Catalogue No. - JAMS CD7

Waiting (43min 19s)

Format - CD-r

Released 23rd August 1997

Waiting is  a forty minute impression of The KLF's eight day visit to the Isle of Jura off the west coast of Scotland in spring 1990. The KLF's original plan on visiting Jura was to take their mobile studio Trancentral and record an album entitled "Gate". Instead they spent their time waiting... Waiting for the tide to turn on an almost motionless sea... Waiting for the sun to sink beyond the mountains of the western isles... Waiting for the stars to stud the darkening sky...Waiting for the dawn to creep in from the east... But maybe more importantly, waiting as emotions within themselves shifted and changed, stirred and settled.

Along with all this poetic stuff they continued to wait for all the trivial things in life that we seem to spend so much of life waiting for: kettles to boil, phones to ring, baths to run, moods to pass, something to happen or at least some sort of explanation.

While waiting for this explanation The KLF took their equipment up onto the moors. Using a small diesel generator they proceeded to interact with the environment, first recording the sounds around them (wind, birds, cattle, the generator...) then with chunks of pre-recorded music and segments of their own compositions they used their method of composing, compiling and collating these different sounds, carefully building a complete original work.

"Waiting" is every bit an ambient classic with it's sonic sculpture as invigorating as a 19th Century watercolour painters sketchbook full of freeform washes.

WARNING:
THIS IS NOT THE WHITE ROOM
OUT OF PRINT
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