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A Sea Without Memory

by David Helpling

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The Green Kingdom One of the best guitar-based ambient albums you'll ever hear. Beautifully melodic loops floating on a drifty, dreamy sea.
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powerjakz To me, the essence of peace and tranquility is being in a state of “calm mental drift”. This album (“A Sea Without Memory”), like David’s and Jon’s other albums, get me to that special state of mind almost immediately. An out-of-body mental journey unimpeded by other sensory input. A journey purely of mind, drifting peacefully from one note, phrase, chord, theme, ambient realm to another. No other sensory input a human can experience compares. These aural journeys induce a state of true singularity!
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Alex What David does as an artist, it does blend well with my inner being. I do not have to 'put on and out' anything or to pretend to be a connoisseur. It flows like a peaceful breathing meditation and keeps one awoken to a mesmerizing beauty of unpredictable changes, so even if there' some alarming nuance creeping in, you still know that you're in good hands till this particular journey ends.
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A Sea Without Memory is David Helpling’s first ever solo ambient guitar album. The music, created live using only electric guitar and a series of custom programmed effects processors, is the culmination of the signature ambient guitar sound he has been refining throughout his entire career.

The project began in late 2016 when, while at work on his next solo release, Helpling set aside some time to create and share weekly ambient guitar improvisations in a YouTube series he called Sunday Loops. Pure, deeply personal and heartfelt, these short, single-take vignettes have been shared with the world almost every Sunday night for nearly a full year. The response to these ambient guitar explorations has been overwhelming, and there have been many requests to release them as an official album.

However, rather than simply compiling the Sunday Loops and releasing them as a collection of stand alone tracks, there was a desire to craft a unique experience from a careful selection of the material and tell a more expansive story, so David’s friend and long time collaborator Jon Jenkins began to blend the tracks together, combining the original pieces into meaningful longer passages, and at that point the vision became clear. “After hearing what Jon had in mind for the direction of this release, I was inspired and intrigued,” David explains. “I started hearing everything as if for the first time. The story was all there, and it felt like a complete album.”

With the Sunday Loops at its core, this new release was born from a desire to step out of a comfort zone and create music without forethought or scripting. The creative process was additionally inspired by the visual images of Shawn Malone, many of which are found in the accompanying digital booklet. Helpling would imagine cold and solitary places while letting the music flow and unfold…like an aural time-lapse composition.

Helpling’s textural guitar soundscapes have become a definitive sound and something woven throughout almost all of his music, but not since the track “Loss Of Words” from his 1996 debut Between Green And Blue, has he created and released ambient guitar music as a solo presentation. “Hearing the sounds that are so personal and important to me in a fully focused long form listening experience is so powerful and exciting,” he comments. “In most of my work, ambient guitar is just one layer of many, so to have it stand alone and bring a compelling experience to the listener is a big deal. This may be the purest form of music I have ever created.”

A Sea Without Memory is a sharing, a story in watercolor told through the deep and textured hues of ambient guitar. Melancholy, shimmering and wondrous, this experience is not a journey, but rather an unfolding of events that approach, surround, then move beyond the listener, delivering a constant flow of dreamlike moments that slowly dissolve into the next wave of sound.

Be still in the space, and let A Sea Without Memory slowly color your world.

Other Albums by David Helpling:

SLEEPING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
ambientelectronic.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-on-the-edge-of-the-world

BETWEEN GREEN AND BLUE
ambientelectronic.bandcamp.com/album/between-green-and-blue

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released July 7, 2017

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Other Albums by David Helpling & Jon Jenkins

FOUND
ambientelectronic.bandcamp.com/album/found

THE CROSSING
helpling-jenkins.bandcamp.com/album/the-crossing

TREASURE
ambientelectronic.bandcamp.com/album/treasure

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David Helpling California

As a young teen, David Helpling pushed himself to learn guitar – experimenting with various effects and signal processors to create illusions with sound. Together with his passion for synthesizers and percussion, this guitar sound became centric to a complete vision and musical style that expresses sonic moods with a definite soundtrack feel. ... more

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