Southermost by riverrun & William Delano

'Southernmost' is the first collaboration between the English ambient artist riverrun (aka Daniel Land) and Californian new age composer William Delano. The album comes out of Land and Delano's shared love of California, and the record was largely put together by email, after an initial meeting in 2017.

'Southernmost', is William Delano's first release in over thirty years, coming more than three decades after his last effort, 'Vibrating Air'. Delano was born in San Diego, and prior to achieving tenure as a professor, in the early 1980s, he released nine albums of meditative new age music across the course of a five year career - albums which he manually dubbed onto cassette tapes, and distributed privately to New Age stores and meditation retreats in the Bay Area of California. Long neglected, a selection of these works are set for re-release on Daniel Land's Hinney Beast Records in the Autumn of 2019.

Daniel Land's riverrun project is a series of what he calls "heavily-composted landscape recordings", that he has been working on for nearly two decades, in parallel to the Dream Pop songs he releases under his own name. Taking its cue from musique concrète, and building upon the groundwork laid down by Brian Eno's 'On Land' album, riverrun's music painstakingly layers field recordings and reprocessed studio tracks into a deeply nostalgic exploration of geography and memory.

Californian-based synth artist William Delano recorded nine albums of relaxating ambient music in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

He has recently begun recording and releasing new music for the first time since 1984, including the new album 'Southernmost' (a collaboration with the UK artist Riverrun) and 'Sacred Waters' with Alan Lidden.

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