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          Night  Time  In   the   Owsla
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[1] A Box in the Middle of a Meadow       - 04:22
[2] Locked Tides                          - 08:31
[3] Tenebrous Beats the Hunters Heart     - 02:17
[4] Tin, On the Savannah                  - 02:51
[5] Nowhere Is a Cloud In the Distance    - 04:51
[6] Curved Like an Egg                    - 06:07
[7] Night Time In the Owsla               - 05:39

All sounds  by Sloum
Album Art   by Vincent Fugère 
Liner notes by Sloum

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This album  was  originally  released, in digital
form, in 2010 on the  now defunct Camomille Music
imprint.  Around 50 CD copies were made by  Sloum
and housed in hand stamped cardstock sleeves.

This album was, to my [Sloum] recollection,  made
in the bedroom of my apartment recording to a Pro
Tools  Mbox 2 interface.  Most of the sounds come
from  a  Fernandez  strat  style  guitar  running
through a number  of  effects  pedals including a
Boss DD-3,  an Akai Head Rush,  a  Behringer Slow
Volume, and a Behringer Digital Reverb. I believe
there was also a small Danelectro Delay pedal and
a few overdrive/distortion pedals. Everything was
run  into a small Vox  practice amp  (a cheap one
that cost  around $100 new)  that  had  a  spring 
reverb and tremolo effect available.  The amp was
mic'd  by  an SM-58 and  an inexpensive  Marshall
condenser microphone. The keyboard sounds (mostly
piano) were provided by an Ensoniq MR-76.  I also
did  a lot of field recording  in and around  the
apartment.  Most of the  field recording was done
with  a small  Zoom  handheld recorder.  Some was 
done with  the same Marshall  condenser mic  used
for the guitar.

I remember sitting in my living room with a bunch
of rubber stamps and hand stamping each letter on
each sleeve,  then layering a few other stamps to
create the rest of the art.

A month or two later I got in touch with Vincent,
who ran a digital label I very much liked,  about
releasing the digital version.  He  designed  the
cover art and released it on Camomille Music.

I had a  lot of fun  recording this.  My favorite
track  was  then,  and  still  is,  "Tin,  On the 
Savannah". Not sure why.

As some  listeners may notice:  the title  of the
album is a reference to the book  Watership Down,
which I had read shortly before recording this.

- Sloum (2020-03-19)

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