Darrin Verhagen ‎– Soft Ash (1997)

Country: Australia

Tracklist

1. Soft Ash - Origins 05:56
2. The White Death: Part 1 (Meuse Valley, Belgium 1930) 05:12
3. MIC (Bhopal, India 1984) 07:05
4. The Plague Wind (London 1871) 08:04
5. Chernobyl (Former USSR April 26 1986) 04:54
6. The White Death: Part 2 (Meuse Valley, Belgium 1930) 06:23
7. Fragments (Monnongahela Rice Valley, USA October 25-31 1948) 10:51

Darrin Verhagen is an Australian composer known for his projects Shinjuku Thief,
Shinjuku Filth, E.P.A., and Professor Richmann.
He lectures in sound design, soundtrack and electronic music at RMIT university,

previously having run the Dorobo record label.
In 1997 he released his first solo album entitled "Soft Ash".
The movement through a range of compositional techniques is inspired by historical reports
of a series of lethal atmospheric inversions, ranging from the killer fogs of London in the 1880's
through to the incidents at Union Carbide and Chernobyl.
As the album unfolds, bleak electroacoustic themes become more surreal,
ending up with conceptually inaccurate atmospheric ambience and rhythmic minimalism.
Recorded at P3 facility and mastered by François Tétaz.

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