qd34 Pye Corner Audio - Lake Deep Memory - out now

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Hi friends - hope all good :)

Extremely happy to share the latest interpretation of quiet details from a leading protagonist of widescreen dystopian electronica, Martin Jenkins, here as Pye Corner Audio.

Out now on digital and limited CD with long-form edition, six panel digipack and fine art print. Digital half price until 23rd May.

Listening Party tomorrow Thursday 15th May 19:00 UK time - hope you can join us - free and all welcome x

From his first release, the Pye Corner Audio project stamped itself as a firm favourite - with releases on Further Records, Ghost Box, Sonic Cathedral, Boomkat Editions, Lapsus and many others - the perfect meeting of cinematic synth melodics, dusky atmospherics and drum machine workouts, carved out a niche all of its own.

Lake Deep Memory is Pye Corner Audio at its most beguiling and polychromatic - inspired by a trip to Lake Atitlan in Guatemala where he played a festival in 2024, you can feel the awe of the volcanic landscape in the vastness and ethereal soundscapes across the album.

It’s a place that’s spiritually important to the local people, and you can feel how some of this influence made its way into the music - there’s an intangible, almost ritualistic, sensation created by the organic nature of the instrumentation - light shifts to dark, pressure gives way to weightlessness.

The Pye Corner Audio trademark synth-mastery is fully present, combined with field recordings he took while experiencing this most sacred of places. Together, they truly create a universe of powerful and emotive vistas - a beautiful place that has the potential to elicit endless imagery in the listeners’ mind’s-eye.As he says:

I’ve always been inspired by the noises and submerged sounds that a lot of artists try to eradicate, such as noise, hums and hiss. Those are the quiet details that I bring to the foreground.

From soaring passages of wondrous harmonic density, to highly textural and psychedelic movements - this is a completely immersive and mesmerising journey through metaphysical dreams - a stunning journey from a brilliantly talented and expressive artist.

Huge thanks to Martin for being part of the series.

The artwork was made as always influenced by the music and idea behind the album - originating from a photo from Martin (taken at Lake Atitlan) which was then captured with analogue photography and processed here at quiet details studios.

As usual, the album is presented on the physical edition, a custom six-panel digipack with a separate fine art print too.

The CD also has a special long-form continuous mix of the album, created by the artist and representing the music in its purest form.

Credits:

Music by Pye Corner Audio

Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios

Artwork by quiet details in collaboration with Pye Corner Audio

Design by quiet details

Also out today is gorgeous and serene qd28 Wil Bolton second run - inspired by travelling through South Korea and full of sounds collected along the way. Don’t sleep if you want!