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Building the Cathedral
Electronica / Ambient / Experimental

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United Kingdom

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Member Since2/21/2007
Band Websitewww.buildingthecathedral.com
Band MembersWraith Racasan - Ambient/loop based guitar.
InfluencesBrian eno Robert fripp Harold budd Carl Orff juno reactor john fox Durutti Column Boards of Canada Trey Gunn Porcupine tree Bill Nelson Sigur Ros Mogwai Solar Fields Ghostfriend Autechre Portishead Plaid Ulrich Schnauss Lfo David torn Roedelius Cluster Harmonia Mick karn Steve Roach Porcupine tree Philip Glass Arvo part Stephan Micus Tape looping, Quantum Mechanics, Electronic Music, Musique Concrete,ethereal Sounds, Voices, Musique Concrete, Found Sounds Sound Sculpture delia darbishire elend Coil Tholen ASMOROD lustmord KARJALAN SISSIT Paul Mercer Cyclic Law COLD SPRING SUN RA david sylvian This Mortal Coil Alban Berg Arnold Schoenberg Anton Webrn Heinrich Jalowetz Erwin Stein Egon Wellesz Eduard Steuermann Hanns Eisler Rudolf Kolish Karl Rankl Josef Rufer Viktor Ullmann Alexander_Zemlinsky Winfried_Zillig Roberto_Gerhard Norbert_von_Hannenheim Nikolaos_Skalkottas John_Cage Leon_Kirchner Gerald Strang Glenn_Gould Hans_Erich_Apostel René Leibowitz Leopold_Spinner Ludwig_Zenk

When I was a child my grandma had an old upright piano, I found that if I stood on the peddle and played the two lowest notes on the keyboard, first one and then the other, between those two notes are other sounds resonating in-between and through the gross stuff of the bass notes. That resonance, those sounds could take me to other worlds like no other thing could. Well that’s what Building The Cathedral Sounds like (only now with more notes)

Another reflection on what “Building The Cathedral” is about.

When I was a young man, I remember being in a bus station late one stormy January night listening to the wind literally howling around the large concrete pillars and vibrating the iron railings in that place.

The sounds the storm created that night, where lonely beautiful and chaotic, a sound track for that time and that place and for my mood.

And so with “Building The cathedral” I am recapturing that night, a wind (actually a storm some days) from who knows where is blowing through a man made structure, that is to say my techniques and skills, to pass that night on to others.


I have a review in Bad Acid at www.myspace.com/badacidmagazine
Sounds LikeHauntingly beautiful synthetic guitar, loops and samples. Frippertronics. Soundscapes. Tape looping, Quantum Mechanics, Electronic Music, Musique Concrete,ethereal Sounds, Voices, Musique Concrete, Found Sounds, space, the cosmos, Nature sounds & noise, the sounds of water and the sea soundscapes, beatless, loops, drone, atmospheric, experimental, dark ambient, ambient , Sound Sculpture, Steven Halpern, david sylvian, Space guitar
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   About Building the Cathedral

The Wintergate Available from CDbaby
The Wintergate Available from Itunes

Building The Cathedral Available from CDbaby

Building The Cathedral Available from Itunes

Under The Aurora Available from CDbaby
Under The Aurora Available from Itunes


12 moons Available from CDbaby
12 moons Available from Itunes


A gathering of dark angels Available from CDbaby
A Gathering Of Dark Angels Available from Itunes

Ok I am also involved with A Better Blue if you like what im doing here you might like the e-bow work on that


Ok I now have a web site buildingthecathedral.com I have a download section where I have provide the albums I currently have. This is a donation based system So feel free to point your browsers at it and have a look Feel free to provide any feed back here on myspace regarding the site or the music


For most of my life I have lived in an area dedicated to heavy industry of one kind or another, mines, steel mills, wire factory’s and the trains on which I used to work. So the sound of metal screaming crashing, banging, sometimes being destroyed sometimes being turned into something new. The heavy engines’ moving coal and people around was a major part of my life. Then a day came when I heard for what seemed like first time the beauty of all this sound. For a while it sounded like I was in some vast cathedral, which was constantly under construction.

I decide to capture some of what I heard that day in these musical constructions, by using loops, synthesizes and samples all controlled by a guitar synth, interspersed in heavily distorted electric guitar

Why loops, well because engines move in circles it seemed to be natural for the project but I added some spice to this by arranging the loops not to trigger on a known metre and this added an element of surprise (well surprise to me) to the tracks and took them into strange directions.

I have always been better at expressing myself on the guitar than keyboard and to find how far midi guitars have come since I last looked to get one came as a complete surprise. With the ability to attach the guitar to a computer opens up a whole world of possibilities in music creation.

Well The second CD is out
Beautiful long evolving guitar synth loops and samples with sci-fi flavour this time.
This, the second project CD extends my work in the area of loops and sample but this time I have created huge developing sounds to live in my cathedral environment.

Oh and if anyone’s wondering,

I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in Finland!

I live about 70km north of Lahti and have come to accept –20 deg c. as a civilised temperature.


Building The Cathedral can also be found at www.betarecords.com/building.the.cathedral

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Jul 4 2009 11:32 AM

Excellent week-end!

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Jun 28 2009 10:44 PM

Electronica - with a message ;)
some good sounds, pulls you in...

Love Travel, Love Learning,
Love just being 'out there'...

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Rock 'n Ride !!
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Jun 26 2009 1:50 PM

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Continuer à parler de la belle conception de Carlo Raffalli, née avec les problèmes d'aujourd'hui, même parmi nos enfants, le sentiment est un message d'énergie positive dans la musique, de ne pas abuser de la drogue et l'alcool , nous pouvons trouver dans le milieu de la mer et ne pas savoir où aller ou pour trouver une montagne à gravir, mais tout peut être surmonté si nous avons des sentiments et l'amour pour la vie!
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Jun 26 2009 12:42 PM

Hello !!!
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Jun 25 2009 9:05 AM

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Jun 23 2009 4:22 PM

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Jun 23 2009 4:33 AM

Gracias por la acogida que nos disteis en BASSMENT celebrada en la sala DEEP y por la cual os doy infinitas gracias.En esta ocasion te mando una INVITACION para la inauguracion de ALLSTARS, fiesta ya conocida por todos y que en esta ocasion se celebra en la sala Pirandello 2, calle Ventura Rodriguez 7. detras de plaza de España.
Los Srs. KIKE PANIC, MIGUEL GOLDITO, JUSH, FREEMAN Y DAVID ROMERO nos tienen preparada una gran seleccion musical para empezar de la mejor manera el primer viernes del verano.
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Jun 22 2009 10:59 AM

Dear friend
We are so happy to announce

NEW ALBUM IS OUT NOW!!!


Our new album "Herbarium" is out now on CdBaby (MP3 so far, physical CD is on its way).

Diverse palette of styles (post-rock, ambient, electronica, trip-hop, with elements of noise, dub, neoclassic and free improvisation), united by cinematic, slightly pensive mood.

«Herbarium» is called so because of heterogeneity of «songs», which can be compared to miscellaneous leaves in the album, still being belonged to the family of trees. Trying to avoid non-alive metaphors here, only thought of diversity and warm and innermost feeling that herbarium is capable to conjure up. «... This leaf I picked up in the park where I met her, and this - I sat by the river, contemplating...». So tracks were created – one was captured in some magic jam, another – recorded layer by layer and meticulously mixed then, next – cut from previous sessions and so on.

All compositions are united by Poostosh sense of music – mostly pensive, spatial, tender and experimental. There's a lot of soul and charisma in every leaf... So please let your soul look over our HERBARIUM.

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Jun 22 2009 10:00 AM

BRAZIL

                                  Thanks for the add peace and blessings to you.
                                                       Marie
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Jun 20 2009 5:08 PM

Welcome to myspace of MOCCA LOUNGE and thanx for ur friendship!

Album "MOCCA LOUNGE" is available at iTunes and Beatport.

Love&Peace

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Jun 20 2009 2:13 AM

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