‘Pool’ is a collaborative album by multi-instrumentalist and Modern Nature member Jim Wallis and painter and guitarist Nick Goss. Inspired by Goss’s artistic residency on a tanker in the Adriatic sea; the seven ethereal and atmospheric pieces fuse ambient and experimental instrumental music with captured field recordings from the ship.
“Reflective, melancholic, insular and yet at peace with the world. A mesmerising, dream-like album” Future Music 10/10 Album of the Month
“Possessed of aquatic logic…its gentle ambience is quiescently becalming” Uncut 8/10
“A gorgeous meditation on life at sea” A Closer Listen
“A pleasingly gloopy marine-centric brain-bath” The Arts Desk
“Immersive, ocean-going, pastoral ambience” Backseat Mafia 8.4
“A captivating gem” Electronic Sound
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