{"title":"Fresh Hold","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"helen-ripley-marshall-green-chaos-lp","title":"Helen Ripley-Marshall - Green Chaos LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAustralian ambient electronic album \u003cem data-start=\"36\" data-end=\"49\"\u003eGreen Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e, reissued for the first time on vinyl LP. Originally released in 1988 on Sydney based private press label Freefall, \u003cem data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"179\"\u003eGreen Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e marks the sole release from Ripley-Marshall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late '80s Ripley-Marshall lived a Bohemian lifestyle in inner city Sydney; \"surrounded by musicians, actors and artists, there was an amazing creative experimental vibe going on.\" While playing in new wave\/art rock band D Face she began \u003cem data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"482\"\u003eGreen Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e as a personal project to counteract the creative friction sometimes experienced within a group dynamic, heavily inspired by Arnold Frolows' \"Ambience\" radio show on Australia's Triple J and particularly the music of Tangerine Dream, Harold Budd, and Brian Eno.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInitially a solitary endeavor, once she decided to record in a studio \u003cem data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"827\"\u003eGreen Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e morphed into a somewhat collaborative, improvisational project with other musicians invited into the studio to improvise and add their own interpretations and ideas, additional layers and dimensions, resulting in a work that combines a clear influence from the electronic repetition of the Berlin school with a meandering, futuristic lyricism. Although influenced by the long form sonic journeys of artists like Tangerine Dream, Ripley-Marshall's background in art rock and new wave brings a more concise approach, each song a self-contained universe that says only what is necessary in the arrangement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter completing a sound engineering course Ripley-Marshall recorded the album at Sydney's Exeter House Studio over several months alongside studio engineer Andrew Knight, met through a fellow member of D Face. Knight ran Freefall, a private press recording label releasing folk and bluegrass music, which had \u003cem data-start=\"1742\" data-end=\"1755\"\u003eGreen Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e as its sole ambient release. Ripley-Marshall self-distributed the album to local inner city record stores and dropped a copy to Triple J, where it became a regular staple of Arnold Frolows' show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese days Ripley-Marshall has moved away from music and is predominantly focused on visual art. \u003cem data-start=\"2049\" data-end=\"2062\"\u003eGreen Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e stands as the only released product of her musical years, both a personal window into the vibrant experimental art scene of late 1980s Sydney and a deep, timeless anomaly of Australian electronic music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fresh Hold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52809897181481,"sku":"FH003LP","price":34.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1427\/6532\/files\/helen-ripley-marshall-green-chaos-lp.jpg?v=1773149331"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.strandedrecords.com\/collections\/fresh-hold.oembed","provider":"Stranded Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}