The Last Frost Fair, by Robin Parmar

The Last Frost Fair

by Robin Parmar

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With purchase you will receive the bonus album "Periphery", containing the original mixes of the same source material. This four-track album was circulated privately in 1999, but has never been released to the public. Both albums come complete with cover art and liner notes.

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1.	A Fog From All Around 04:59	buy track
2.	The Inverted Year 07:51	buy track
3.	Darkness That Might Be Felt 08:19	buy track
4.	Ice Like Adamant 06:48	buy track
5.	Frostiana 06:03	buy track
6.	The Great Thaw 04:35	buy track
7.	Nothing in the Memory 05:25	buy track

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It's early in the morning, in that special hour of quiet when nothing stirs. Outside the space that defines home, the world is dark. The house settles fractionally into the earth. In this year nineteen-ninety-three it seems certain that nothing will ever change. All futures are written. Destiny is frozen.

I am listening to music using the popular medium of the time, the compact disc. This particular disc becomes stuck, repeating a short recycled loop for a minute. Then the laser shifts lazily onwards, only to get stuck again a moment later.

Transfixed, I listen. The world is frozen. The hour is eternal. Crystalline sounds circle my head in a beautiful array of ever-changing stasis.

Eventually the looping ends. Sound stops. I take note of my surroundings, rise to my feet, walk over to the CD player, and power the unit down.

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released December 27, 2020

Created by Robin Parmar at Studio Ubiquity, Canada and Ireland, in 1999 and 2019.

Finalised and released in 2020.

Design from a poster for the London Frost Fair of 1683.

Stolen Mirror 2020D02.

Visit stolenmirror.com.

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Robin Parmar Limerick, Ireland

Robin Parmar is an electroacoustic composer, improviser, and sound artist based in Ireland. His pieces have been played in Canada, United States, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, England, Germany, and Sweden.

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