Join me for a live YouTube listening party for Jabun's 4th album Tides on Friday 6th May (8pm BST)! Only a few more days until the big release! Hope to see you there!

Hi everyone and hope you had a great April since the last post! It's just a few more days until the release of Jabun's 4th album Tides and to celebrate, I'm doing something a little different than usual, a live YouTube premier of the WHOLE album on the evening of the release! Join me on Friday May 6th at 8pm BST on the HurpADervish YouTube channel for chats and discussion while we listen to Tides together! Pin the link below ready for Friday night's listening party and I look forward to seeing you there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0GFfoq3FCs

In case you missed it in the last post, Tides is a 70+ minute collection of 9 ambient and experimental live performances, together telling the tale of a fateful voyage at sea. The album begins by setting sail from The Beach at night and riding the rhythmic Waves, before being encountered by beckoning Sirens and lured into a terrible storm. Following The Storm, floating among the wreckage, you have nightmares of Ghosts, the other souls taken from the living world by the waters, but you survive only to wake up to despair, realising you are Lost At Sea. With no hope or strength left, you feel the Gravity of the situation, both figuratively and literally, as you’re pulled below the surface to meet the same fate. But with the sorrow comes a sense of acceptance, as below the waves you find a world much calmer than the one you endured among them. You sink peacefully to your final resting place, the deepest depths of the vast ocean: Mariana.

Each track from Tides was performed live and recorded as a single take during 2021 with only the lightest of further processing to bring the album together in mastering. Included in the album is a bonus track, Inner Space, which while initially recorded live was slowed down post recording and further processed in a similar way to the semi-live 15-4-20 album. It provides an ambient epilogue to the album, a modular synth soundscape representing the deep and vast Inner Space that is the ocean. The tracklist is as follows:

Jabun – Tides

01 The Beach

02 Waves

03 Sirens

04 The Storm

05 Ghosts

06 Lost At Sea

07 Gravity

08 Mariana

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09 Inner Space (Bonus)

To my ears, Tides is undoubtedly my most experimental album yet, with much of it more like soundscapes than actual melodic music. Despite the extended length, I decided to include the full performance for every track, as a captured moment in time, rather than a premeditated composition on a studio album. Similarly, I wanted to keep editing to a minimum, with only minor adjustments, and the mastering really just to balance the tracks against each other (and my previous discography) and add a little bit of sheen. Whether you sit down to listen intently, have it on in the background while doing something else, or simply immerse yourself in the sounds, I hope you enjoy these uncut live ambient experimental performances, a collection of meditative moments from another strange year of restrictions and lockdowns.

Tides releases in full on May 6th 2022 but you can pre-order the album and check out the pre-release single Mariana on Bandcamp where you can read more about the album's backstory, track details (including equipment used and recording dates) and explore the full album credits and special thanks (You can also listen to Mariana on YouTube and Newgrounds):

Pre-order Jabun's Tides album on Bandcamp:

https://jabun.bandcamp.com/album/tides

Listen to Mariana on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i58OvpTvS2A

Listen to Mariana on Newgrounds:

https://www.newgrounds.com/projects/audio/1853313/

Of course, all of my patrons already have access to downloads for the album art and pre-release single Mariana (Mp3) on Patreon, and if you're a $10 patron however, you have exclusive early access to the full Tides album and artwork package as well, right now before release time on Friday! If that sounds good to you, feel free to join me over on Patreon and remember you'll gain access to all past rewards for your tier too including my full backcatalog discography uploaded so far (including many Patreon exclusive downloads and bonus tracks) as soon as you sign up! Find out more below:

$10 Rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64618391

$1 Rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64618389

Reward Archives: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50344842

Find out more: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

And a huge thanks goes to all patrons past and present who keep my music going each month with special mention to the current $10+ patrons: Nathan Puray, and Michael White! Thank you all so much for your help and support in making these dreams a reality! You folks are amazing!

That about wraps things up for this post! The next post and set of rewards will coincide with the album release on May 6th which will include the usual monthly updates and $10 DEMOlition Pigeon reward too. Hope you're as excited as I am for the release and I hope to seeing you on Friday at the listening party for chats and discussions on YouTube while listening to Tides! Until then, I hope you enjoy the new music and have a great week ahead, and thanks as always for supporting my music however you can! Take care and all the best!