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Electric Mountain

by Caro C

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halloweenlisteningparty Lots of great and unique experimentation on this album, but the songs are also inspiring, and sneak up on you with a feeling of excitement, hope and optimism! Listen with headphones, or some good speakers to feel the deep bass resonances shake out the cobwebs of your imagination. Favorite track: Mighty Like Mountain.
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    Electric Mountain on CD
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    Gorgeous design by Andrea Pazos.

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    Electric Mountain album on bamboo USB with its own little box.
    The perfect gift to self and others who will benefit from lovingly crafted triumphant music.
    Includes the 12 tracks from album plus artwork, sleeve notes, lyrics, 4 instrumental mixes, 2 binaural mixes and 9 of my best of tracks!
    Design by Andrea Pazos, inspired by Louis Bailey's mountain lino print.

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    Electric Mountain album on bamboo USB with its own little box.

    Deluxe edition includes A4 signed limited edition lino print by Louis Bailey.

    4 designs of "Mountain":
    - black and gold on brown
    - blue and gold on brown
    - black and gold on white
    - pink and green on white
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    The perfect gift to self and others who will benefit from lovingly crafted triumphant music and exclusive visual art.

    Includes the 12 tracks from album plus artwork, sleeve notes, lyrics, 4 instrumental mixes, 2 binaural mixes and 9 of my best of tracks!

    USB design by Andrea Pazos, inspired by Louis Bailey's mountain lino print.

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1.
The triumph of a human heart. Live from big mind Give from big heart Big art.
2.
Rock this, rock this montagne électrique. We are Somos magnifico. The magma in me, The magma in you, The magma in me and the magma in you And our magnificent capacity, Our magnificent capacity For renewal. We are magnificent We are So bathe in your magnificence.
3.
Curveballs 05:12
Life lancing its curveballs Holding... Surrender again like I did back then I surrender. Holding you, holding me.
4.
Fierce Love 04:23
The fire, the air, the water, the earth As we spin our yarns in the weave of life. Fierce love Fearless Love Feel this love of life. Fierce love Fierce! Fearless love Fire, air, water, earth Cherish them For without them we perish. These precious pillars of your power. We resonate and amplify this fierce love
5.
Climb when ready Climb when ready, climbing Trust your feet. You can get through this crux We will get through this crux. Let's do this. You are mighty like mountain You are strong like oak. Strong as willow. Mighty like, stronggggg Let's do this! 500 million years? 500 million years. Who are you? Say, who are you? And we've topped out, enjoy the view.
6.
Yeah a lot needs to change Nothing ever stays the same for long Adapt and Learn Yeah a lot needs to change Slow or fast improvement Maybe change Maybe change is the Maybe change is the only constant. Shed that Shed that skin And be new again. The good, the sad, the inevitable The good, the sad. Show me how you dance To this thing called life Show me how you dance To this life.
7.
I’m falling in love with the possibilities of electronic sound All over again. How I can customise language Paraverbal communication, With timbres that fizz But don’t actually exist. The colours, the shapes, The shades and waves. By the boldest brush And the gentlest stroke I can hit that spot And express What’s truly what. With the abundance of tools At the tip of my fingertips Spatialisation, pitch Beyond my society’s constraints. The intersecting effects The interweaving layers Pulsating counterpoints – Textures you can nestle in Textures you can trust. So you’re in the sound And transmute those sounds That are living within you. I thank goodness and badness For this ever expanding tone, imagination scape. Beaming gratitude to the trailblazing ancestors Who paved the way for my fulfilling wayward ways. And the coders, the inventors, Nimble fingers on production lines Making it all doable. So I can dare to be rare With the tenderest of care And offer my fullest expression Through the medium Of electronic sound.
8.
Ton, Klang, klingt, Rausch Son et lumiere Your sacred fire Honour Your sacred fire No longer at the brunt of someone else's game You are you Honour Your sacred fire! Dare to be rare with the tenderest of care Collective, connected.
9.
Nissology 03:54
That ever shifting sand bar, is it sea or is it land? Life can carry, life can carry you. Hear you.
10.
We are nature You are nature
11.
Little Song 04:44
I see you I want you here, I love you, I’ll keep you safe. I know you I’m here for you, You brighten my heart. I enjoy you so you can enjoy yourself I respect you then you shall respect yourself I’ll soothe you hence you’ll learn to soothe yourself You brighten my heart. You, you, you, You brighten my heart. You know that you’re made of the same stuff as stars? Please remember you’re made of the same stuff as stars, That’s how amazing you are. Go make all the mistakes you want And I will always love you. Go make all the mistakes you need And I will always love you. Go make all those mistakes you can’t avoid And I will always love you. 'Cos that’s what mothers do And that’s what fathers do And that’s what you can do And that’s what we can do That’s what That’s what That’s what What’s that?
12.
Party Call 00:29
I’m just one tiny particle, calling a party A vital piece in the giant jigsaw called life. One tiny particle Calling a party Calling a part A vital piece A vital peace Vital peas…
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I’m falling in love with the possibilities of electronic sound All over again. How I can customise language Paraverbal communication, With timbres that fizz But don’t actually exist. The colours, the shapes, The shades and waves. By the boldest brush And the gentlest stroke I can hit that spot And express What’s truly what. With the abundance of tools At the tip of my fingertips Spatialisation, pitch Beyond my society’s constraints. The intersecting effects The interweaving layers Pulsating counterpoints – Textures you can nestle in Textures you can trust. So you’re in the sound And transmute those sounds That are living within you. I thank goodness and badness For this ever expanding tone, imagination scape. Beaming gratitude to the trailblazing ancestors Who paved the way for my fulfilling wayward ways. And the coders, the inventors, Nimble fingers on production lines Making it all doable. So I can dare to be rare With the tenderest of care And offer my fullest expression Through the medium Of electronic sound.

about

Welcome to ELECTRIC MOUNTAIN, my fourth album!
I hope you enjoy this body of work intended as nourishment for the head, heart and haunches.
Written and mixed by little me on my laptop with help from some talented creative pals in my marvellous creative mycelium.

If you cannot afford the prices here that I have set to try to recoup my costs (Help Musicians covered 50% of the costs), please just contact me, let me know. If you want and need this music but cannot afford it, I will make sure you will have it! Also available on You Tube & Spotify for free listening.

This 12-track collection brings together my love for the mountains, the earth based elements and the technology that enables me to express myself so fully. As our fractured eco-social system seems in dire need of a reset, themes include connection, conscious evolution, loss and belonging. There’s also the glory of rock climbing – the physical power and intimacy with the elements after being disabled for 15 years or so.

The sound palette includes piano, voice, found sounds, a Covid adapted choir, software instruments and a sampled lithophone – like a xylophone but made of slate – real rock music! Covid might take this lass from the mountains, but you can’t take the mountains out the Caro, I just brought them into the studio.

Cooped up like many in 2020, the laptop became my orchestra, the sound weaving my creative sanctuary. It also took discipline to keep showing up and determination to complete “Electric Mountain” with numerous Covid related obstacles. The array of found sounds (eg. jangling oven shelves, a ping pong ball, a giant water bottle drum, climbing gear) stroke the balance between the adventurous and the familiar (you cannot beat an 808 kick at times). I may be a solo artist but “Electric Mountain” is a rich collective endeavour, even in our more recent isolated times.

There’s also re-works of recent commissions including two dance productions, a film soundtrack and a sonic response to Hayling Island. In my signature “one-woman electronic avalanche” style (BBC Introducing), “Electric Mountain” spans from lush ambient works to more stomping triumphant tracks. Then there are some multi-lingual lyrics as Ich suis Europeana!

credits

released June 4, 2021

Written, produced and mixed by Caro C.
Mastered by Blacklisted Mastering.

Credits:
Agents of Change: voices of Bury College students & Callum Hogg plus Howard Jacobs on gangan/talking drum & omele meta.
Fierce Love choir: Carol Donaldson, Rose Niland, Christine Johnson, Janet Wolstenholme, Julie Wolstenholme, Gemma Weightman, Mandy Wigby, Aidan Jolly, Mark Corrin & Luisa Maraffino with siren sound by Mandy Wigby & wild “eee” by Aidan Jolly. Shimmering Gear low hum by Mags Lowe.

Composed, recorded & mixed by Caro C on a laptop except piano recorded by Janet Wolstenholme at Cross Street Chapel, MCR, UK.
Co-exec producer Mandy Wigby.
Album artwork by Andrea Pazos, photo of Caro by Shirlaine Forrest with dress by Alison Hamilton, hair/makeup by Having a Hairmare/Nikki Armstrong.

Acknowledgements:
Help Musicians UK’s Do It Differently Fund for supporting this production; Electric Mountain hydropower station in Llanberis for letting me use the name;
Jared Kitchen for title Infinite Variables of Transmission;
Madelon Hooyakaas for kind permission to re-work soundtrack for her film “In the Footsteps of Li-Yuan Chia and Delia Derbyshire” into Infinite Variables of Transmission;
Elisa Artesero for “Dreamers” show that spawned Dreamers For Elisa and Gemma Leighton for dreaming the magnificent word which inspired the lyrics;
Hamilton Projects for commissioning original version of Agents of Change; Company of Others for “Crackle.Dust” dance theatre show, the seed for Curveballs;
Gail Bradbrook (XR) for where I first heard the phrase fierce love and her blessing to use this phrase for Fierce Love;
Mish Green for commissioning me to make the original version of Nissology for their “Hayling Stories” project;
Sailor Dave (KMC member) for inspiring me to make a beautiful track with climbing gear (Shimmering Gear);
Words for the first verse of Little Song re-created with kind permission of author Jasmin Lee Cori;
Gemma Leighton for encouraging me to create a song for little Caroline and dreaming the “get ready to be magnificent” dream with me by her side;
My marvellous herd, creative communities, comrades and supporters, you should know who you are but must mention SL77, Harrie (“dare to be rare” is hers), Belle, Nat, Gemma, Mish, Anu, Anita for sterling support and creative fire stokers;
Mountain adventure companions of the KMC;
Mags Lowe for vocal studio support;
Mandy Wigby for solid album journey support;
Emma Margetson and Guillaume Dujat for binaural mentoring;
Phil France for the lend of his lovely U77;
Maria Ruban for video making;
Louis Bailey for gorgeous mountain lino print;
The crazy flipping wonderful of it all that fuels my creativity and breaks my heart;
Manda Scott for deeper connection to the elements and web of life;
Kat Byles for expansive visioning with integrity;
Heidi Hinda Chadwick for helping midwife the Electric Mountain vision; AND YOU FOR ACTUALLY BUYING MUSIC!
Gratitude radiates for me being able to do my thing.

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Caro C Manchester, UK

"A sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3)

"One-woman electronic avalanche" (bbc.co.uk)

“Proper interesting gear with lots of fresh ideas and thought provoking lyrics” – Brian at Norman Records, UK

“A one-woman slap in the face for the chin-stroking laptop massive” – bbc.co.uk

“a pioneering independent electronic musician” – Metro, UK
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