David Goldstein
Like watching a sunset on really good edibles hovering two inches above the ground. Amazing ambient country.
Favorite track: Light on the Horizon.
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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.
Includes unlimited streaming of IH-001: Clockwatching
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
edition of 10
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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.
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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Bent Corner – Heavily Discounted Clockwatching Vinyl [Only 4 Available]
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Thanks to USPS, I have discounted vinyl available for purchase. $13 + media mail shipping will still get one of these perfectly playable and blemished looking records in your collection. Don't judge a tree by its cover...
I have 4 available. 3 Fog & Field, 1 Rose Quartz. Feel free to drop a comment if you have preference.
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 Fog and Field Vinyl
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.
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Limited Edition Rose Quartz Vinyl
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.
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]
I had the honor of collaborating with Davide on multiple songs from his beautiful record, Ligurian Pastoral (my Island House records labelmate) Seawind of Battery
A largely improvised, long-distance collaboration between Brisbane multi-instrumentalist Andrew Tuttle and London duo Padang Food Tigers. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 3, 2021