Tides Of Melancholy, by Mick Chillage

Tides Of Melancholy

by Mick Chillage

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Christopher Ellis Mick chillage at his best very emotional and deep sense of wonderment 🙏

s.loya Despite the title, there is a nice balance of darkness and light on Tides, and perhaps like the waves of the ocean, feelings of grief can arrive and recede, replaced, if not for a while by glimmers of hope and happiness. There’s a Yin and Yang quality to Tides, with the final track even incorporating some tribal-sounding percussion, over achingly beautiful pads and chords, suggestive of a hopeful human soul searching for something better as it plods along through this thing we call life. Favorite track: Arc Of Light.

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1.	Submerged Cathedrals 10:39		buy track
2.	One Sanguine Day 18:46		buy track
3.	Footsteps In Fog [For Harold Budd] 09:14	info	buy track
4.	Tides Of Melancholy 24:43		buy track
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“Tides Of Melancholy” will be released just on the first anniversary of Before & After Silence Recordings in early January 2022 and it will be the sixth CD on the label. The album consists of five Ambient pieces of varying lengths, three of which were composed in 2021.

The three pieces I composed in 2021 seemed to fit within a particular emotive narrative and sonic aesthetic. I saw a connection with the piece “Footsteps In Fog '' track three which I had written after the passing of Harold Budd in 2020, strangely at the time of writing the piece I felt it could possibly be part of an album at some point.

Track one “Submerged Cathedrals” came about rather quickly, some sonic experimentation led me to an almost human-like tonal quality that I played on the keys. This inspired me, adding more keys, piano, strings and deeper synths. The track conveys a mournful feel, like a once beautiful structure that is vividly remembered but is now lost forever in deep murky waters and its haunting sentiments sets the tone of the album.

Track Two “One Sanguine Day” seems to shift between a certain sombre tone and shifts with moments that shimmer with light and a sense of hope.

The title track “Tides Of Melancholy” feels like a soundtrack to a series of filmic snapshots from deep within a melancholic state of mind as it slowly builds and shifts to a layered tapestry of emotive tone and colour.

The closing-piece “Arc Of Light” was originally Written and recorded in late 2019. It’s somewhat Electro-Acoustic, Neoclassical and subtle synthesised elements with the eventual emergence of a jazz influenced rhythm and bass combo lifts the track almost as if the melancholic state of mind Has subsided and finishes the theme and concept of the album
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Mick Chillage

December 2021

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released January 3, 2022

Written, produced & mastered by Michael Gainfrord

Art & Design Tony Obr

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Before & After Silence is a platform
for Mick Chillage to release physical
media of various solo work Initially on CD.
The future may see collaborative projects & limited vinyl.

Inspired by Eno & Namlook,
the philosophy of the label is to release
material that is born from passion, inspiration
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