seaworthy: bellows & breath

 The Preservation label presents the fourth album from Sydney's Seaworthy. Seaworthy is the musical guise of Cameron Webb, who, for the best part of a decade, has developed singular soundscapes scored with guitar-driven ambience, field recording and digital processing. In recent years, Webb has recorded to acclaim for the esteemed 12K label, releasing the 1897 album in 2009 followed by a collaboration with Matt Rösner, Two Lakes. His compositions reflect his deep connection to environment and nature; each piece often feels like a journey through beautiful, untethered terrain. For Bellows And Breath, Webb has explored a different terrain of his own, paring back his trademark guitar to build a work based largely around harmonium, melodica and found sounds. By way of its title, Bellows And Breath is a new side to Webb's sonic meditations on movement, air and its interaction with the environment. The pure rhythmic hiss and crackle of the harmonium's bellows proved the inspiration for the way Webb played the harmonium itself, becoming an unforced undertow to a set of bowing chords that invoke an open spirit in their composition and measure. Spare and fluid acoustic guitar intermittently reflects off these surfaces, also layered by combinations of melodica, incidental rushes of wind through grass and distant sounds of birds, insects and more. Finding a more direct and urgent pulse in his work, this may be Webb once again in sentiment with nature, however, Bellows And Breath represents a bold new step in his special and personal trajectory. Bellows And Breath is the first work in Preservation's limited edition CD series called "Circa" for 2012. Only 300 copies of each release in the series will be available and will feature a design by Mark Gowing. Each design is realized using an abstract alphabet that creates an interlocking grid, determined by artist and volume number for something both fixed and random. New design and color template in 2012 for all releases. Packaged in beautiful paper stock.