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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] 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 a proper album 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."[5]
Cover
The artwork depicts the sandstone cliffs in Rose Valley, Cappadocia, Turkey, with the photograph taken by Nick Meyer[6] 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."[7]
Tracks
Foil
- The "flanging sound" on the lead in "Foil" was done by Rob using EPS.[8]
Montreal
- "Montreal" uses the trigger flanger from the Quadraverb.[8]
- Sean noted that he had friends in the city of Montreal, which he dedicated this track to.[9]
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. [10]
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". [11]
Nine
- "Nine" was licensed out to Orange Telecommunications for an advertising campaign.[12] [13] 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. [14]
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"[15], 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) [16]
References
- ↑ "Autechre - Amber. Bleep.". Bleep, https://bleep.com/release/20366-autechre-amber. Accessed 20 May 2024.
- ↑ Q1119, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/
- ↑ Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005. "Amber was literally written in six months after Incunabula came out, really quickly,"
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ https://www.nickmeers.co.uk/pano/h96c57ec#h96c57ec
- ↑ "Amber". The Designers Republic, https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/amber. Accessed 20 May 2024.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 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."
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Q330, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
- ↑ 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/release/15195108-Autechre-Amber/image/SW1hZ2U6NDYwMTcwODA=
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/1302-Autechre-Amber