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It Was

by Colin Potter

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Persistence 06:41
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Green Fields 08:44
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Saw 03:17
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Nine Months 06:27
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Platform 23 is delighted to present music from Colin Potter with It Was, a collection of tracks chosen from his 1989 cassettes Recent History Volumes 1 & 2.

After a burst of activity, mainly on his ICR label, from 1980 - 82, the Recent History tapes were the first released music in seven years and highlighted the intervening period.

While much of his earlier recordings have now been reissued by Dark Entries, Deep Distance and Sacred Summits, It Was covers the period where Potter recordings were limited while working as an engineer at his IC Studio, and pre-date his work with Nurse With Wound.

The ambience and guitar of The French Polisher leads to Diary Of A Nobody, a confident embodiment of Potter, sequencers and guitar against submerged, metallic percussion rising. Dense, claustrophobia follows in Solidarity At Wujeck Colliery towards the guitar refrains of Persistence.

Side two starts with Green Fields, where plucked guitars are again surrounded and consumed by rising arpeggios. Propulsion without percussion, the uplifting layers of arps shift and redefine before the scatter of Saw with reversed synths and guitar acting as a counterbalance. Nine Months, a possible centerpiece, has an autumnal atmosphere, with crashing cymbals and ambulant guitar, leading to the closing Ships That Pass In The Night, a hazy drift of slowly sequenced synths & primitive voice samples.

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released March 1, 2021

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