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Riverrun
12+ albums
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about
riverrun is a side project by Daniel Land of the Manchester, UK shoegaze band Daniel Land & The Modern Painters. Taking its name from the first line of James Joyce’s modernist, subconscious masterpiece Finnegan’s Wake, riverrun (always in lowercase letters) is a series of ‘secret’ ambient recordings that Land has been working for over a decade in parallel to his songs. Throughout the last fifteen years, Land amassed a library of several hundred textures and soundcolours which, as he puts it, “Were just little ideas created when my attention was focused on something else – normally while I was recording a more traditional song”. In the process of engineering and recording a track he would become sidetracked by a new sound and would, in his words, “Spend a while exploring the ramifications of it". The project came together slowly over the last year after Land stumbled upon the idea of using some of the sketches as film music. As he went through his tapes, Land began to blend some of these sketches and fragments together, painstakingly matching key signatures and looking for interesting contrasts and juxtapositions. Elements recorded on a four track cassette machine in 1995 ended up sitting next to new guitar sounds from the cutting room floor of the Modern Painters record. Old tracks that Land had thought were finished ended up being incorporated into newer tracks, which in turn would become blended into a still newer piece - each step of the process adding another layer of
