SPACE ON EARTH - SERIES

VI

<a href="https://manbartlett.bandcamp.com/album/space-on-earth-vi">SPACE ON EARTH VI by Man Bartlett</a>

Recorded between 2019 and 2023 this is the sixth release in a series of ambient, drone, devotional works.

Instruments: Yamaha EW-20, Moog Subharmonicon, Critter & Guitari Organelle M, Monochord, Hydrasynth Explorer.

Effects: Empress Effects Echosystem, EHX Talking Pedal, Chase Bliss Habit, MU-TRON Phasor III.

More details here.

V

<a href="http://manbartlett.bandcamp.com/album/space-on-earth-v">SPACE ON EARTH V by Man Bartlett</a>

Simple sounds for complicated times.

The fifth in a series, this release inhabits a long and slow space that oscillates between hope and a certain kind of existential sadness; that the great expanse of time is either empty or infinitely full. Or, just maybe, both of these states are paradoxically and simultaneously true.

…I imagine one might hear these sounds in an empty, post-apocalypse wellness center. But like, not in a creepy way; a way in which the residue of our psychic energy is coagulating as it prepares itself for the next journey of consciousness in the universe.

Some production notes: Many of the tracks (1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and both bonus tracks) were composed and recorded entirely on an iPhone, using Audiobus and a variety of plugin apps. The other tracks were recorded in my home studio with a minimal setup including tongue drum, Yamaha EW20, singing bowls, Korg Minilogue, vocals and a couple effects/looping pedals. All production was done by me.

Inspirations/for fans of: Hiroshi Yoshimura, Ana Roxanne, Michael Stearns, Ariel Kalma, Laraaji, frippertronics, Terry Riley, Steve Reich.

IV

<a href="https://manbartlett.bandcamp.com/album/space-on-earth-iv">SPACE ON EARTH IV by Man Bartlett</a>

spread your light.
available on cassette.
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Side 1: Korg Gadget with Tap Delay iOS apps (through Audiobus), vocals (TC Helicon VoiceTone Harmony-G XT, Empress Echosystem).
Side 2: Korg Gadget with Echo Pad, Crystalline, and Tap Delay iOS apps (through Audiobus).

Recording, production, and art design by Man.
Cassette manufacturing by Cryptic Carousel.

III

<a href="https://manbartlett.bandcamp.com/album/space-on-earth-iii">SPACE ON EARTH III by Man Bartlett</a>

Music for future aliens.

II

<a href="https://manbartlett.bandcamp.com/album/space-on-earth-ii">SPACE ON EARTH II by Man Bartlett</a>

The second volume in a series of drone studies, this release was timed to coincide with Donald Trump's inauguration, to act as an ambient salve.

I

<a href="https://manbartlett.bandcamp.com/album/space-on-earth">SPACE ON EARTH by Man Bartlett</a>

This is the first album from a body of work I've been hearing in my head since 2012. Around that time I was becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the nonstop onslaught of New York, so I started thinking about sound as a meditative and transformational medium; basically as a way to calm my eyeballs and counter-stimulate my brain.

The tracks included in the first volume of "SPACE ON EARTH" were sourced from a variety of places: "20160628" was recorded using Moog's Animoog iOS app; "MALI SADIO" includes a drawn-way-out clip of Kandia Kouyaté's "Badjourou" (which may or may not be about the legend of a friendship between a hippopotamus and a woman); and the last two tracks were sourced from telemetry recordings from NASA's Pegasus and one of the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform satellites. The audio was manipulated primarily using GRM Tools and Audacity's "Paulstretch" effect.