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synoneiro

by Jim Tetlow

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Inkdance 08:57
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Virtual Waterphone 01:42
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Clockwork 08:49
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Caress the Cell 06:25
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The Duality Train 06:13
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Psyche's Masquerade 07:46
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Lament 04:29
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Oblique20 05:46
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Mimas16 04:02
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12506 01:17
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11.
Passage 05:33
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about

I began using 'synoneiro' as an online name 15 years or so ago. An abstract word I made up from the first few letters of each of my first two released albums, 'Synapse' and 'Oneiromancer' (although the music on those albums, occupying space somewhere in the dark isolationist/noise genres, is very different from this one). It's always been hard for people to spell but it has a certain understated elegance. A Greek acquaintance also liked the name, saying it would approximate pidgin Greek for "along with the dream" which made me like it enough to keep using it. When I first set up a SoundCloud account it felt natural to use it for that too, and pieces on this album have featured on there at various times too.

As is usual with the way I work, with elements evolving over time through processing and recycling (sometimes in multiple iterations), the eleven pieces on this album have been fermenting over a long period, with material such as the reversed Hammond organ on 'Lament' dating as far back as 1995. Thus, though I'd been planning this album for the last decade, its history ultimately spans a quarter-century.

'Inkdance' is the soundtrack for my abstract video of the same name from early 2011 when I joined Muted Fnord; it shares a musical foundation with the title track of our debut ep 'SCN9A'. This year I gave the piece a complete remix, now much clearer and more defined with a couple of unobtrusive additional elements. Dedicated with love to my wife Mo.

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2020 has been the most surreal and intense year for all of us. For many of us, weeks and months of lockdown has bought moments of cabin fever. As such, I’m deeply grateful to Jim Tetlow’s Synoneiro for transporting me to a better place. Eleven vignettes of gentle, immersive and quietly euphoric ambient music. Their abstracted moods variously evoke topographical landscapes, meteorological events, states of mind, without falling into the trap of ‘picture music’. With their ever-shifting patterns of tempo, rhythm, pulse, melody and percussives, tracks like ‘Inkdance’ and ‘Duality Train’ take you on a journey of gentle ineffable twists and turns. As someone who prefers music that’s mellow yet ever-evolving and a little challenging too (Eno, Budd, Penguin Café, Hassell, etc), Synoneiro hits the spot. Works equally well as background or foreground music. There’s complexity in simplicity in these uplifting 21st century baroque dances that you never hear quite the same twice. Now firmly one of my top ambient albums. ~ Stephen Iliffe, author of 'Painting With Sound: The Life and Music of Hans-Joachim Roedelius'

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released December 31, 2020

Jim Tetlow: composition, production, artwork/photography

I would like to thank the following friends for their musical contributions drawn from my archive:

Victoria Bourne, whose vocals and flute I processed via vocoding on 'Caress the Cell', 'The Duality Train', 'Psyche's Masquerade' and 'Oblique20.'

Dylan Menzies, who played duduk on 'Inkdance'. As is often the case with me, he improvised the melody over a completely different piece, but it worked even better for this one!

Diane Aston, whose processed vocals appear on 'Virtual Waterphone'.

I'm most grateful, thank you all. x

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Jim Tetlow Leicester, UK

Jim has been recording music in some form or other since 1990, currently focusing on a hybrid music combining instrumental and acousmatic elements. He has involved himself in Leicester's thriving music scene since 1997, playing in a number of bands/duos/projects covering a wide variety of musical territory. ... more

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