“Quattro Terre is an uncanny work of field recording-based acoustic ecologies that evoke our climate-weirded world. These four soundscapes are hewn from sounds recorded while hiking through the Cinque Terre area of Italy, summoning heat-warped spring blooms, the preternatural stillness of summer, a cold plunge into the unsettled sea, and, on side-length ‘Billy's,’ the nostalgic relief of an evening breeze.”

- Gertrude Tapes

As the third release I’ve done for John Atkinson, and the second release with Gertrude Tapes, I had a pretty good idea of how this project would progress going into it, and it was indeed an incredibly smooth process. John had a very clear idea of what he wanted, and my role was more as a sounding board initially, mostly helping him refine and execute his specific vision. 

In his own words, “soooo the album I think is gonna be called ‘Quattro Terre’, or maybe just ‘Four Villages’ idk - but it's four pieces made from sounds recorded while hiking through Cinque Terre last year…. thinking of a generic ambient beautiful/blissy/some... Read more