I think it’s pretty obvious by now that I try my best not to miss a single release by Taylor Deupree. I especially get excited when this founder of the experimental, minimal and organic ambient label, 12k, collaborates with other favorite artists, like most recently with Christopher Willits in 2007, Stephan Mathieu in 2009 and Marcus Fischer in 2011. Seaworthy is a Sydney (Australia) based composer, Cameron Webb, with catalog releases on labels such as Slaapwel, Low Point, Preservation, and of course, 12k. In February of 2013, Webb visited Deupree in his Pound Ridge home, and the two wrote “a very spontaneous and natural album,” as Deupree told me in my interview, “that was really about our experiences over a couple of days outdoors in the winter forests near my house.” As suggested by the title, the music on Wood, Winter, Hollow captures the natural field recordings of hibernating wildlife and capricious weather, carefully sprinkled with strums of nylon string guitar, gentle bells, melodica and the sounds of crunching snow. The music is contemplative, calm and reserved, at times reflecting on the surrounding environmental damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. Even the thoughts of the hydrophones in the ice-covered creek give me the chills. Like a sound postcard, preserving a time, a place, and a memory, the album manages to document a unique collaboration between two of my favorite sculptors and archivists. A must for any avid 12k fan and collector!

great,a new release out from NY finest musician !