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Release Date: 19-03-1999
Label: White Cloud
Catalog Number: WCL11018-2
Barcode: 747313001828
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pattern Of Lands | 5 | Secret Egypt |
| 2 | Fishing The Pearl Of Heaven | 6 | Just Breathe |
| 3 | Thunder On The Savannah | 7 | All The Lands My Mother Sang |
| 4 | Inward To The Heart | 8 | Traveller |
Description:
When Renaissance artist Michelangelo was asked how his magnificent statue of David came into being, he cryptically responded by saying that he just kept chipping away at all the parts that weren't David.
This is a process that Philip Riley knows only too well. For over two decades the Gateshead, England native has been chipping away at his own creative process.
'For A Pattern of Lands I blended music and voices of many diverse cultures, both modern and ancient, to create an imaginary step from where we stand to anywhere our minds might take us,' Philip says.
The sounds in his album are a synthesis of musical textures and patterns, impressions that began for him at an early age.
Biography:
Philip Riley will often laugh if you ask him to recall his early experiences as a musician in the working mens' clubs of Northern England, where he drummed for bands that played in between the bingo sessions, and provided background music for comedians and performing dog acts. He says.
'In that irreverent atmosphere it was hard to get any music taken seriously. We were expected to provide a musical relief between sometimes bizarre entertainments, against a backdrop of loud conversation and smoke as thick as fog.'
Philip felt he had lots of melodies inside him waiting to be expressed, and drumming provided him with limited expression. His interest in working with keyboards developed at about the same time as synthesisers became easily accessible in the 1980's, and he bought a Wurlitzer electronic piano, inspired by Super Tramp, his favourite band at that time. He says that the electronic music medium has given him a freedom of expression that he did not previously imagine would be possible. For over two decades this Gateshead, England native has been chipping away at his own creative process.
