title: The Horse and Camel Stories
artist: Dale Berning
cat#: FLAU03
date: 23.Nov.2007
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 At the top of a carpeted staircase in a Georgian country home a blue
wooden rocking horse stands completely still in front of a closed window
with a view out onto the green hills and trees and fields beyond. A
child rides a stationary wooden horse and travels to faraway places
without ever leaving the security of his room. The movement of a rocking
horse is similar to that of a cradle, or a swing, or a lullaby. Its
about being quiet, its about balance, its about being at home and thinking
of elsewhere.
The Horse and Camel Stories is a collection of soundtracks by Dale Berning.
"vase" to "keyhole" were originally compossed for
Hiraki Sawa’s film Going Places Titting Down, commissioned by the Hayward
Gallery and Bloomberg London, for Waterloo Sunset, the Dan Graham Pavilion
at the Hayward in November 2004. It is a piece about make-believe journeys
to far-away places (at the tips of your fingers, between the cracks
in the floor at your feet, on the edge and behind the door, right here
where you are, close-by...). These tracks are released as The Horse
Stories on vinyl on Bo'Weavil Recordings in 2006.
The Horse and Camel Stories is included 5 bonus tracks. "flock"
is a soundtrack for a film by Stephanie Caw and the soundtrack for another
film by Hiraki Sawa: Trail, which was at the Yokohama Triennale 2005.
It is composed of 3 tracks entitled "walking a circle", "caravansérail"
and "a three-pane window". All beautiful compositions are
all variations on the same theme.
For the soundtrack dale used sounds belonging to the country house and
garden in which Sawa filmed - water running in the upstairs bathroom;
rain water dripping on the stones outside the kitchen door, sparkling
water in a glass on the table, the wind-chime and the clock and the
record player... And then the sounds of music boxes being played - one
elaborate antique music-box with bells the shape of bees and a miniature
hollow drum, and other simple music boxes, playing only one tune each,
tiny naked metallic combs and drums and handles.
At the core of all Dale Berning's sound work lies a deep interest in
ideas of aliveness, of space and the awareness of time passing, of breathing
and being still and of listening. And of the possibility of grace.
-tracklist-
01 Vase
02 Room
03 Swimming
04 Carpet
05 Shadow Moving
06 Another One
07 Piano
08 Fireworks
09 Beat
10 Jungle
11 Central Heating
12 Oven
13 Ship and Camel
14 Keyhole
15 Flock
16 Walking A Circle
17 Caravanséail
18 A Three-Pane Window
19 Cloud
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Reviews
the lulling electroacoustic treatments are often very quiet and highly
detailed.
- boomkat
twilight atmosphere and rose-tinted nostalgia - cyclic defrost
'The Horse and Camel Stories' has the man in full on twinkle mode.
All malfunctioning music boxes. It's like a big pretty lullabye. Dreamy
snoozeville ambient lushness.
- norman records
The Horse and Camel Stories is the kind of 12k-styled luminescence
that should strongly appeal to fans of Sawako and Colleen. - textura
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