William Doyle - Slowly Arranged: 2016-2019 4xLP (White Vinyl)

Doyle self-released a string of ambient-leaning albums, The Dream Derealised, Lightnesses Vol I & II and Near Future Residence, which are now to receive a first vinyl pressing via Tough Love as both a highly limited four LP box set, titled 'Slowly Arranged: 2016-19'. The Dream Derealised is a collection of nine abstract, lo-fi pieces that were recorded during the summer of 2016. Lightnesses Vol. I & II sees Doyle create what we might understand as true ambient music - that is, music intended for the background that wasn't composed as such, but allowed to blossom out of the setting of some rules and parameters, played by sounds he created and then resampled. The deceptively simple, droning pieces are unlike anything Doyle has made before or since. Near Future Residence is music for an imagined place based on real ideas; the soundtrack for an ecologically sustainable housing development somewhere in a not-too-distant future Britain. The eleven instrumental pieces here come from a place of optimism, imagining a future that is based on cooperation, community and ecological urbanism.1. seeing spectral2. everything tilted3. flexford looping4. a silence of vision5. derealisation LKX6. i no longer knew what to do7. field open wide8. don't get carried away9. all to be footnotes // Lightnesses Vol. I & II [2LP] : Disc 1) 1. Aisles of White2. Number of HarmonyDisc 2) 3. History of Change4. Winter of Fullness// Near Future Residence : 1. Flexford Forest Community Choir2. Cadence Gardens, 20263. Sightings at Tangmere Close4. Music for the 3rd Floor Atrium5. Rose Building Improv Group6. Next Door's Granular Band Practice7. Hocombe Astral Projection Society (Abridged)8. New European Optimism9. Derwenthorpe Rainwater Harvest10. Municipal Harmonics11. Near Future Residence