Bob Ebeling 'Dreams Of Farms' LP Experimental Space Ambient Shoegaze Psychedelic Full Album

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Bob Ebeling 'Dreams Of Farms' LP
1. Dreams Of Farms Pt.1
2. Lake Under River
3. AM
4. Cathedral Woods
5. Open Mountain
6. Dreams Of Farms Pt.2

Photography
The woods photographed by Bob Ebeling
Bob Ebeling photographed by Rachel Hinojosa
Rachel Hinojosa photos manipulated by Cyrus Karimipour

About the album:
I had a very vivid dream about a farm getting hit by a tornado and then hanging out and helping the old farmer after. I ended up finding what was probably the closest farm in location to the dream and sure enough it looked hit by a tornado but there was no farmer, it was abandoned, the barns caved in and the old farmhouse burned down. The big find here though was the large intact 1950's silo.
I became a little obsessed with field recording a few years back and the silo ended up being part of that obsession-- I could set up inside the grand echo chamber silo and record. I started to make a daily visit to the silo, feed birds around the abandoned farm, record birds with my field recorder set up (a Tascam, but using a sweet 1960's/70's Schoeps stereo condenser microphone). I started feeding a stray cat during the winter there and kept on making use of the silo for recording purposes-- expanding the uses to pumping mixes out of a battery powered radio, recording the ambiance in the silo and taking that home and adding the ambience back into the mix. I started hanging out there after dark and taking long aperture photos in the dark. My camera would do up to 8 seconds of open aperture and I started to get good at capturing the right amount of light in the dark. I especially liked windy rainy nights for extra trippy figured photos.
The photos on this video are from one of those windy rainy nights. The location is near an old flour mill a few miles down the road from the farm. It seemed every time I photographed this woods on a river bank I would see the figures of a ghostly woman. There are ghost stories about the mill already. Another fellow woods walker told me a girl committed suicide there. I told my high school buddy who is familiar with the area about the trippy results I was getting and he instantly recalled, 'yeah, there's a really trippy looking tree right there.' Indeed, one of the trees looks like a witch standing there. On rainy windy nights the small evergreens appear to take on alien and woman shapes.
As for the music-- the Silo and the mill and the surrounding area play a huge role. The intro to 'AM' is performed on a battery powered poetry synth from Japan inside the Silo. There are several passages of a Wood Thrush bird singing in the spring-- one of the most musical birds there are. It was a deep pleasure to find that guy singing for a mate at sundown night after night. He gave me several chances to perfect my technique and get closer to him. It even seemed like as soon as I'd get the mic set up he'd come right in and start. He features in 'Cathedral Woods' and in other places on the record.
I ended up going out daily looking for great sounding birds and worked on getting close to them with the mic. Many to feast your ears on. It was thrilling for me to be able to add one to my personal library or whatever piece of music I was working on.
When I get obsessed and deep into working on one piece of music my mind will integrate any other melodic stuff I hear and sort of audition it as possible melody in the song. Nature is amazing at seemingly matching up haunting melodies. When you are in that place where your head music and nature seem to be synching up completely, I can only describe that as a spiritual experience. Many of these magical afternoons and evenings are sewn into this record. Anything can be music if it's personal enough, if it means something to the musician playing it.