Heat & Entropy, by Ben Chatwin

Heat & Entropy

by Ben Chatwin

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Michael Mueller An album suffused a beautiful kind of melancholia, Ben Chatwin continues to create music that renders the distinctions between acoustic, electronic and modern classical music essentially meaningless. .

Largely built around descending chord sequences, Chatwin's compositions explore the tension between action and consequence and the anxiety of doubt.

Staccato strings, percussive elements and many other details add colour and nuance.

A rewarding, immersive album tailor made for deep listening. Favorite track: Phantom Lights.

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	1.	Inflexion 01:52
	2.	Gravitational Bodies 05:06
	3.	Standing Waves 05:02
	4.	Phantom Lights 04:48
	5.	Oscillations 03:12
	6.	The Kraken 06:41
	7.	Surface Tension 04:17
	8.	Euclidean Plane 04:19
	9.	Corpseways 04:43

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“Dark, bare, beautiful soundscapes that mix analog electronics with classical sensibilities.” – Stereogum

“Peaks with gale-force electronics as the Scottish musician plays scintillating lines on hammer dulcimer in the most dramatic usage of the instrument since Nico’s “Evenings of Light”" – The Wire

“Bowed strings that shimmer and pizzicato ones that echo, grainy guitar textures rising up in waves and sprays, abstracted and distorted rumbles and thrums" - The Arts Desk

"Heat & Entropy is a stunning, inspired album that achieves the sort of balance implied by its title." - All Music

“A collage of atmospheric drones & fractal melodies” - Prog Magazine

“The kind of labyrinthine expedition that drapes a sense of wonderment upon the listener...” – Gold Flake Paint

“Spending time with Heat & Entropy feels like being treated to a rare beauty; like being locked inside an aquarium after lights out and witnessing a hidden world of bioluminescence, it’s a real treat.” - Record Collector

"If you were to draw a sonic Venn diagram you might find Heat & Entropy in an overlapping set alongside Vangelis, Steve Reich and maybe a fingernail of Mogwai. But in the end it remains its own thing, a thrilling enjambment of the ringing and the raging, the delicate and the distorted." - The Herald

"Chatwin’s exploration of electronics meets obscure stringed instruments such as the metallophone, diddley-bow and dulcitone is a rich, rewarding listen..." - Electronic Sound

"The album sounds like some scientific fusion happening in real time, like cells are exploding, regenerating, and melding together as life comes into existence." - Unrecorded

"The further on the album progresses the further away that last breath feels, but the surroundings grow more foreign and beautiful. ." - Raven Sings The Blues

"By drawing upon such disparate genres, he creates a widescreen vision that engulfs the mind like an encroaching wave." - A Closer Listen

"Luminescent pads and shooting star keys light up the track whilst menacing tones lurk like lamprey shadows stalking beneath the surface." - Echoes and Dust

"The music almost rips itself apart, but, as is always the case, a fragile ecosystem must take root if the music is to survive, progress and prosper. Somehow, the major knots and sharp twists find a way to coexist." - Fluid Radio

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released July 29, 2016

All music written and produced by Ben Chatwin (c) 2016.
Published by Cooking Vinyl Publishing.

Vocals on 'The Kraken' by Heidi Stewart.
Acoustic Guitar and Metallophone on 'Euclidean Plane' by Jordan Chatwin.
Recorded at The Vennel Studio in Queensferry, Scotland throughout 2015.

Photography by Jonathan Birch
Artwork and Design by Jordan Chatwin

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Ben Chatwin Scotland, UK

Ben Chatwin is an experimental electronic composer who works primarily with modular synths and other hardware to create densely layered soundscapes with sweeping emotional resonances. His music combines brutalist rhythms with drifting strings and synths, to create music that is at once abstract and cinematic. ... more

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