![]() ![]() Joe and Craig initially wanted to create 12 total tracks, one to correspond to each month of the year. Like audio penpals, each person started one track per tape with a musical idea and or a field recording created and then posted to the next person, while the other responded musically back and forth (each artist had 6 tapes to start with) and building layers built upon layers, sometimes musically, sometimes with field recordings, until each track felt right.Īlongside this process, visual references were collected and shared to create a rich and complex aural expression. Instead by collaborating through 12 cassette tapes using 4 track tape recorders, via the traditional postal service. The inspiration was a the prompt of each month of the year. After creating a musical interpretation of an Emmanuel Witzthum track for the label Cotton Goods, Criag invited Joe to create an EP which was released in a secretive manner and inevitably this led to the friends wanting to produce music together, but not by purposefully not swapping digital files as many artists do these days. ![]() While Craig’s musical endeavours are well known in this community, Joe’s are not - and beyond being a Graphic Designer and a single dad in Napa, California- he also makes music on the side in a more low-key acoustic (semi-experimental ambient) format. Joe eventually became a small part of the moteer::/mobeer::/cotton goods/boats family with Andrew Hargreaves with some banjo added on one EP and a few secretive projects on the side. Their friendship grew from music, to shared appreciations of much else in life. Joe wrote Craig expressing nothing more than appreciation & an email based friendship began and they corresponded - often multiple times per week. A lingering piano chord held a in the air with an unidentifiable crackling loop that swims around it all: thus begins the first sounds that started 10 years ago.Ĭraig Tattersall (The Humble Bee/Boats) and Joe Borreson have been cross continental friends since the days of the label moteer:: which Craig ran and curated. ![]()
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