Carpet - Nature's Habits

Salisbury based band ‘Carpet’ release their new album ‘Nature’s Habit’

Fascination with hypnotic sounds and music that is transportive, were some of the aims of the music on this album. We built a link between this idea and what we considered the neolithic people may have experienced in celebration or meditation thousands of years ago.

Other experiments took place with drones and found sounds. We made recordings of machines and engines; we made recordings of rivers and nature. All of these collected sounds provided a backdrop for the
hypnotic rhythms and trippy sounds that we layered together to create an experimental immersive whole.

In the middle of all this recording activity we played a live gig supporting Carlton Melton and the evening before the gig Daz suggested that we make use of a singer he had discovered working in a restaurant that night. This was Dinto – who provided words and vocals on the title track. We decided to make more use of words and have guests speak them for us. Once again we made use of Cynthia Van Eden who came in to the studio and recorded drums over some basic rhythm ideas that had been made using drum machines alongside synthesisers and guitar. We also invited Nathan Daniel who provided Moss Deluxe.

In the mix, some of the sounds were deliberately degraded while we focussed on inner space, ancient thinking and abstraction.