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"Refract", Nick Parkin's latest release on Soleilmoon Recordings, draws its inspiration from the movement of light and water. To create this album Parkin electroacoustically manipulated and blended a variety of gongs and other metallic percussion with environmental field recordings. It's eight tracks of intense, multi-layered work evoking hidden subterranean waters and gloomy oceanic depths, where shards of light only occasionally penetrate. Sonic images conjuring reverberant aquatic chambers, stormswept surfaces and horizons abound, while winds and other elemental phenomena bring about transmutations, distillations, evaporations and cycles of tides. This CD is presented in a standard jewelbox, in a limited edition of 500 copies. Nick Parkin works with a variety of dance and theatre companies in the UK and Europe. He studied Electroacoustic Composition at the University of East Anglia, and in 2001 won a first prize in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Competition. He has more than 10 solo and collaborative CD releases to his name now, and continues to specialize in electroacoustic compositions derived from landscapes, environments, and his interest in geology. His Soleilmoon releases include three solo albums, "Island of Dust", "Entropolis" and "Geomorphic Resonance", along with "Red Shift", a project recorded with Tom Gillieron (Day for Night, Southern Comforters).