Iapetus, by John Kennedy

Iapetus

by John Kennedy

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1.	Origins 04:16	info	buy track
2.	Organic 04:16		buy track
3.	The Silence 03:38	info	buy track
4.	Orbital Collider 03:13		buy track
5.	New Dawn 03:54		buy track
6.	Hörfandi Jöklar (Melting Glacier) 04:02	info	buy track
7.	The Flood 03:53		buy track
8.	Symbiosis 05:49		buy track
9.	From Red to Blue 02:00		buy track
10.	Sounds of a Lost Sea 04:22	info	buy track

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Iapetus is a project about transitions. I grew up surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean with the rocks of an ancient seabed beneath my feet. There is a tangible connection to those rocks of ancient seabed, they hold the iron of a precambrian red ocean, iron atoms that were once attached to the oxygen we breath. These mountains that had a large influence on me, and this is a series of compositions about the ocean that stood upon them a long time before I did.

The Iapetus Ocean preceded the Atlantic Ocean before the continents came together then apart again. Named after the Titan in Greek mythology who is held to be an ancestor of humanity, Iapetus brings to mind not only earth origins, but the cycles at the heart of nature - from those in geologic time, to the continuous cycle of water through its various forms on earth. As in any cycle, there is a return to the point of beginning — our Iapetus.

Sound equipment used on recordings:
- Elektron Analog Rytm, Octatrack, Analog Keys, Moog Sub 37, Yamaha Motif X6, Roland JV-80, Korg MS-20, Piano, wind chimes
- Ramsa Mixer, Fostex X-30, Eventide Timefactor, Yamaha SPX50D, EHX graphic fuzz, EHX Memory Man, Zoom H2n, Zoom R24, Logic

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released April 30, 2021

All music composed, performed and recorded by John Kennedy (SOCAN)
Recorded at Lansdoon Studio
Mixing John Kennedy and Don Chapman
Mastering Don Chapman

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John Kennedy Nova Scotia

Music and sound creator working with guitars, synthesizers, samplers, field recordings, and tape decks.

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The Space Between

Aug 2022
Bugs

Jun 2022
Iapetus

Apr 2021

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