Exploration And Ascent

by Northcape

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Nate A background soundtrack to the inner peace I struggle to centralize. Many of these tracks are familiar, as Groove Salad regularly plays them. Thank you for creating this! Favorite track: Mackerel Sky.

Giles P Croft Perfect downtempo electronica. Melodic, thoughtful, reflective… just beautiful. An album in the true sense – listen to it from one end to the other and imagine your journey through the mountains. Wonderful. Favorite track: Mackerel Sky.

Anton Very much in the tradition of Boards of Canada, but a bit more straightforward and less experimental. As such it is less ambitious as well, but it's still a very good warm, dreamy album. Favorite track: Cleaning The Glass.

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1.	Cleaning The Glass 03:39	buy track
2.	Trailhead 04:07	buy track
3.	Potentilla 06:29	buy track
4.	The First Crossing Of The Watershed 08:01	buy track
5.	Arrive Ruttledge Col 06:28	buy track
6.	Another Endless Morning (In The Sanctuary) 05:10	buy track
7.	Meltwater 02:28	buy track
8.	High Mountain Record 05:02	buy track
9.	Mackerel Sky 06:09	buy track
10.	Last View 02:14	buy track
11.	Carbon 02:41	buy track

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released May 14, 2013

SSS051
Written and produced by Alastair Brown
Mastered by Audible Oddities
Sleeve design by Northcape

Track 2 includes voice sample by Ursula Schrenk (Germany)

Track 6 includes sample of unknown language (Okinawa, Japan) by Travis Morgan (www.travisjmorgan.com), gate squeaking by Koops and mountain rainy day room tone (Colorado, USA) by Kristian Boruff (www.krisboruff.com)

Track 8 includes sample of shells wind chime by Paddy Uglow (www.CreativeMedia.org.uk)

Track 9 includes sample of wind in trees by Klankbeeld

All listed samples from freesound.org

℗ 2013 Sun Sea Sky Productions © 2013 Northcape

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Northcape England, UK

Northcape make a distinctively personal and human-sounding form of downtempo electronic music that draws elements from ambient, IDM and various other genres. It combines ambience and depth with a strong sense of melody, and, despite its melancholic moments, a fundamental optimism. ... more

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