AztecCormorant

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AztecCormorant
Studio album by Matthew Gilbert Linley
Released January, 2014
Recorded London, 2011 - 2013
Genre Psychedelic music, dream pop, shoegazing, Folktronica
Length32:54
Producer Matthew Gilbert Linley
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AztecCormorant is the third full-length studio album by London-based composer/producer Matthew Gilbert Linley, and was released in January 2014 under the same project name. [1] The tracks 'And Lo' and 'In Serenades' were featured on Tom Robinson's July and November 2014 BBC 6 Music Mixtapes. [2] [3]

Gilbert is the performance name of Matthew Gilbert Linley, a London-based composer and musician. He is also the drummer in Engineers with Mark Peters and Ulrich Schnauss.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Alight!"4:16
2."You Always Left"3:27
3."Cormorant Flying"2:48
4."And Lo"2:52
5."In Serenades"3:21
6."Ritornello"3:24
7."Interlude"2:31
8."A Lock Of Your Hair"3:14
9."Novus Ordo Mundi"4:37
10."Reprise"2:24

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Mark Peters is a musician, songwriter and producer who has mainly created music for the band Engineers. He has also collaborated with the electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss on two albums; Underrated Silence and Tomorrow Is Another Day, before releasing collaborations with Elliot Ireland, formerly of the British band Shaft, and Salt Rush .Hes brother is Daniel Alemany

Engineers (band)

Engineers are a British shoegazing/dream pop band. The band was formed in London in 2003 by bassist/guitarist/keyboardist Mark Peters, singer/guitarist Simon Phipps, bassist/guitarist Dan MacBean, and drummer Andrew Sweeney. After the release of their second album Three Fact Fader in 2009, MacBean and Sweeney left the band, and were replaced by bassist/vocalist Daniel Land, drummer Matthew Linley, and keyboardist Ulrich Schnauss. Phipps and Land would later leave the band before the release of 2014's Always Returning. Engineers' sound has been described as "hazy, ethereal, and atmospheric," and the band often cites the works of The Beach Boys, Brian Eno, Cocteau Twins, Spiritualized, and Pink Floyd as influences.

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