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This summer, NuNorthern Soul will release eight EPs as part of the Hints of Ibiza series, which comes with specially commissioned artwork from acclaimed artist Helen Sadler, whose colourful, abstract paintings and sketches are directly inspired by life on the Balearic Islands.
Two of these EPs, Sunsets on Larkin parts one and two, will showcase the work of Marshall Watson (real name Shane Watson), an experienced producer, sound designer, composer and mix engineer with a near 20-year career to his name.
Sunsets on Larkin (Part One) showcases Watson at his most atmospheric, emotive and colourful best, offering a quintet of cuts rich in dreamlike electronics, lilting melodies, enveloping pads, thoughtful instrumentation and languid, laidback grooves.
The EP opens with ‘Distant Horizon’, a slowly unfurling, sunset-ready ambient soundscape in which twinkling electronic melodies, flecks of glistening electric guitar and bubbly synthesizer sounds ride waves of dreamy, sun-baked chords. It’s little less than stunning all told.
Watson reaches for gentle beats and chunky, metronomic bass on ‘Avenue of Mystery’, wrapping reverb and delay-laden percussion in eyes-closed guitar solos, more intricately arranged melodies and warming musical textures, before wrapping bongo rhythms in chiming lead lines, neo-classical style ambient chords and toasty bass on the slow-burn evening delight that is ‘Dogwood’.
Those raised on the tactile, wide-eyed and meditative ambient house sounds of the early 1990s will enjoy ‘Spirit Fingers’, where pulsing, bilious synthesizer chords and yearning, slow-motion melodies stretch out atop an Italian dream house style bass-line and leisurely electro beats. They should also savour the EP’s impeccable closing cut, too. Marked out by positive chord progressions, dreamy synth sounds, shimmering guitar motifs and a chunky Balearic disco groove, ‘Door To The Sky’ provides a fittingly colourful and blissful finale to Watson’s first EP for NuNorthern Soul.
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This summer, NuNorthern Soul will release eight EPs as part of the Hints of Ibiza series, which comes with specially commissioned artwork from acclaimed artist Helen Sadler, whose colourful, abstract paintings and sketches are directly inspired by life on the Balearic Islands.
Two of these EPs, Sunsets on Larkin parts one and two, will showcase the work of Marshall Watson (real name Shane Watson), an experienced producer, sound designer, composer and mix engineer with a near 20-year career to his name.
Sunsets on Larkin (Part One) showcases Watson at his most atmospheric, emotive and colourful best, offering a quintet of cuts rich in dreamlike electronics, lilting melodies, enveloping pads, thoughtful instrumentation and languid, laidback grooves.
The EP opens with ‘Distant Horizon’, a slowly unfurling, sunset-ready ambient soundscape in which twinkling electronic melodies, flecks of glistening electric guitar and bubbly synthesizer sounds ride waves of dreamy, sun-baked chords. It’s little less than stunning all told.
Watson reaches for gentle beats and chunky, metronomic bass on ‘Avenue of Mystery’, wrapping reverb and delay-laden percussion in eyes-closed guitar solos, more intricately arranged melodies and warming musical textures, before wrapping bongo rhythms in chiming lead lines, neo-classical style ambient chords and toasty bass on the slow-burn evening delight that is ‘Dogwood’.
Those raised on the tactile, wide-eyed and meditative ambient house sounds of the early 1990s will enjoy ‘Spirit Fingers’, where pulsing, bilious synthesizer chords and yearning, slow-motion melodies stretch out atop an Italian dream house style bass-line and leisurely electro beats. They should also savour the EP’s impeccable closing cut, too. Marked out by positive chord progressions, dreamy synth sounds, shimmering guitar motifs and a chunky Balearic disco groove, ‘Door To The Sky’ provides a fittingly colourful and blissful finale to Watson’s first EP for NuNorthern Soul.
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