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I finally got around to this after a loooong time prevaricating. It's just 8 tracks, some older ones revised with better timing and instrumentation and some completely new. If you're interested it here:
https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/album/misty
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Great stuff, thanks alot!

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As ever you created beautiful textures and clouds of sound to get lost in. With my rather depressive disposition :) half of the tracks were much too light hearted. You have a talent to create a friendly, warm atmosphere! But the sapce themed tracks (between the stars andVoyager) showed one other side of your approach: boundless width. Dark mist also struck a chord. Hours and Hours had really neat drums. I assume those were the "acoustic kits" from the Yoshimi banks?
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Wow! Thanks a lot for that expansive review Jeanny. It will keep me smiling the whole weekend :lol:
Yes, The drums were from the Natural Drum Kit and Natural Snare. The really are excellent aren't they?
Percussion is always my weakest point so it took a long time to get that to a point where I was happy with it.
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I listened to this while I was out driving with my wife, and she didn't complain about it! That is actually a high compliment coming from her. :) When it comes to music, she is a little hard to please.

I enjoyed the album. It is full of nice ambient textures, very soothing.
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Congrats @folderol! Publishing an album, even now that the Internet makes it easier, is not just slapping some mp3s on the web and you showed it to us: the tracks show great commitment and consistency. Beautiful music from someone I consider to be one of the "sages" of the FLOSS audio community! :D

Hours and Hours is such a beautiful track, I think I've rarely heard electronic music so beautiful! It reminds me of Ryuichi Sakamoto.

I think what you shared with us can teach us a lot about music and introspection. I hope everyone will take their time listening to this, and am certain that someone will find consolation in listening!
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I'm absolutely delighted (and somewhat stunned) that people are getting so much enjoyment from this album. Thank you all :D
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Hi Will!

Late but glad to have snatched this gem out of the lengthening list of great tunes we have in our forum these days. Congrats on your album release!

There is a beautiful luminous thread that runs through all of these that inspires peace and tranquility and has actually moved me to tears in a few places. I hope you have at least an inkling of what a unique gift you have and how wonderful your works are as a respite from the troubled times we are living in. Great work, look forward to more collections!
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Wow!
Thanks a lot for that Glen. That really makes all the effort worthwhile.
Mind you, I'm sure you agree that this is just something in us that we have to do.
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The magic beautiful music! Congratulations for album release! Unreal sounds, harmony mood!

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Thanks a lot :)
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