Blue Vessels was played on BBC Radio 3’s The Sleeping Forecast this week. I’m really impressed with how they have mixed the song in with the nature and water sounds – so appropriate for this piece of music. The whole show is very relaxing, calming and quite beautiful. Blue Vessels is on at 12:30 minutes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024qvr
The Blue Vessels EP is the first part of a double album project that I am releasing across four EPs over the next year or so. The album will follow a drop of water as it makes its way from being frozen on a glacier all the way down to the depth of the ocean. The Blue Vessels EP tells the first part of the story, following the ice melting and the water making its way over and under the glacier until it escapes onto the land. Musically it is primarily within the ambient genre with elements of classical contemporary, lo-fi, drone, folk and post rock.
In the title track, a drop of meltwater makes its way across the surface of the glacier that released it. Along the network of channels and passages, the blue glacial water contrasts with the bright white ice and creates a network of possible paths and routes that mark and scar the surface.
This link lets you buy or stream it from your preferred place: https://stephencaulfield.ffm.to/bluevessels
If you want to really do me a favour, buy it on Bandcamp.
You can also view it on YouTube along with a series of visualizations that I made:
Enjoy!
Stephen Caulfield 