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Building the Cathedral

sounds that will take you to other worlds

About Me

When I was a child my grandma had an old upright piano, I found that if I stood on the peddle and played the two lowest notes on the keyboard, first one and then the other, between those two notes are other sounds resonating in-between and through the gross stuff of the bass notes. That resonance, those sounds could take me to other worlds like no other thing could. Well that’s what Building The Cathedral Sounds like (only now with more notes)


I have a review in Bad Acid at www.myspace.com/badacidmagazine
Ok I now have a web site buildingthecathedral.com I have a download section where I have provide the albums I currently have. This is a donation based system So feel free to point your browsers at it and have a look Feel free to provide any feed back here on myspace regarding the site or the musicas of 18 may 2008 i have uploaded a streaming version of the new cd "A gathering of dark angels" to my website
Building The Cathedral Available from CDbaby

Building The Cathedral Available from Itunes

Under The Aurora Available from CDbaby
Under The Aurora Available from Itunes


12 moons Available from CDbaby
12 moons Available from Itunes

For most of my life I have lived in an area dedicated to heavy industry of one kind or another, mines, steel mills, wire factory’s and the trains on which I used to work. So the sound of metal screaming crashing, banging, sometimes being destroyed sometimes being turned into something new. The heavy engines’ moving coal and people around was a major part of my life. Then a day came when I heard for what seemed like first time the beauty of all this sound. For a while it sounded like I was in some vast cathedral, which was constantly under construction.

I decide to capture some of what I heard that day in these musical constructions, by using loops, synthesizes and samples all controlled by a guitar synth, interspersed in heavily distorted electric guitar

Why loops, well because engines move in circles it seemed to be natural for the project but I added some spice to this by arranging the loops not to trigger on a known metre and this added an element of surprise (well surprise to me) to the tracks and took them into strange directions.

I have always been better at expressing myself on the guitar than keyboard and to find how far midi guitars have come since I last looked to get one came as a complete surprise. With the ability to attach the guitar to a computer opens up a whole world of possibilities in music creation.

Well The second CD is out
Beautiful long evolving guitar synth loops and samples with sci-fi flavour this time.
This, the second project CD extends my work in the area of loops and sample but this time I have created huge developing sounds to live in my cathedral environment.

Oh and if anyone’s wondering,

I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in Finland!

I live about 70km north of Lahti and have come to accept –20 deg c. as a civilised temperature.




Building The Cathedral can also be found at www.betarecords.com/building.the.cathedral

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/21/2007
Band Website: buildingthecathedral.com
Band Members: Wrath Racasan - Ambient/loop based guitar.
Influences: Brian eno Robert fripp Harold budd Carl Orff juno reactor john fox Durutti Column Boards of Canada Trey Gunn Porcupine tree Bill Nelson Sigur Ros Mogwai Solar Fields Ghostfriend Autechre Portishead Plaid Ulrich Schnauss Lfo David torn Roedelius Cluster Harmonia Mick karn Steve Roach Porcupine tree Philip Glass Arvo part Stephan Micus Tape looping, Quantum Mechanics, Electronic Music, Musique Concrete,ethereal Sounds, Voices, Musique Concrete, Found Sounds Sound Sculpture delia darbishire elend Coil Tholen ASMOROD lustmord KARJALAN SISSIT Paul Mercer Cyclic Law COLD SPRING SUN RA
Sounds Like: Hauntingly beautiful synthetic guitar, loops and samples. Frippertronics. Soundscapes. Tape looping, Quantum Mechanics, Electronic Music, Musique Concrete,ethereal Sounds, Voices, Musique Concrete, Found Sounds, space, the cosmos, Nature sounds & noise, the sounds of water and the sea soundscapes, beatless, loops, drone, atmospheric, experimental, dark ambient, ambient , Sound Sculpture, Steven Halpern
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Steal This Film II

Let me say from the start I offer this up for debate that I believe in file sharing (information/media sharing). I have just watched "Steal This Film II" and I agree with every word said in this doc...
Posted by Building the Cathedral on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:13:00 PST

Merle Noir and 12 moons

Ok so a busy day finishing stuff off First} the Merle Noir pod cast is done so if you feel you need to listen to two old Yorkshire men chunter on about stuff give that a go Here http://www.myspace...
Posted by Building the Cathedral on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:21:00 PST

Idle speculation

I don't often get the chance to write much and anyone who has emailed my will tell you im slow at responding, this is mainly due to being dyslexic (I can read ok but im blind to what I write) so pleas...
Posted by Building the Cathedral on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:30:00 PST