Ross Alexander
Memorias Vol. 2
High Atlas to The Sahara Desert
Discrepant
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2019
Includes Instant Download
LP
18.99
CREP068
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Tracklist
1Amzigh Rue 4:21
2Each Mile A Dry River 5:56
3Ancient Kasbah Lays in Ruin 7:18
4Night Pass 5:37
5The Endless Tea Interval Episode 1 1:37
6Homage To The Cause (One Night In Marrakesh) 8:54
7Uplands 4:03
8The Endless Tea Interval Episode 2 2:12
9Shattering Metals 4:54

Ross Alexander first came to our attention with Memorias Vol.1 – Bugandan Sacred Places, released back in 2017 on Sucata Tapes, it featured a mind altering mix of recorded sounds from a series of visited sites considered sacred within the Bugandan kingdom and session recordings with Ugandan musicians Albert Sempeke and the Nilotika Collective layered with his own original composition using the Yamaha DX7 and programmed FM synthesis. The result being a unique reconfiguration of new age vocabulary with East African traditional sensibilities. The tape quickly sold out and the new Volume of Memorias presented here arrives now on the mother label Discrepant, on Vinyl with an expanded sound palette appropriate to the format.

Memorias Vol.2 – High Atlas to The Sahara Desert is the logical progression of Volume 1. – based on a series of field recordings Alexander made during a trip through the High Atlas Mountains and into the Sahara Desert in 2018. The aim of the trip was to visit a gathering of nomadic musicians at an oasis close to the Algerian border. Like Memorias Vol1. the recordings made on the trip were then later processed, layered and arranged with original compositions. Where Vol1. had clear nods to New Age music this volume explores the more ambient side of 80’s Industrial sound.