Things That Were Almost Broken // Unknown Tone Recordings, by James Osland

Things That Were Almost Broken // Unknown Tone Recordings

by James Osland

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1.	01. She Joined Her laughter With Mine 03:42	buy track
2.	02. In My Dream, I Was drinking Tea 03:36	buy track
3.	03. A Kind Of Loneliness New To Me 04:32	buy track
4.	04. Sometimes The World Seems Like A Pretty Cruel Place 03:55	buy track
5.	05. Scattering Its Fibres To The Wind 04:22	buy track
6.	06. But You Haven't Seen The Winters Here 03:28	buy track
7.	07. The Sunday Crowds Gave Me Some Relief 06:16	buy track

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This album was written during the winter of 2017, a very turbulent time in my life. I was in the process of writing a new album when lots of my equipment began to break down on me; during the recording process, the broken equipment caused lots of unintended artefacts that later became the basis for this album. The equipment failure seemed to echo many of the personal issues I was having in my own life at the time. Relationships, housing, jobs amongst other things all seemed to be falling apart and with the added pressure of core equipment failing on me I began to reflect on what it means for something to be broken, and whether or not broken can be fixed.

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released April 11, 2020

Written, recorded and mixed by James Osland. Mastering by Mark Kuykendall.

Released via Unknown Tone Recordings

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James Osland Audio England, UK

James Osland is an audio-visual artist, composer and label owner currently residing in Devon, UK.

His work seeks to explore our relationships with sound, memory and place.

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