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Means of Knowing

by Hotel Neon

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polinos
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polinos Masterful blend af grainy, softly crackling, hypnotizingly hissing noise, field recordings and electronics embedded in slowly enfolding drones that creates several epiphanic moments along the ascending road.
BVCVLEI
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BVCVLEI I listened to this for 3 days in a row, at the office. As simple as that. I didn't need to switch to anything else.
rikm
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rikm Over the course of their career, Hotel Neon has created an impressive body of exceptional work, a catalog of emotionally resonant ambience that immediately connects with the listener. "Means of Knowing" is a fine example of that work, a beautiful collection of ambient tracks that are both inspired and inspiring.

Highly recommended...
In the Treeeees
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In the Treeeees Music for sun dust and the breeze among the leaves. Mountain air in your lungs. The slow growth of lichen on crumbling granite. Music full of meaning and texture. Hotel Neon is one of the best ambient outfits around today. Favorite track: Essential Nature.
Rindenberg
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Rindenberg Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty. And never any boredom! Instead this abundant, pouring noise of many springs in your ears. (Rumi)
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Referent 10:30
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Lift 10:19
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Roke 05:45
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Torrents 09:22
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Shadow Sites 09:18
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Onward 06:39

about

“Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world…walking is not the action by which one arrives at knowledge; it is itself the means of knowing.”

“Means of Knowing” is an exchange with the world, an effort to know it and ourselves more deeply. Like a long walk on a favorite path and the introspection and observation that such a journey evokes, it is an album full of constantly evolving interplay between natural and imagined sound sources. Tactile sounds from the physical world combine with textured, processed synthesis to evoke the depth of experience available to us every day.

Additional physical copies released on Archives: archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/means-of-knowing

credits

released May 14, 2018

Written and recorded by Hotel Neon
Additional mixing by Matt Kidd / slowmeadow.com
Mastering by Rafael Anton Irisarri / blackknollstudio.com
Vocals in 'Referent' and 'Unseen Landscapes' by Lacey Tasselmyer
Artwork by Steven Kemner / stevenkemner.com
Photography by Alexander Kopatz / go70north.com

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