Polypore’s James Buckley and a collaborative audio-visual series accompaniment from acclaimed visual artist Sam Wiehl. This audio-visual series is entitled Spring Reactions and takes the form of 4 NFT style digital video artworks, available to own as part of any purchase of the album from this page.

Physical editions are manifested as a special limited-edition box set, containing the cassette album duplicated on pro-dubbed C45 “spring water clear” transparent cassette with on-body print, double-sided 4-panel inlay, screen printed Golden Ratio Spiral acetate, and accompanied by a small vial of spring water collected from the chalybeate spring near Monteith’s home.
***Please note that physical copies are only available via the Golden Ratio Frequencies bandcamp page: goldenratiofrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/chalybeate-spring

credits

released November 23, 2022

All tracks written by Kit Monteith & Jérémy Moors.

Bass guitar on Elements, Rain Waves, Red Kite and Pulsar was performed by Jeremy Pritchard.

Additional Production on One Micron and Red Kite by Stephen James Buckley.

Mastered by Stephen James Buckley

Cover photography by Josh Caudwell

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Percussionist & Producer Kit Monteith creates textural soundscapes & emotive ambience using tape machines, samplers, synthesizers, field recordings & analog fx.

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