Enfants Ruraux

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1.	Thirty One Years And Counting 01:12	buy track
2.	Enfants Ruraux 02:46	buy track
3.	The Smallest Caravan 02:18	buy track
4.	Inaka Ni Amagumo Hukaku 08:48	buy track
5.	Our Beautiful Youth 04:58	buy track
6.	Born Weighing No More Than Two Bags Of Sugar 03:56	buy track
7.	Aki No Kodomo 04:48	buy track
8.	Cuándo Yo Fui Once 02:30	buy track
9.	Coastal Summers 04:32	buy track
10.	Ferns, Teas, Springs 05:36	buy track
11.	Tani No Haiwei 01:12	buy track
12.	In A Cabin In Scotland With My Family 03:40	buy track
13.	Siendo Tiranizado Para Ser Tímido 02:55	buy track
14.	I Got Stuck In Philadelphia, Made This On The Train and Then Brian Sang Over It In New York 02:38	buy track
15.	Love Is Not An Easy Thing 06:28	buy track
16.	Randomly Playing Nothing In Particular 06:04	buy track

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Ian Hawgood, international man of mystery. Mr. Hawgood is a hard-working musician, with an impressive oeuvre spread over a dozen of quality record labels. While his Koen Park moniker is about IDM- and Hip Hop influenced Electronica, the music he publishes under his civil name can roughly be classified as Ambient, Drone and Noise. His "The Fires Will Die At Night" at Resting Bell Netlabel is legend already.

For 12rec., Ian Hawgood delivers an album completely recorded with analog instruments. His most subtle and personal up to date. As the title depicts it, "Enfants Ruraux" is a journey into his childhood when little Ian was nearly deaf; he got obsessed by simple tones and melodies in these days. On the one hand, "Enfants Ruraux" is a meditation on the elementary sound of the piano and the acoustic guitar. Hawgood is happy to be blessed with a musical family and circle of friends who lent pump organ, chimes, violins, trumpets and loads of other stuff for further investigation.

On the other hand, the album deals with various aspects of traveling. UK-born, Ian Hawgood lives in Tokyo right now but that was able to call Spain, Italy and the US home before. Most of the album was made in Pennsylvania and on trains to and from New York City. Throughout the blissful layers of acoustic textures, field-recordings reverberate and bring forth impressions from all these different places. Especially the mystical Japanese countryside was inspiration to Ian while recording this twinkling masterpiece of calm Ambient music.

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released November 6, 2008

This is [12rec.053]

All music by Ian Hawgood
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