'Night Of The Endless Beyond', the sophomore album by Lord Of The Isles AKA Neil McDonald for the ESP Institute, had almost become a mythical piece of work. The tracks very slowly crept into formation from the lowest depths of 2021, and once the completed album finally made the leap from creation into manufacturing, an entirely new onslaught of follies and delays awaited at the pressing plant. We began to laugh, for not only did Mario Hugo’s otherworldly sleeve artwork visually translate this music so well, but it was an uncanny premonition to the album being lost in space, falling through a black hole, evaporating into the aether like a dream that never really happened. But, at long last, ground control has confirmed contact! It did happen, it will arrive, and it’s not a myth.
	Listening to 'Night Of The Endless Beyond' now feels like the return of a strayed friend, one whose distance left us pining for an embrace. Although this Techno relies on unassuming means, there is a remarkably complex and persuasive emotional statement embedded here, insisting we learn to endure the long game and allow ourselves patience to investigate and appreciate the minutiae contained not only within the notes, but their negative space. From its introduction, through its mellow crests and valleys, there is a conveyance of restraint — subtle dynamics that quietly beg for attention, repetition so hypnotic that imaginary melodies are inescapable, transient peaks so deliberately scaled that we mourn the subsequent decay. In accordance with Neil’s ESP debut, 'In Waves', we never feel attacked by instrumentation but shielded from sharp edges, able to step inside the music, breathe the air it occupies and know its true intentions, whether bright or bleak.
	Just prior to the album close, a film dialogue excerpt summarizes everything quite honestly by proposing, “The truth of the universe is waiting … the truth of what is … it’s all going to go away … everything … into blackness … the void … and nobody is in charge.”
	“…and what do you do with that?”
	We stare long into the 'Night Of The Endless Beyond' and answer… “You smile.”

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S Sense 11.11.22

Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-14th-november-2022

The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville - 14th November 2022

We're buzzing buzz buzz to have our good friend Jenifa break her hiatus for a session on O to O. A true creative in many frontiers, this audio-visual wizard has been playing all around Helsinki and has become known as a soulful selector of house-y house. With a keen ear for a more worldly avenue of said genre, Jenifa effortlessly weaves together emotional yet wonderfully groovy cuts. Here's an hour of music that Jenifa represent the fruits of a short break in active gigging in order to find some new inspiring paths in music.

TRACKLIST:

Jon Hopkins - Sit Around The Fire
Matthew Halsall - Mindful Meditations
AHO - Wave (Ripple or Gesture)
Gewächshausgärtner - Kind (Johans Brav Remix)
George FitzGerald - Further and Further
Palma Dulce - Metodologia do Encanto
Burial, Four Tet - Moth
Herbert - Fantasy (Floating Points Remix)
Tim Engelhardt - Third Place
DJ Seinfeld - These Things Will Come To Be
WAKON - Tokyo Is Dying
Supreems - Amygdala (John Beltran Summer Drive Remix)
Jon Charnis - Prophecy
Llewellyn - In the Realms of Fancy
Genius of Time - Sunswell
Jon Hopkins - Sit Around The Fire

O to O with Jenifa

imperfect - am006 (free download)

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