The Garden is Full of Metal, by Robin Rimbaud

The Garden is Full of Metal

by Robin Rimbaud

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Mizar Alcor There is nothing quite like Scanner. After listening to Delivery, I blindly ordered this CD at a local records shop back in the day. I came across something different, something I thought I understood but didn't... what it truly meant to create a soundscape, a true sound portrait of emotion. It changed my life, and my opinions of music forever. Favorite track: Experience.

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1.	Open 05:08	buy track
2.	Experience 07:49	buy track
3.	Drop 04:56	buy track
4.	Waterbrush 03:27	buy track
5.	Their Own Space 07:03	buy track
6.	Fravaer 07:44	buy track
7.	Roga Rugosa 05:58	buy track
8.	A Walk Through St James 03:22	buy track
9.	Always Fading: Sedum Acre 02:12	buy track
10.	Circles of Stone 04:22	buy track
11.	Translucence 02:33	buy track
12.	I Waited a Lifetime 03:18	buy track
13.	Garden Redux 05:34	buy track

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Robin Rimbaud was both a friend and collaborator over the years and this CD is his tribute to an important figure in both his life and others'. Using recordings of Jarman's voice as well as location recordings around his home, he creates a graceful and delicate sculpture in sound. This is a close friend's tribute, backed by a profound understanding of the filmmaker's sense of intimacy, atmosphere and drama.

2014 - on the 20th anniversary of the passing of Derek Jarman and this reissue Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) reviewed many of the materials in his archive and discovered four selections that were originally off the release but feel now that they offer another viewing.

"This is a creative mind and man I still miss, but who thankfully and finally seems to be receiving the accolation he should have received long ago." (Robin Rimbaud)

"A beautiful and fragile tapestry. Reflective, tactile and emotional."The Wire

"This music operates a certain unsettling, eerie magic on the listener, sneaking out of the speakers surreptitiously and filling the room like a sudden burst of sunlight. Even those unaware of Jarman's flicks will be moved." NME

This album is a collection of memories taking recordings from spaces that Jarman inhabited or experienced - from the walk to the sea's edge from his cottage in Dungeness through to the roar of London congestion around his Charing Cross flat - Robin has attempted to create a fluid, elegiac sound portrait, a form of resonant landscape painting that weaves through recordings of Jarman's own voice. Robin applied the term 'sound polaroids' to describe these intimate, isolated, improvised moments, the same way a polaroid camera captures an image for a moment, almost dispoable, forgotten, a tiny epiphany that dwells within but surfaces at unexpetcetd triggers.
The majority of the sound here is abstracted and processed through modest means, cutting, stretching and editing tape - acoustic data like this once digitised dissolves into a form that one can mould and re-shape in an almost scultural manner.

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released May 5, 1997

Written and produced by Robin Rimbaud
Voice by Derek Jarman

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Scanner London, UK

Robin Rimbaud - Scanner is an artist and composer working in London. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. ... more

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