{"id":1073,"date":"2025-07-24T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:39:05","slug":"patience-and-shuffle-the-cards-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/patience-and-shuffle-the-cards-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience And Shuffle The Cards &#8211; New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-Patience-And-Shuffle-The-Cards.flac\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Patience And Shuffle The Cards<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release date: July 25th  &#8211; CD in digipack + Bandcamp downloads and streaming services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I first came across the phrase <strong>Patience And Shuffle The Cards<\/strong> in the diaries of Sir Walter Scott, although I later learned that it originates in Don Quixote.\u00a0 It is a sort of resigned \u2018well, let\u2019s see what happens\u2019 where the outcome is uncertain and possibly not totally under your control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But unlike my previous releases, <strong>Saint-Ex<\/strong> and <strong>The Halls Of Piranesi<\/strong>, this collection is not based on a work of literature, but springs from my further exploration of synths and sequencers.&nbsp; The opening track <strong>Black Water Whitewater <\/strong>involves layers of cascading sequences of differing lengths, like the mountain stream that inspired it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living as I do in the East Anglian Fens, the track <strong>Fenlandia<\/strong> was inspired by the landscape and I put together a photo montage of Fenland views and wildlife, being also a keen photographer of insects in particular. Top and tailing this are <strong>Big Skies<\/strong>, parts one and two, floaty ambient cloudscapes which are a feature of the fens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stone Soup<\/strong> &#8211; often tracks begin with a simple sequence which only gradually takes form with the addition of other elements \u2013 the title refers to the folk tale where a traveller arrives in a village with no food but just a cooking pot and a stone.&nbsp; Villages intrigued as to what dish he would produce simply boiling a stone, start to offer other ingredients until a hearty dish is produced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We Are On This Earth . . .<\/strong> sometimes it feels a little strange to be tucked away in my room surrounded by synths indulging myself in music production when there is so much awful stuff going on in the world.&nbsp; I have therefore to hold to the wise words of Kurt Vonnegut \u2018<em>I tell you, we are on Earth to fart around, and don\u2019t let anyone tell you many different\u2019.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Creeping Thanatos<\/strong> \u2013 I don\u2019t like this \u2018getting old\u2019 business . . . when mortality comes into sharper focus and you realise that things that you remember clearly, actually happened decades ago, which often leads to . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sleepless \u2013 3am<\/strong> \u2013 these days I often wake up at 3am and sometimes have musical ideas and sequences running round my head, but also lots of other unwanted stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What The Moon Brings (Instrumental)<\/strong> \u2013 this is an instrumental version of a track from my H.P.L.E P. (see my Bandcamp) \u2013 I liked the spookiness of the track and felt it fitted in nicely to close this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For synth nerds: Eurorack modular, Korg ARP 2600, Moog Subharmonicon, Syntrx II Sequencers: Klee, Erica Synths Black Sequencer, Arturia Keystep 37. FX include Wellspring Delay\/Reverb, Nightverb &amp; many plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Patience-composite-1024x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1076\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release date: July 25th &#8211; CD in digipack + Bandcamp downloads and streaming services I first came across the phrase Patience And Shuffle The Cards in the diaries of Sir Walter Scott, although I later learned that it originates in Don Quixote.\u00a0 It is a sort of resigned \u2018well, let\u2019s see what happens\u2019 where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,77,34,8,44,76,15],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-cd","tag-download","tag-electronic-music","tag-eurorack","tag-sequencer","tag-streaming","tag-synthesizer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williegeemusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}