Slow Bicycle is the solo project of ambient electronic songwriter Christos Panagiotakis. After his full length album on Gross Diskos this is his second (split) release together with Fane.

Fane is the solo project of James Bandenburg, a musician based in Brighton, UK. Fane creates gnostic ambient-drone songs influenced by the ancient lands and structures that he encounters.

The title of the album reflects both the music, in the sense that these two musicians create, record and mix their music mostly on their own, but also the album cover. Inspired by the loneliness we can feel when we encounter true nature, a hard to reach island shore or a hard to reach mountain top can also help us reflect on our own nature.

The work we present in this split album shares a deep connection to nature as both musicians like to take long walks and explore locations as part of their creative process. Forests and islands, mountains and old settlements all fuse together in this album’s music.

Slow Bicycle’s songs are based on ambient soundscapes and melodies produced by analog synth sounds and accompanied by charango and minimal rhythmic patterns. Influenced by Brian Eno and Múm, Slow Bicycle gently guides the listener through a music journey full of hope and inward reflection. The sound of the charango (small stringed instrument found in the Andean region of South America) adds a unique flavour to the songs with its bright and hopeful sound that cuts through the ambient tones and rhythms.

Fane presents two compositions, a shorter very rhythmic song that feels like a fusion of ambient with drum and bass and an 18 minute drone devoid of any sort of rhythm or pattern. This sonic juxtaposition is not brave for the sake of being brave but offers the listener a refreshing approach to what minimal instrumental music can be and how different aesthetics and approaches can co-exist. Influences from bands like Sunn O))) and Swans can be found in both of these seemingly different songs.

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released December 10, 2021

Side A - Slow Bicycle

1. Blows
2. Reasoning
3. Time Stayed Still
4. New Beginnings

Members: Christos Panagiotakis - analog synths, charango and drum machine
Produced, Recorded, Mixed And Mastered By Christos Panagiotakis.

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Side B - Fane

1. Bracken Two-Step,
2. Global Re-Emergence Blues

Members: James Bandenburg
Recorded by James Bandenburg

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All artwork by Decompression Graphics www.instagram.com/decompression_graphics/

For streaming Fane please check the original release page on Submersion Records:
submersionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-shore

Submersion 11 | December 2021
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