#2 in the continuing 'Suffolk Ambient' series...
2008-01-23 by Hal Berstram
Brother Typewriter – Floating Off the Coast of Lowestoft
Another track from the Burning Lodge speed-composition stable, following last year’s Rendlesham 1980. The vast majority of the tracks I’ve produced in these sessions are not really stylistically suitable for this blog, but the odd ambient thing does come out of the sessions, so here we are.
Nerd info: this piece features the Arturia CS80V with a bit of electric guitar over the top. The CS80V is a software recreation of the Yamaha CS80 synthesiser, a seventies behemoth that was the favourite synth of Vangelis (another seventies behemoth, in fact.) It is, for better or worse, The Big Sound and unfortunately had a big price to match… but the Arturia version is only about £120, a positive bargain.
I’m developing something of a Suffolk theme with the titles for these ambient tracks and indeed there may be a Suffolk Ambient Project CD release somewhere down the line – if I can get enough pieces in a particular style. “Sizewell B incident” anybody? By the way, the title is a tribute to my friend Benny V aka ‘Brother Buffalo’ on the Burning Lodge, who in 1992 saw “a strange light, floating off the coast of Lowestoft”. It seemed to be a long way off and then it was very close… just like Christmas, or the police.
We thought it might be aliens, but another mate (let’s call him ‘Mr F.’) objected: “Why would they choose to manifest themselves in such a bizarre manner – floating off the coast of Lowestoft?”
Well, why the hell not?
Download MP3 (4:04min / 6MB)
- Burning Lodge
- Immersion Composition Society
- Arturia CS80V
- used by Toto, Jarre, Emerson, Wonder, Vangelis... all the greats.
Comments 
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Beautiful stuff, H. Lowestoft sounds like a perfectly reasonable spot for an extraterrestrial visit. It's not far off our equivalent of the midwest, after all.
Great Ambient work especially with the Suffolk theme. With Brian Eno 5 miles down the road and the suffolk coast on my doorstep it seems to have more meaning.(or is that just me being overly arty)
Just wonderful, thanks. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic.
Many thanks for all the positive feedback, everybody. It means a lot.
If Lowestoft is the English mid-west then the Dengie peninsula in Essex (where Bradwell nuclear power station resides) is probably our equivalent of Deliverance-style backwoods Georgia…
Top stuff Hal, nice one!