{"product_id":"green-chaos","title":"Green Chaos","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFresh Hold Releases presents Helen Ripley-Marshall's mysterious Australian ambient electronic album \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\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\u003eGreen Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e marks the sole release from Ripley-Marshall.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the late 80's 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewave\/art rock band \"D Face\" she began \u003cem\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInitially a solitary endeavour, once she decided to record in a studio \u003cem\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\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\u003eGreen Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e as its sole ambient release. Ripley-Marshall self distributed the album to local inner city \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erecord stores and dropped a copy to Triple J, where it became a regular staple of Arnold Frolows' show. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese days Ripley-Marshall has moved away from music and is predominantly focused on visual art. \u003cem\u003eGreen Chaos \u003c\/em\u003estands 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fresh Hold Releases","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56745620078923,"sku":"R4911-1126","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_f39b1d4f-9171-4374-a1fe-b13eb99c4da5.jpg?v=1772968800","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/green-chaos","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}