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Winter Music

by Michael Potter

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Winter Jam 10:57
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Ode to CM 15:30

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A collection of compilation, split release, and previously unreleased tracks compiled for Winter listening

"Winter Jam" originally released on the Living Room Visions Winter 2014 four tape box set compilation on the Sunup Recordings label

"Winter Clouds" previously unreleased, recorded Winter 2008

"Ode to CM" originally released as one side of a split cassette with Frank Hurricane on the Null Zone label, Winter 2017

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released February 1, 2020

"Winter Music is one of the more overtly experimental albums in Michael Potter’s body of solo guitar work. It’s also one of the most fascinatingly beautiful releases to bear his name yet. What is essentially a compilation of improvised recordings from split cassettes with other artists comes together as a conceptually snow-covered inward journey.

"Three songs hang in a long, sustained round of heavy reverb, steel strings, a floor tom, and keys, giving rise to both traditional picking and massive swells of dreamlike drone music.

"“Winter Jam” first appeared on the Living Room Visions Winter 2014 compilation (Sunup). A slow kerrang reveals a desolate folk-blues dirge of minimalism pushed to the max, sinking into a groove with each rhythmic pass. “Winter Clouds” is a previously unreleased number from 2008, offering a snapshot of a time when Potter was learning to record using a computer.

"It’s also the first time he felt comfortable using his own voice. Here, all of the ghostly sung-spoken parts and the chorus of ‘ooohhs’ and ‘aaaahhhs’ add layers of texture to the song. Since then, Potter has grown increasingly confident using vocals on his own and under the Electric Nature moniker.

"Here, the process reveals as much depth and character in his voice as his later, more realized offerings. “Ode To CM” comes from a 2017 split tape with cosmic-nomadic troubadour Frank Hurricane. A wintery wash of drones sets a tone of Zenlike bliss before Potter reaches an ecstatic state with a minimal psych rock jam and blistering noise that morphs into a fully formed song—kind of.

"Although Winter Music is a series of unrelated one-offs, there are enough intriguing and stylistic moments that tie each one together as a compelling point of entry into Potter’s ever-growing and ever-elusive catalog of tapes, ever-growing collection of Bandcamp files, and in-the-moment meditations on the elements." - Chad Radford, The Pulse

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