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Far From the Hearth

by Jonathan Ammons

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1.
Far From the Hearth 02:13
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2.
Out Past the Reef 03:38
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3.
Plucking Every Feather 03:54
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4.
Rince Caillte 03:16
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Alpenglow 04:04
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6.
Walking Home 03:37
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7.
Just Walk Out 03:35
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8.
Starving Through Your Space Race 02:58
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9.
The Hunter Sets the Bait 04:23
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10.
The Crooked Tree That Marks the Trail 03:49
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11.
Falling Up a Hill 03:59
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12.
Someone Else's Epiphany 03:48
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about

"I’ve always found it odd how most instrumental music seems to have some kind of narrative. Sure, a vocal song tells a story through it’s words, but it also does so through the music. There is rising action and falling action, tension and release, a hardening and eventually a softening. And the same goes for instrumental music. Most modern instrumental music that we hear is usually tied to a movie or TV show, and so it is even more tethered to a narrative, sometimes so much so, that when we hear the music we can picture the images from the screen.

For the most part, ambient and drone music is not as narrative, or at least it was not originally built to be. Harold Budd always described his music as landscapes. If a pop song is a snapshot of a situation, than Budd’s is a rendering of the environment. It seems to capture the state of being more than convey a story.

I like that a lot, and for the most part, it has guided my approach to instrumental music. But as I started making this record, I wondered if it couldn’t be both an immersive landscape and a narrative story? And so Far From the Hearth was born; a narrative soundtrack to an imagined landscape — a particularly cold and inhospitable one.

Most of these pieces were started on a four track tape machine loaded with a 5 second looped cassette. Instruments and sounds were recorded onto each channel, and then I’d play the four track like it’s own instrument, using the faders to cue in each of the sounds. Then I’d play over those performances with other instruments, some synthetic, others organic, to try to build the story and the sound.

I’ve always believed that story is something inherent in us, like it is something we cannot avoid. It can be hard to see a landscape and not imagine the things that happened there. Perhaps that is the folly of mankind, we are always trying to insert some kind of meaning into us being where we do not belong. And I hope that is what I have captured here, the folly of man, out in the wilderness, out beyond where he belongs, far from the hearth, deep in the unknown." — Jonathan Ammons

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released January 20, 2023

All music composed, written, and performed, by Jonathan Ammons
Additional strings by Olivia Springer
Mixed and mastered at Orchard View by Jonathan Ammons
©2023

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Jonathan Ammons Asheville, North Carolina

Jonathan Ammons is a journalist, writer, radio DJ, producer, and musician from Asheville, North Carolina. His music runs the gamut between electronic, indie rock, ambient, and Americana.

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