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IH​-​001: Clockwatching

by Seawind of Battery

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    These special and extremely limited edition test pressings include black vinyl of “Clockwatching” and a one-of-a-kind, hand-painted record jacket featuring the artwork from the album. Each jacket is signed by myself and hand-numbered 1-10/10.

    Only 7 copies will be available for sale on Bandcamp.

    Limited to 1 per customer!

    Includes unlimited streaming of IH-001: Clockwatching via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Fog and Field Limited Edition LP of 'Clockwatching' – Pressed on White with Green Swirl Vinyl
    + Includes Digital Download of 'Clockwatching'

    Includes unlimited streaming of IH-001: Clockwatching via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 30 days
    edition of 75  1 remaining

      $27 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Rose Quartz Limited Edition LP of 'Clockwatching' – Pressed on Translucent Pink Vinyl
    + Includes Digital Download of 'Clockwatching'

    Includes unlimited streaming of IH-001: Clockwatching via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 75  4 remaining

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  • Full Digital Discography

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  • [PRE-ORDER] Limited Edition Green Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Pro-dubbed green cassette + white imprinting with double-sided full color j-card
    Edition of 55 + Digital Download

    ***SHIPS OUT END OF JULY***

    Includes unlimited streaming of IH-001: Clockwatching via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • [PRE-ORDER] 2nd Pressing "Pink Out" Version – Limited Edition Pink Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Pro-dubbed pink cassette + white imprinting with double-sided full color j-card
    Edition of 25 + Digital Download
    ONLY 25 WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR SALE ON BANDCAMP

    ***SHIPS OUT END OF AUGUST***

    Includes unlimited streaming of IH-001: Clockwatching via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Limited Edition Cassette (FROM PERSONAL STASH)
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Pro-dubbed pink cassette + white imprinting with double-sided full color j-card
    Originally SOLD OUT, I'm making a few copies available from my personal stash available for sale.
    Includes Digital Download

    Includes unlimited streaming of IH-001: Clockwatching via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Super Limited Edition Small Run CD [Edition of 20]
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The first CD-R release on Island House Recordings!

    Edition of 20 on Bandcamp ONLY! Additional leftover CDs will only be available at live shows.

    CD-R with Black printing on a Silver disc in a 2 Panel Jacket and No Shrink Wrap

    Includes unlimited streaming of IH-001: Clockwatching via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Sidestepping 09:10
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Summer Hymn 01:32
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Levels 08:07
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about

Although perhaps made in a time in which we are all on edge, more aware than ever to the passage of time, Clockwatching is anything but restless. It is an anchor in the sea of time, never rushed, nor does it overstay its welcome.

Clockwatching is the debut instrumental solo endeavor of Mike Horn, who’s released more cosmic American music as Goldkey and Sunblinders. He leans deeper into the cosmic realm with Seawind of Battery, an ambient, experimental exercise that acts as a sonic balm for those in a state of existential anxiety. Mastered by Sean Conrad of Inner Islands & Channelers, with design by Steve Rosborough of Moon Glyph, this is the first release under the brand-new Island House Recordings.

Birdsong calls in the ambulant “Above the Waves,” drifting and soaring along, catching the wind just so to coast. “Some Kind of Symmetry” melts, mirage-like as a distant ship passing through a channel at night. In “Sidestepping,” guitar chimes counting past the usual amount of hours, rendering time both meaningless and infinite, culminating in a time-warp fuzz of noise and sound. “Summer Hymn” is a bright interlude between the droning of the latter and the proximal “Levels,” a sequence of singing-bowl-reminiscent loops accented by delicate guitar lines that spread across the album, perhaps coming to an apex here before the denouement of the title track. “Light on the Horizon” is indeed a beacon, less of an endcap than a promise of what’s to come.

Atmospheric and expansive, at first listen you would never know that Clockwatching was city-made music. Like his New York neighbors SUSS, this album by Mike Horn transports you to a wider sky with its patient, meandering flow. Guitar loops and call-and-response lap steel fill the space just so, and as the project title invokes, there’s a touch of an aquatic vibe here a la fellow New Yorkers Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s Soundkeeper, with its shimmering, endless drone behind intricate strums and haunting licks.

I’ve listened to this album in the early morning, in the liminal pass between the high and low deserts, and it fits there-I’ve listened to it at night with the doors open and a breeze passing through, augmented by the nightbird and cricketsong of my own. Clockwatching is around-the-clock listening, unassuming and beautiful start to end.

- Lara Bennett, Petal Motel

credits

released June 14, 2022

Music and Instrumentation – Written & Produced by Mike Horn

Mixed by Anthony "Rocky" Gallo
Mastered by Sean Conrad [Inner Islands]
Art & Design by Steve Rosborough [Moon Glyph]

license

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