Crystallized in the Axial Civilizations

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	1.	Degree of Reflexivity 04:54
	2.	Core Transcendental Visions 06:09
	3.	Very Givenness of Such Visions 11:27
	4.	Institutional Patterns 07:52
	5.	Possibility of Multiple Visions 07:19
	6.	Basic Ontological Conceptions 08:02
	7.	Belong to Wider Translocal Communities 10:00
	8.	Components of the Modern Project 06:58
	9.	Early Studies of Modernization 04:41

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Both the album and the track titles were taken from an extract of “Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities” by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (an Israeli sociologist) used by my daughter for one of her university readings. She read this out to the family during a train journey and I have to confess that, not being versed in Sociology, it meant absolutely nothing to me. But I did think they would make great track names for my music so, over the next two years, the album “Crystallized in the Axial Civilizations” began to take shape with the nine other phrases picked up from the extract of Eisenstadt’s book.

During this time I heard of the Strava jogging app producing a heat map of all the routes in the world where people were running (see www.strava.com/heatmap). When I looked at the heat map for my home city of Sheffield, the resulting patterns reminded me of crystals, which fitted very nicely into the ethos of the album, and so I used it as the cover.

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released April 12, 2020

Produced with Ableton 9, Bastl Kastl, & iPad Mini (running a number of apps including AUM, Kaldron, Duplicat, Xynthesizr, Tap Delay, Thumbjam and others).

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A Collection of Notes Sheffield, UK

Classic synth/ambient electronic music.

The ability to create music that both incorporates and reflects the physical environment is one of principle sources of inspiration.

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