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== History == | == History == | ||
Much of Amber had individuals tracks completed within a day, <ref>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit#gid=0&range=D1119</ref> but the entire album was slowly compiled over a year.<ref name=":0">https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/</ref> Sean noted that ''Amber'' felt more like a proper album rather than ''[[Incunabula]]'' which was more “a collection of tracks than an album”.<ref name=":0" /> <!-- however since then, he did call it cheesy, before again saying that the first two were just making it like warp's vision | Much of ''Amber'' had individuals tracks completed within a day,<ref>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit#gid=0&range=D1119</ref> but the entire album was slowly compiled over a year.<ref name=":0">https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/</ref> Sean noted that ''Amber'' felt more like a proper album rather than ''[[Incunabula]]'' which was more “a collection of tracks than an album”.<ref name=":0" /> <!-- 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 --> | also I'm really cautious on making it seem like incunabula or amber sucks, because the history is a BIT biased toward that --> | ||
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 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>https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/amber</ref> | 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>https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/amber</ref> | ||
== Tracks == | == Tracks == | ||
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=== Nine === | === 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> | * "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 === | === Further === | ||
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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] but the entire album was slowly compiled over a year.[3] Sean noted that Amber felt more like a proper album rather than Incunabula which was more “a collection of tracks than an album”.[3]
The artwork depicts the sandstone cliffs in Rose Valley, Cappadocia, Turkey, with the photograph taken by Nick Meyer [4] 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."[5]
Tracks
Foil
- The "flanging sound" on the lead in "Foil" was done by Rob using EPS. [6]
Montreal
- "Montreal" uses the trigger flanger from the Quadraverb. [7]
Silverside
- An alternative version of "Silverside" was released on a Future Magazine CD Compilation titled "Silversub"
- The track is named after the fish species.
Slip
Glitch
- Uses the Roland MC-202 and Quadraverb. [8]
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". [9]
Nine
- "Nine" was licensed out to Orange Telecommunications for an advertising campaign.[10] [11] 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. [12]
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.
- According to the (minimal) liner notes, this track was made in tribute to Gerard O'Hara, 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
- Autechre (production)
- Rob Brown (writer)
- Sean Booth (writer)
- The Designers Republic (design) [13]
References
- ↑ https://bleep.com/release/20366-autechre-amber
- ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit#gid=0&range=D1119
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/
- ↑ https://www.nickmeers.co.uk/pano/h96c57ec#h96c57ec
- ↑ https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/amber
- ↑ https://aepages.org/wiki/Sean_Twitch_AMA,_June_2022#:~:text=Amber%2C%20Foil%2C%20made%3F%E2%80%9D-,I%20think%20that%27s%20EPS.,-Rob%20did%20that
- ↑ https://aepages.org/wiki/Sean_Twitch_AMA,_June_2022#:~:text=%E2%80%98cause%20the%20one%20in%20Montreal%2C%20that%27s%20just%20after%20it%2C%20is%20the%20trigger%20flange%20in%20the%20Quadraverb.
- ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit#gid=0&range=D330
- ↑ 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://forum.watmm.com/topic/78185-autechre-score-the-soundtrack-to-an-advert/?do=findComment&comment=1973748
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/ambientmusic/comments/z5zeqn/comment/j11xpnr/
- ↑ 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.""
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/1302-Autechre-Amber