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The Phantomatic Coast

by Conflux Coldwell

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kickingmachine Expertly arranged underwater ambient architecture, with the odd radar blip and the ghost of a melody occasionally poking through the sonic murk. Also avoids the tweeness that seems par for the course with many hauntological-labelled releases

An extraordinarily good and satisfying album, highly recommended for fearless sound adventurers everywhere. Favorite track: HMS Albion.
Michael J Bates
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Michael J Bates It has taken me a while to digest this LP.
It is quietly remarkable and astonishing in its ability to capture and distil the very essence of 'place', 'time' and 'experience' through the subtle use of sound architecture and mixing.
Within 'The Phantomatic Coast' we are treated to real and imagined areas, marked out in space with sonic signifiers of the past and present, which take us to futures constructed from unobtainable nostalgia.
Possessing this will possess you.
Favorite track: Scapa Flow Picnic.
BLeeK Swinney
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BLeeK Swinney Michael C Coldwell succeeded in making a dark ambient, hauntological masterpiece with the Phantomatic Coast. No track overstays its welcome and he fills them with so many intricate details and mysterious field recordings. Simultaneously intimate and cavernous.
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glue_factory I love this track. Hauntological but not just retro sounding. Touches of Biosphere I think Favorite track: On (Reclaimed) Land.
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Haunting soundtrack to Michael C Coldwell's award-winning film "Views from Sunk Island" (Best experimental short film Pennine Film Festival 2023) (private view included with the gatefold vinyl)
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"Views from Sunk Island” captures a fading coastline with the click of a slide projector. While elsewhere field recordings of waves foghorns and the shriek of seabirds make this hauntological seaside excursion captivatingly moody" Electronic Sound Magazine

"The sound pieces balance subtle tension with fleeting melody; the ghostly synths drenched in sea spray perfectly capturing the past in the present" 9/10 The Letter

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The East Coast of England is a land living on borrowed time. Time we borrowed from the North Sea, reclaimed a thousand years ago. But now it seems that sea has come to claim it all back. Michael C Coldwell spent three years travelling up and down this rapidly disappearing shoreline, collecting ghost stories, photographing the roads to nowhere, the monumental sound mirrors and pillboxes teetering on the edges of cliffs, making field recordings of the waves and fog signals, and writing mournful electronic music from static caravans. This hauntological project finally culminated in a short essay film entitled Views from Sunk Island - and this new Conflux Coldwell album. 
 
More than just a film score, The Phantomatic Coast stretches beyond the original aims of the documentary, to evoke something deeper about our troubled relationship with the sea – the many towns and ships lost beneath the waves, and ancient forgotten lands lying out beyond the windfarms like some Yorkshire Atlantis. Memory and mythology became obvious themes in the work, as did the ruins and remains of the world wars, now slipping beneath shifting sands forever.
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Includes PDF link & password to private view & free download of the film "Views From Sunk Island (2022)" by Michael C Coldwell

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released September 23, 2022

Music written and produced by Michael C. Coldwell (Conflux Coldwell)
Field recordings by Urban Exploration Collective
Original photography by Michael C. Coldwell
Mastering and design by Dan Seville (Subexotic)

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Conflux Coldwell Leeds, UK

Michael "Conflux" Coldwell is a musician and artist from Leeds UK.

He is part of the Urban Exploration collective and works at the University of Leeds, where he conducts research into the hauntology of media.

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