Music for Save Rooms 1 & 2, by John Also Bennett

Music for Save Rooms 1 & 2

by John Also Bennett

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The gaye device Totally captured my attention with this album of minimal experimental ambient music. Hypnotic and spaced out... just how I like it here at Device Manor. Favorite track: Save Room 3.

Dorosoto A wonderfully varied collection of transportive ambient tunes. This album moves between lots of different moods, while consistently using space in very effective ways. Some real standout tracks on this one for sure...definitely recommended for fans of slow, spacious melancholy. Favorite track: Save Room 6.

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Music for Save Rooms 1

01. Still Inside the Deku Tree (5:37)
02. Save Room 3 (11:21)
03. Utopia and Oblivion (8:44)
04. Save Room 6 (9:55)
05. Utopia and Oblivion (Return) (9:24)
06. Spiegel im Spiegel (8:08)

Music for Save Rooms 2

01. Sky Music (5:26)
02. Power Plant (5:35)
03. Desolation (5:18)
04. Glass Castle (3:44)
05. Out Back (2:40)
06. Embarkation (3:20)
07. Computer Terminal (2:15)
08. Letter from Home (5:33)
09. Ambling (2:58) ... more

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Double CD set containing both albums - Music for Save Rooms 1 & Music for Save Rooms 2.
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1.	Still Inside the Deku Tree 05:37	buy track
2.	Save Room 3 11:21	buy track
3.	Utopia and Oblivon 08:44	buy track
4.	Save Room 6 09:55	buy track
5.	Utopia and Oblivion (Return) 09:24	buy track
6.	Spiegel im Spiegel 08:08	buy track
7.	Sky Music 05:26	buy track
8.	Power Plant 05:35	buy track
9.	Desolation 05:18	buy track
10.	Glass Castle 03:44	buy track
11.	Out Back 02:40	buy track
12.	Embarkation 03:20	buy track
13.	Computer Terminal 02:15	buy track
14.	Letter From Home 05:33	buy track
15.	Ambling 02:58	buy track

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John Also Bennett (JAB)’s Music for Save Rooms 1 & 2 compiles two volumes of minimal music conceived as infinitely looping and morphing compositions for “save rooms” - temporary safe spaces within video game maps. The compositions primarily stem from a week spent at work in a former military barn in the Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco, spurred on by multimedia artist and Bennett’s frequent collaborator Peter Burr (for whom a handful of the pieces on these albums were initially composed). Consumed with the idea of music that could create an effortless sense of stasis, yet never exactly repeat itself, Bennett spent days alone in the remote, empty barn composing endless loops, experimenting with phasing techniques, and melding with the surrounding ambience.

The groundwork was laid for over 11 compositions, a few of which at that time were finished. But in early 2020, faced with a pandemic-canceled tour and non-refundable plane tickets, Bennett digitally released a premature version of Music for Save Rooms containing two finished ‘Save Room’ pieces plus various unreleased odds and ends - a synthesized version of Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel im Spiegel”, “Still Inside the Deku Tree”, an alto flute piece and live staple referencing Koji Kondo’s classic score for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and “Utopia and Oblivion”, a work for a virtual just intonation piano & DX7. Bennett presents here a definitely mixed, mastered, and expanded version of Music for Save Rooms (now Music for Save Rooms 1), alongside Music for Save Rooms 2, a fully realized album of new music stemming directly from those original sessions in Marin County.

Composed almost exclusively for a Yamaha DX7, Roland D-50 and JV1080, Music for Save Rooms 2 differs from its predecessor - instead of a collection of disparate works centered around the theme of stasis, the album presents a more cohesive narrative, with shorter tracks relative to its predecessor’s more long-form pieces. Opener “Sky Music'' contains as much silence as it does sound - effortless chords float into view and then sizzle into nothingness. “Power Plant”’s glissando vocal pads and deep percussion hits seem to create a regenerative space, while “Out Back” and “Ambling'' both hint at some distant, foggily recollected liminal place. “Glass Castle” is perhaps more explicit with its imagery, combining the sounds of a glass harmonica and fragile vocal pads with alternatively gorgeous and dissonant piano motifs that utilize a tuning system developed by Iannis Xenakis. Boiled down over years to only its essential parts, Music for Save Rooms 2 is a tour through the mind’s eye of an artist searching for an elusive place, somewhere deep in the open world of our collective consciousness.

Music for Save Rooms 1 & 2 arrives as a double CD on Editions Basilic on March 8th, 2024. First edition of 150 copies designed by Jeroen Wille and mastered by Stephan Mathieu.

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released March 8, 2024

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All music composed and performed by John Also Bennett except "Spiegel im Spiegel", composed by Arvo Pärt

Recorded between 2019 and 2020 in Marin County, California, Brooklyn, New York, Clatskanie, Oregon, and Brussels, Belgium. Originally released in 2020 as a digital album, this version was mixed in 2023 in Brussels.

Instruments: Yamaha DX7ii, Virtual Piano, Bass Bansuri Flute, Oscillators

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All music composed and performed by John Also Bennett

Recorded between 2018 and 2023 in Marin County, California, Brooklyn, New York, Clatskanie, Oregon, and Brussels, Belgium. Mixed in 2023 in Brussels.

Instruments: Yamaha DX7ii, Roland D50, Roland Super JV1080, Virtual Piano, Oscillators

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu (Bonn, Germany)
Design by Jeroen Wille (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Special thanks to Peter Burr and Christina Vantzou
Published by Mute Song
2024 Editions Basilic

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John Also Bennett Athens, Greece

John Also Bennett is an American composer, synthesist and multi-instrumentalist who creates music that could be described as avant-garde, atmospheric, or minimalist.

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