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The Air Is Thick With Snow

by Johann Kloos

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A album comprised of salvaged recordings, some very early ones, from when I was in school in the late 70s, into the 80s and a couple of very recent recordings I thought fitted the mood. I wanted to put them together as one recording, not individual tracks, like a mixtape, to create a set of shifting moods and atmospheres. It includes a couple of songs, the first being "Gloo Is Peace" which was recorded at school in 1978 on cassette, and followed later by "Crows" recorded at the Crypt, Stevenage in 1980, with Paul Bamlett on bass and drums, and Duncan Laine on Korg MS10 synthesiser. The last but one segment is a piano piece recorded at Cheops Studio in 1983, done at the end of the session, titled as "Spacey Piano." Hope you find a time and space to enjoy it.

1. Radio noise and guitar recorded on cassette circa 1976.
2. Guitar and Soundmaster drum machine going through a Watkins Copycat, recorded 1987. Recently overdubbed bass.
3. Casiotone MT31 "banjo" setting going through the Watkins, 1987.
4. A recent recording, 2013, a spacey instrumental.
5. Concrete Music. Casiotone MT31 put through my Korg MS10 and Eventide Harmoniser. 1988
6. Recent recording, made 2013.
7. Gloo Is Peace, recorded on cassette in Room 34 at the Boys High School, Bishops Stortford, 1978.
8. Glockenspiel and guitar, recorded 1980.
9. Crows. Recorded at the Crypt, Stevenage 1980.
10. Guitar bridge sounds and harmonics.
11. Stargazing. Demo recorded in late 80s.
12. "Spacey Piano." Recorded at Cheops Studio, Cambridge 1983.

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released December 14, 2014

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Johann Kloos has been making music for several years as a solo artist and in several bands in Herts/Essex: Bankers Son's Daughters, the Decibels, Some People Are Asleep, Ha Ha Said The Car The Willy Brandt Co-op and Erick. In Salford/Manchester: The Sandells, KP2, The Bus Pass and Weimar-UK Band,

He has contributed substantially to critically acclaimed releases by Erick, Sandells and Weimar. ... more

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