Folklore Tapes presents EMM (Environmental Meditation Music) a new label set up to research more ambient explorations, head researcher David Chatton Barker has composed the first release titled 'Natonal Drips' more information can be found below:

NOTES ON ENVIRONMENTAL MEDITATION MUSIC

EMM...is music recorded in nature and played by nature.

EMM...is an exploration of natones; nature-made tones. ‘Natonal Music’. EMM...is intervention music, that is, handmade ritual instruments placed within the landscape and played by natural elements rather than human touch.

EMM...is intended to be used for meditation.

EMM...invites the rhythms and gestures of nature into your ears and body. EMM...is always intended to last for a minimum of ten minutes. EMM...can be supernatural.

EMM...urges the listener to visit the place of the original recording. Each edition comes with a map showing exactly where the sites are. EMM...accepts the natural course of things.

EMM...like nature is indeterminate.

EMM...is a series in which all the maps joined together reveal a hid- den location, only with all the maps (or luck) can this site be found. EMM...is intended to help people become more sensitive to the en- vironment and our important role within it, alongside all other (living and non-living) things.

EMM...always includes a specimen from the site.

EMM...encourages listening to the tracks in different ways; inside and outside, with eyes open and closed, sitting and lying etc.