Icebergs by Polyatomic
Icebergs started life as the complement to a friend’s visual art installation. He was heading to Newfoundland to film icebergs for a visual art installation he was creating and he wanted music to go with the project. Inspired, I wanted to write a double album - fast tracks and then strip back and slow down versions of those same tracks. The stripped back versions would be used for the actual visual installation.
At the start of this project, I took my husband, Scott, to St. John’s, Newfoundland; for a long weekend where we toured the Avalon peninsula on our own. St. John’s was where I was born and I had not been back since 1998, and it was a stunning weekend. The Victoria Day weekend can be hit or miss in Newfoundland, and the weather was glorious.
I have a lot of complex emotions related to Newfoundland, my identity as a Newfoundlander, and feeling a bit of cultural FOMO having left when I was four. What happened on that trip was me being able to get immersed in my culture, reclamation of identity and reminder things I had lost and getting back in touch. It was a chance to show something to Scott, of which I am deeply proud and to remind myself of that pride.
While the art installation didn’t happen and my music was not used, I still continued with Icebergs as a personal homage to the province, and tells a tale of things that have happened over the past four years.
This is my first album of completely new works from scratch, previously unreleased without going into my back catalogue.
Tracklist
| 1. | The Rock | 4:13 |
| 2. | Flankers and Embers | 5:07 |
| 3. | Miss the point | 5:24 |
| 4. | Happy to be home (Remastered) | 5:12 |
| 5. | Better to love | 4:27 |
| 6. | Trashfire (Polyatomic X5 Mix) | 4:20 |
| 7. | Oceanics | 3:08 |
| 8. | The world keeps turning | 9:51 |
| 9. | The Rock (Winter Mix) | 5:15 |
| 10. | Terra Nova | 8:15 |
| 11. | Cruising | 5:23 |
Credits
All tracks written, produced and engineered by Polyatomic.
Recorded at Solarium, Toronto and across the United Kingdom on trains, planes and in hotels.
Polyatomic is Iain Bennett
Design by S. James Curtis Design
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Thanks and much respect to Scott, Smashy, James Fowler, the pup, the boy, MasterClass, Deadmau5, Armin van Buuren and James Wiltshire at F9/The Freemasons.
Equipment and software used in the making of this album - Roland Aira TR-8, TB-3, System 1, System-8, and Integra-7, Moog Subsequent 37, Korg Wavestate, Novation MiniNova, Steinberg UR44, Yamaha HS-5, Blue Yeti, Apple MacBook Pro and iMac, Logic Pro X, Reason Studio, Spectrasonics Omnisphere, ReFX Nexus, Waldorf Largo and PPG Wave 3; Korg Collection, Native Instruments Komplete 11 Ultimate, Arturia vCollection, XFer Records Serum, LFOTool, Roland Cloud, IZotope BreakTweaker, StutterEdit, Ozone, Tonal Balance, Nectar and RX; Valhalla Room, Supermassive; and Loopcloud.
License
CC BY-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
Polyatomic is the brain child of Iain Bennett, a composer and music producer based in Toronto, Canada.
Ultimately the project is about releasing creativity, having fun, and writing music for the enjoyment of sharing new music. If people happen to like the music, great – spread the word!
Solarium, was released in 201, ターミナル (Terminal) released in 2016. Icebergs, follows in July 2020.