{"id":263,"date":"2024-01-23T19:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T19:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2025-01-26T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:34:48","slug":"music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/?page_id=263","title":{"rendered":"Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/We-Are-OK-Ambient-Green-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/We-Are-OK-Ambient-Green-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/We-Are-OK-Ambient-Green-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/We-Are-OK-Ambient-Green-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/We-Are-OK-Ambient-Green-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/We-Are-OK-Ambient-Green.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>&#8216;Ambient Sessions &#8211; Green&#8217; &#8211; released January 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Countless evenings of ambient sessions, edited and blended together to make one long hour mix to lull you into a rigorous sense of security and well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideal music to wash the dishes to or even extreme yoga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/weareok\/ambient-sessions-1-green\/\">Stream it here on Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-mixcloud wp-block-embed-mixcloud wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ambient Sessions 1 - Green\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fweareok%2Fambient-sessions-1-green%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WE-ARE-OK-black-dub-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WE-ARE-OK-black-dub-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WE-ARE-OK-black-dub-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WE-ARE-OK-black-dub-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WE-ARE-OK-black-dub-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WE-ARE-OK-black-dub.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>&#8216;Dub Sessions &#8211; Black&#8217; &#8211; released November 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live session recorded at home studio in Amsterdam. Picking elements of earlier tracks and lots of new sections glued together by a lot of <em>you-just-made-that-up-on-the-spot-didn&#8217;t-you?<\/em> type shenanigans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally found use for my dog, as sleeve photo model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/weareok\/dub-sessions-black\/\">Stream it here on Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-mixcloud wp-block-embed-mixcloud wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dub Sessions - Black\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fweareok%2Fdub-sessions-black%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/An-Endless-Quiet-Night-In-WE-ARE-OK.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-305 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/An-Endless-Quiet-Night-In-WE-ARE-OK.png 1000w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/An-Endless-Quiet-Night-In-WE-ARE-OK-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/An-Endless-Quiet-Night-In-WE-ARE-OK-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/An-Endless-Quiet-Night-In-WE-ARE-OK-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>&#8216;An Endless Quiet Night In&#8217; &#8211; released March 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to make the tracks quite organic and etheral. The only rule was &#8216;no percussion&#8217;. Quite a few tracks didn&#8217;t make the cut. Behind the scenes of gentle music making lies a bloodbath of discarded tunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really like some of the post-Roxy stuff Eno did where he does these short pieces, usually very melodic and repetitive. Much of the music here would&#8217;ve started with me spending an evening jamming for 45 minutes and then the next day getting the best bits to form a distinct shorter piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/nl\/album\/an-endless-quiet-night-in\/1736007207?l=en-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stream on Apple Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/nl\/album\/amsterdam-field-recordings\/1696574841?l=en-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><br>\u200b<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3ZKAN2C82ArZvbaxawl2TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stream on Spotify<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/weareok.bandcamp.com\/album\/an-endless-quiet-night-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u200bBuy on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:56px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/weareok-com.preview-domain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Amsterdam-Field-recordings-album-cover-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Amsterdam-Field-recordings-album-cover-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Amsterdam-Field-recordings-album-cover-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Amsterdam-Field-recordings-album-cover-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Amsterdam-Field-recordings-album-cover-1-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>&#8216;Amsterdam Field Recordings&#8217; &#8211; released July 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022 I managed to get a detached retina (fun times!) which meant no screens (and hence no music) for some considerable time. I used this opportunity to travel around my city to record various sounds\/noises\/atmospheres (from church bells to metro trips to park scenes and more).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A collection of sounds for homesick Amsterdammers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/nl\/album\/amsterdam-field-recordings\/1696574841?l=en-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u200bStream on Apple Music<br>\u200b<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/0096vJMxnoHlhUkFt0LggZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stream on Spotify<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/weareok.bandcamp.com\/album\/amsterdam-field-recordings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u200bBuy on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/weareok-com.preview-domain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Low-Country-WEAREOK-Album-Cover-3k-x-3k-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-282 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Low-Country-WEAREOK-Album-Cover-3k-x-3k-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Low-Country-WEAREOK-Album-Cover-3k-x-3k-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Low-Country-WEAREOK-Album-Cover-3k-x-3k-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Low-Country-WEAREOK-Album-Cover-3k-x-3k-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Low-Country-WEAREOK-Album-Cover-3k-x-3k-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Low-Country-WEAREOK-Album-Cover-3k-x-3k-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;Low Country&#8217; &#8211; released February 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent the first few months of lockdown 2020 developing an unhealthy obsession with dub. Stripping back tracks to leave only the bare bones and then using tape delays to sending feedback slices and hits to the moon and back. How those days flew by. What virus? I was listening loads to King Tubby, Sly &amp; Robbie, Keith Hudson and particularly the &#8216;Berlin&#8217; dub-techno of Rhythm &amp; Sound, Purl, Heavenchord, Monolake and Deadbeat. All great stuff. They manage to make music sound so simple and effortless when I know (now) how tricky it is to get that balance of using space as much as sound itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/nl\/album\/low-country\/1554679203?l=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stream on Apple Music<br>\u200b<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3LP5KbR652GW1Tl5LXQQoG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stream on Spotify<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/weareok.bandcamp.com\/album\/low-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u200bBuy on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:36% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"402\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/weareok-com.preview-domain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hissy_Fits_screengrab.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hissy_Fits_screengrab.jpg 402w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hissy_Fits_screengrab-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hissy_Fits_screengrab-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>&#8216;Hissy Fits&#8217; &#8211; released April 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to challenge myself and give writing a &#8216;pop&#8217; album a really good go. It was probably the most time consuming project I&#8217;ve ever done. Took years of re-writes, tinkering, mixing, mastering. Had various musicians to help out (notably Kurt Weiss on trumpet, Katty Heath on vocals for &#8216;Cut It Out&#8217; and First Family Riot&#8217;s Ben on vocals for &#8216;Misinformation Housing Estate&#8217;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/nl\/album\/hissy-fits\/1512929281?l=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stream on Apple Music<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/5dIyvy2H3BiZgYtNFIrauW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stream on Spotify<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/weareok.bandcamp.com\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:36% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/weareok-com.preview-domain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Null_structures_cover_20160308-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Null_structures_cover_20160308-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Null_structures_cover_20160308-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Null_structures_cover_20160308-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Null_structures_cover_20160308-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Null_structures_cover_20160308-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/weareok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Null_structures_cover_20160308-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><br><strong>&#8216;Null Structures&#8217; &#8211; released March 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electronic melodies and atmospheres influenced and containing the sounds of the infamous shortwave radio \u2018number stations\u2019 of the cold war era and beyond. Legend has it that the broadcasts ranged from containing coded messages to spies to implicit instructions that if the broadcast could no longer be heard at a certain time then the listener would know that the transmitting party had a suffered a nuclear attack and a suitable military response was then required. They included the British Intelligence Service\u2019s \u2018Lincolnshire Poacher\u2019 and the mysterious Russian \u2018UVB-76\u2019 (broadcasting from 1973 to current).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;An Endless Quiet Night In&#8217; &#8211; released March 2024 I wanted to make the tracks quite organic and etheral. The only rule was &#8216;no percussion&#8217;. Quite a few tracks didn&#8217;t make the cut. Behind the scenes of gentle music making lies a bloodbath of discarded tunes. I really like some of the post-Roxy stuff Eno&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/weareok.com\/?page_id=263\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weareok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}