artwork [digital environmental images] The Hirta Archive
artwork [visual communication] Matt Pyke
compiled by [series editor], other [identity], design Robert H. King
painting Sheila S.
photography by Dallas Simpson
photography by Emma O'Bong
photography by Lee Hills
photography by Linda Muddiman
photography by Robin Rimbaud
Solar is a series of music travelogues (a journal in sound) charting the ever changing cross cultural currents in music's textural paths. Electroacoustics, sound sculptors, field recordings, traditional percussion, self built instruments, fourth world and electronic experimentation, genres and distinctions have become blurred reference points. This edition features over 58 minutes of exclusive and specially recorded material and includes an 18 panel guide combining information on the contributors with captured images.

Track 5 - live location Binarual recording - single take - no rehearsal; improvisation using found materials, recorded at Colwick Park, Nottingham 17/3/97
Track 6 - recorded at Westheath Studios, London

Manufactured in the USA.

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Barcode: 75307240221
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