Brian d'Souza - 'Sunflowers' out now
Sunflowers album is out now on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By. Track recording videos and launch party 22nd Feb.
My album dedicated to the Sunflower is out now on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By. Every physical purchase comes with a beautiful yellow tape cassette, a packet of sunflower seeds and some additional prints, as well as the digital download/album stream via the Bandcamp app.
Launch Party 22nd Feb
For those in London, please come to our album launch party in Hackney Wick this Sunday: TICKETS HERE.
4pm start with a live set from Li Yilei, live performance of ‘sunflowers’ by Brian d’Souza and DJ support from Luca (E2-E8 records)
Track by Track Recordings:
These videos show the tracks as I recorded them, basically doing the whole thing in one take, in one day.
You can see how much/little I interacted with the sounds and the limited editing I did post recording (mainly to fit the tracks onto the required cassette length). Apologies, I forgot to film ‘Hector’s Sunflower’.
The modules I used were: Instruo Scion, Harmonaig, LFO, Mutable Instruments Plaits (x2), Beads, Rings, Clouds, a Filter, Eventide H9 FX.
Read more about how I made it here:
Signs of Life
Sparse bleeps of a life force being birthed into this world from seeds in soil
Germination
An entity starts to come together, with a stalk now being visible and harmonic layers being heard
Irrigatio
Water gives life and the composition starts to flourish, where you can hear the water supporting life in the track
Heliotropism
Light helps growth, with the sunflower physically turning towards the light source as if it were dancing to a single strobe on a dance floor of soil. This track is about movement and vitality!
Stand Tall
With the stalk now becoming stronger, it can support the full flower which starts to pop with audible bursts representing the head opening and petals finally being visible
Sunshine, Freedom and a Little Flower
The full sunflower in all it’s glory is born, with the full symphony now being created, bringing together the sounds heard so far into a full composition - a true representation of the sunflower in all its glory