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[[File:Amber.jpg|alt=cover art|thumb|WARP25]]''Amber'' is the second album by [[Autechre]]. It was originally released on November 7th, 1994 on [[wikipedia:Warp_(record_label)|Warp Records]]. It was later repressed on vinyl in 2016, alongside ''[[Incunabula]]'', and [[Tri Repetae|''Tri Repetae'']].
[[Category:Album]]
{{Infobox
|title=Amber
|artist=[[Autechre]]
|cover=Amber.jpg
|date=7 November 1994
|label=Warp Records (WARP25)
|previous=[[Anti]]
|previous year=1994
|next=[[Garbage]]
|next year=1995
}}'''''Amber''''' is the second studio album by [[Autechre]] released on [https://warp.net/ Warp Records]. It was originally released on November 7th, 1994,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Autechre - Amber.  Bleep.|website=Bleep|link=https://bleep.com/release/20366-autechre-amber|accessdate=20 May 2024}}</ref> then later repressed on vinyl in 2016, alongside ''[[Incunabula]]'', and [[Tri Repetae|''Tri Repetae'']].


[[Sean Booth]] has later recounted in interviews that Amber was “genuinely the first album” they released on Warp Records, and that their previous, ''Incunabula'', was “more of a compilation of old material”.
== History ==
Much of ''Amber'' had individuals tracks completed within a day.<ref>{{Cite AAA doc|1119}}</ref> The album was compiled from tracks made over the span of a year<ref name=":0">https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/</ref> with the final record being completed only 6 months after the release of ''[[Incunabula]]''.<ref>{{Cite interview|page=Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005|quote=Amber was literally written in six months after Incunabula came out, really quickly,}}</ref> Sean noted that ''Amber'' felt more like their first proper album<ref>https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/autechre</ref> compared to ''Incunabula'' which was more “a collection of tracks than an album”.<ref name=":0" />
 
Some equipment used for ''Amber'' included "a 202, a Juno, a sampler and a couple of sequencers, and a Korg MS-10, with a lot of routing, and reconfiguring and messing about."<ref>{{Cite interview|page=Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005|quote=Amber was done on nothing -- a 202, a Juno, a sampler and a couple of sequencers, and a Korg MS-10, with a lot of routing, and reconfiguring and messing about.}}</ref> <!-- however since then, he did call it cheesy, before again saying that the first two were just making it like warp's vision
 
also I'm really cautious on making it seem like incunabula or amber sucks, because the history is a BIT biased toward that  -->
 
=== Cover ===
The artwork depicts the sandstone cliffs in Rose Valley, [[wikipedia:Cappadocia|Cappadocia]], Turkey, with the photograph taken by Nick Meyer<ref>https://www.nickmeers.co.uk/pano/h96c57ec#h96c57ec</ref> and artwork designed by The Designers Republic. ''Amber'' is the only album from Autechre to have a nearly unedited photograph as the cover art, with Ian Anderson noting that "the only retouching we did was at the edges, where we didn't have the full width, but there's no retouching in terms of colouration."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amber|link=https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/amber|website=The Designers Republic|accessdate=20 May 2024}}</ref>
 
== Tracks ==
 
=== Foil ===
 
* The "flanging sound" on the lead in "Foil" was done by Rob using EPS.<ref name=":1">{{Cite interview|page=Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022|quote='''How is the flanging sound in the first track of Amber, Foil, made?''' I think that's EPS. Rob did that. I think it's EPS. If you mean the [imitates lead sound effect], that bit, I think that's EPS. Yeah, I think it's, but it might not be, ‘cause the one in Montreal, that's just after it, is the trigger flange in the Quadraverb. So we were really into those type of effects at the time, but I think it's actually, I don't think it's a flanger. I think it's the chorus in the EPS, but I'm not totally hundred percent sure about that. Foil I mean.}}</ref><!-- Sean doubts whether it was a flanger or chrous -->
 
=== Montreal ===
 
* "Montreal" uses the trigger flanger from the Quadraverb.<ref name=":1" />
* Sean noted that he had friends in the city of Montreal, which he dedicated this track to.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|link=https://lonelymachines.org/the-autechre-faq-v-199/|author=Ruud, Knut Andreas|website=LonelyMachines|date=December 2000|title=The _alt.music.autechre_ FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) version 1.15|accessdate=20 May 2024}}</ref>
 
=== Silverside ===
 
* An alternative version of "Silverside" was released on a [https://www.discogs.com/release/748632-Various-FMCD-January-1995 Future Magazine CD Compilation] titled "[[List of Rarities#Silversub|Silversub]]"
* The track is named after the [[wikipedia:Atheriniformes|fish species]].
 
=== Slip ===
 
=== Glitch ===
 
* Uses the Roland MC-202 and Quadraverb. <ref>{{Cite AAA doc|330}}</ref>
 
=== Piezo ===
 
* One of the samples on "Piezo" are of Autechre discussing how the track should be arranged, "micd up really quiet through a chrous all the way through it". <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020816104848/http://www.autechre.nu/cgi-bin/newspro/news.cgi?newsid1018136565,21609,#:~:text=no%20sorry.%20there%20is%20the%20sound%20of%20us%20discussing%20how%20we%20should%20arrange%20the%20track%20though.%20micd%20up%20really%20quiet%20through%20a%20chorus%20all%20the%20way%20through%20it. https://web.archive.org/web/20020816104848/http://www.autechre.nu/cgi-bin/newspro/news.cgi?newsid1018136565,21609,#:~:text=no%20sorry.%20there%20is%20the%20sound%20of%20us%20discussing%20how%20we%20should%20arrange%20the%20track%20though.%20micd%20up%20really%20quiet%20through%20a%20chorus%20all%20the%20way%20through%20it.]</ref>
 
=== Nine ===
 
* "Nine" was licensed out to Orange Telecommunications for an advertising campaign.<!-- someone pls find this  --><ref>https://forum.watmm.com/topic/78185-autechre-score-the-soundtrack-to-an-advert/?do=findComment&comment=1973748</ref> <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ambientmusic/comments/z5zeqn/comment/j11xpnr/</ref> When Autechre went to watch Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace<!-- the only star wars movie that could come out after 1994's Amber and before 2001 when the interview was held was the Phantom Menace in 1999. --> in theatres, they discovered in the screening that Orange was airing the ad with "Nine" before every Star Wars screening in England. <ref>{{Cite interview|page=Dancing in the Dark, 2001|quote=Autechre is extremely selective when allowing their music to be used onscreen. Yet one track licensed for an ad for mega-corp Orange Telecommunications took them by surprise one night at the movies. "We knew they were going to use it, but we didn't know it would be aired directly before every Star Wars screening in England," recalls Brown. "We thought everybody in the cinema was looking at us. Of course, they had no idea who we were, but it was clearly the weirdest thing they'd ever heard."}}</ref>
 
=== Further ===
 
=== Yulquen ===
 
* The IATA code for the Montréal–Trudeau International Airport is YUL. Looking at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel (also in Montreal) gives the code as YUL QUEN
 
=== Nil ===
 
=== Teartear ===
 
* In the same vein as "[[Incunabula#Windwind|Windwind]]", the word "tear" also has two different pronunciations.
* On the back cover of Amber, it notes that "Teartear is for Gerrard O'Hara"<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/15195108-Autechre-Amber/image/SW1hZ2U6NDYwMTcwODA=</ref>, one of the founders of Skam Records. His voice can also be heard on the track "The Egg" <!-- is this needed? probably moved -->


== Tracklist ==
== Tracklist ==
{| class="wikitable"
{{Tracklist|list=
|+
{{tl track|number=1|title=Foil|length=6:05}}
!
{{tl track|number=2|title=Montreal|length=7:16}}
!Title
{{tl track|number=3|title=Silverside|length=5:31}}
!Length
{{tl track|number=4|title=Slip|length=6:21}}
|-
{{tl track|number=5|title=Glitch|length=6:16}}
|1
{{tl track|number=6|title=Piezo|length=8:01}}
|Foil
{{tl track|number=7|title=Nine|length=3:40}}
|6:05
{{tl track|number=8|title=Further|length=10:07}}
|-
{{tl track|number=9|title=Yulquen|length=6:37}}
|2
{{tl track|number=10|title=Nil|length=7:49}}
|Montreal
{{tl track|number=11|title=Teartear|length=6:46}}
|7:16
{{tl finaltime|time=1:14:27}}
|-
}}
|3
 
|Silverside
== Links ==
|5:31
 
|-
* [https://autechre.warp.net/release/202836-autechre-amber AE_STORE]
|4
* [https://music.apple.com/us/album/amber/281074742 Apple Music]
|Slip
* [https://autechre.bandcamp.com/album/amber Bandcamp]
|6:21
* [https://bleep.com/release/20366-autechre-amber Bleep]
|-
* [https://www.discogs.com/master/1302-Autechre-Amber Discogs]
|5
* [https://soundcloud.com/autechreofficial/sets/amber-384961498 Soundcloud]
|Glitch
* [https://open.spotify.com/album/1brMCJ3wB9KNzAANIKJf32 Spotify]
|6:16
 
|-
== Credits ==
|6
|Piezo
|8:01
|-
|7
|Nine
|3:40
|-
|8
|Further
|10:07
|-
|9
|Yulquen
|6:37
|-
|10
|Nil
|7:49
|-
|11
|Teartear
|6:46
|-
|
|Total
|1:14:27
|}


== Trivia ==
* [[Autechre]] (production)
* [[Rob Brown]] (writer)
* [[Sean Booth]] (writer)
* [[The Designers Republic]] (design) <ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/1302-Autechre-Amber</ref>


* Amber is the only album to have a photograph as the cover art.
== References ==
<references />

Latest revision as of 12:38, 22 October 2024

Amber

Amber.jpg

Artist Autechre
Released 7 November 1994
Label Warp Records (WARP25)
Anti
(1994) 		Amber Garbage
(1995)

Amber is the second studio album by Autechre released on Warp Records. It was originally released on November 7th, 1994,[1] then later repressed on vinyl in 2016, alongside Incunabula, and Tri Repetae.

History

Much of Amber had individuals tracks completed within a day.[2] The album was compiled from tracks made over the span of a year[3] with the final record being completed only 6 months after the release of Incunabula.[4] Sean noted that Amber felt more like their first proper album[5] compared to Incunabula which was more “a collection of tracks than an album”.[3]

Some equipment used for Amber included "a 202, a Juno, a sampler and a couple of sequencers, and a Korg MS-10, with a lot of routing, and reconfiguring and messing about."[6]

Cover

The artwork depicts the sandstone cliffs in Rose Valley, Cappadocia, Turkey, with the photograph taken by Nick Meyer[7] and artwork designed by The Designers Republic. Amber is the only album from Autechre to have a nearly unedited photograph as the cover art, with Ian Anderson noting that "the only retouching we did was at the edges, where we didn't have the full width, but there's no retouching in terms of colouration."[8]

Tracks

Foil

  • The "flanging sound" on the lead in "Foil" was done by Rob using EPS.[9]

Montreal

  • "Montreal" uses the trigger flanger from the Quadraverb.[9]
  • Sean noted that he had friends in the city of Montreal, which he dedicated this track to.[10]

Silverside

Slip

Glitch

  • Uses the Roland MC-202 and Quadraverb. [11]

Piezo

  • One of the samples on "Piezo" are of Autechre discussing how the track should be arranged, "micd up really quiet through a chrous all the way through it". [12]

Nine

  • "Nine" was licensed out to Orange Telecommunications for an advertising campaign.[13] [14] When Autechre went to watch Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in theatres, they discovered in the screening that Orange was airing the ad with "Nine" before every Star Wars screening in England. [15]

Further

Yulquen

  • The IATA code for the Montréal–Trudeau International Airport is YUL. Looking at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel (also in Montreal) gives the code as YUL QUEN

Nil

Teartear

  • In the same vein as "Windwind", the word "tear" also has two different pronunciations.
  • On the back cover of Amber, it notes that "Teartear is for Gerrard O'Hara"[16], one of the founders of Skam Records. His voice can also be heard on the track "The Egg"

Tracklist

# Title Length
1 Foil 6:05
2 Montreal 7:16
3 Silverside 5:31
4 Slip 6:21
5 Glitch 6:16
6 Piezo 8:01
7 Nine 3:40
8 Further 10:07
9 Yulquen 6:37
10 Nil 7:49
11 Teartear 6:46
Total 1:14:27

Links

Credits

References

  1. ↑ "Autechre - Amber. Bleep.". Bleep, https://bleep.com/release/20366-autechre-amber. Accessed 20 May 2024.
  2. ↑ Q1119, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/
  4. ↑ Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005. "Amber was literally written in six months after Incunabula came out, really quickly,"
  5. ↑ https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/autechre
  6. ↑ Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005. "Amber was done on nothing -- a 202, a Juno, a sampler and a couple of sequencers, and a Korg MS-10, with a lot of routing, and reconfiguring and messing about."
  7. ↑ https://www.nickmeers.co.uk/pano/h96c57ec#h96c57ec
  8. ↑ "Amber". The Designers Republic, https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/amber. Accessed 20 May 2024.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "How is the flanging sound in the first track of Amber, Foil, made? I think that's EPS. Rob did that. I think it's EPS. If you mean the [imitates lead sound effect], that bit, I think that's EPS. Yeah, I think it's, but it might not be, ‘cause the one in Montreal, that's just after it, is the trigger flange in the Quadraverb. So we were really into those type of effects at the time, but I think it's actually, I don't think it's a flanger. I think it's the chorus in the EPS, but I'm not totally hundred percent sure about that. Foil I mean."
  10. ↑ Ruud, Knut Andreas. "The _alt.music.autechre_ FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) version 1.15". LonelyMachines, December 2000, https://lonelymachines.org/the-autechre-faq-v-199/. Accessed 20 May 2024.
  11. ↑ Q330, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020816104848/http://www.autechre.nu/cgi-bin/newspro/news.cgi?newsid1018136565,21609,#:~:text=no%20sorry.%20there%20is%20the%20sound%20of%20us%20discussing%20how%20we%20should%20arrange%20the%20track%20though.%20micd%20up%20really%20quiet%20through%20a%20chorus%20all%20the%20way%20through%20it.
  13. ↑ https://forum.watmm.com/topic/78185-autechre-score-the-soundtrack-to-an-advert/?do=findComment&comment=1973748
  14. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/ambientmusic/comments/z5zeqn/comment/j11xpnr/
  15. ↑ Dancing in the Dark, 2001. "Autechre is extremely selective when allowing their music to be used onscreen. Yet one track licensed for an ad for mega-corp Orange Telecommunications took them by surprise one night at the movies. "We knew they were going to use it, but we didn't know it would be aired directly before every Star Wars screening in England," recalls Brown. "We thought everybody in the cinema was looking at us. Of course, they had no idea who we were, but it was clearly the weirdest thing they'd ever heard.""
  16. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/15195108-Autechre-Amber/image/SW1hZ2U6NDYwMTcwODA=
  17. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/1302-Autechre-Amber
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