Later Days. Songs of the Watchmaker. CD order this item Wayne Jackson (aka Later Days) is intrigued by the complexity of emergent systems, both natural and computational. In the summer, this fascination leads him to create obscure computer music software. In the winter, it sends him outside to hunt mushrooms. Songs of the Watchmaker is his debut full-length, which follows his 3”CD (Do, 2000) on the esteemed Irish label Fallt. Working with his own custom built software, Wayne has created a sinister yet playful album of squiggly audio drawings harvested from his sonic garden. 1. evlmx 15 2. Differentiation 3. Family Inharmonic 4. Squiggle for Sol 5. Audiomata 6. Events at Zyzzyx 7. evlmx 6 8. Untitled 9. Mote :| design by Cataract Press + evolved & arranged by Later Days + mastered @ Scarcelight, April 2004

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Later Days, aka Wayne Jackson, is a good hearty DIYer -- Songs of the Watchmaker was composed using software he developed himself. "Composed" may seem a little grand, but "written" doesn't come within miles of conveying the clinical, deconstructed yet painstakingly deliberate nature of this very aptly named record. Songs is undeniably computer music, but its interlocking components -- an insectile whine here, a subterranean rumbling there -- evoke the mechanical rather than the digital. Later Days is hardly machinelike, though. Even when "Audiomata"'s layered squiggles are at their most detached, they manage a certain liveliness; Jackson shapes his zeroes and ones into anthropomorphized robots and creatures. Elsewhere, it's an even less antiseptic environment. In "Differentiation", the initial soup of low-key bleeps and whinges develops into a summer-airplane drone, which in turn gives way to a frantic, gabbling scree, which builds up to a spectacularly glitchy crescendo of ultra-sped-up delay. "Family Inharmonic" changes gears completely, using breathy synth pads to create an icily lovely world. Some of Jackson's more retro sounds bring to mind old-school modular synthesizers; "Squiggle for Sol" resembles a soundtrack to a 1960s educational film about computers. The Scarcelight label isn't known for its poppiness, and Songs of the Watchmaker is no exception. If you're looking for recognizable "songs", steer clear -- but if you dig oddly beautiful, sometimes maddening sonic sculpture that inspires interesting visions in your head, this is for you. Sarah Zachrich, Splendid E-Zine Songs of the Watchmaker's liner note clarifies that it was “evolved and arranged” by Later Days (Wayne Jackson), a detail that's not insignificant considering how much its material sounds like it was nurtured or coaxed into life. For a debut full-length (following a 3-inch Fällt CDR released in 2000), Jackson shows remarkably poise in maintaining his m -------------------------------------------------- Paid Advertisement Links Below -------------------------------------------------- Checks By Phone | Verify a Check | Reorder Checks | Routing Number | Check Verification | BIN Database | | Recycle Food Waste Boston | Check By Phone Software Reviews | Short Term Furnished Allston | SWIFT Code Database |