It’s safe to say that Steven Legget has been somewhat measured in his approach to releasing music. The Newcastle native was behind the Four Hands moniker, with releases alongside iconic industrial figures Zoviet France on Signals From The North and the classic ‘Hizou’ on Claremont 56 back at the turn of the decade.
 
Now, this Firecracker Recordings release highlights a fully realised body of work, only hinted at by the aforementioned projects. Starting life as a performance in Turkish Baths located in Newcastle upon Tyne’s City Pool, one of the last remaining civil saunas in the country, Legget has created a textured, melodic and immersive eulogy to the woozy, slow motion, drug free endorphin rush of the bath house. Pieces from this performance, alongside field recordings collected on the islands of Paxos and Loutro, South Crete are reimagined as a luscious ambient music. Accompanied by cello and electronics with real attention paid to musicality, vast and gaseous cinematic compositions are submerged beneath waves and drenched in steam and condensation.

All tracks produced by Steven Legget. Field recordings collected on the island of Paxos, and Loutro (Crete).
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 co-written by Laura Reid.
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 cello performed by Laura Reid.
Track 7 co-written/produced and performed with Suade Bergemann (Sine Bass) and Mark Hand (Fender Rhodes Stage 88 Piano and Jen SX1000 synthesiser).

LP Mastered by Suade and Cut by Keith.

For Sacha x

All profits from the sales of this LP will be donated to the charity Waves for Water:
http://www.wavesforwater.org/

• 2x12” vinyl album
• Double gatefold, screen printed, 2 colour sleeve
• Strictly limited press
• Silkscreened artwork by Al White

Worldwide distribution exclusively by Rubadub.

FIREC024LP Steven Legget - Bathhouse

Collaborators since the late 1990’s, Suade Bergemann &amp; Steven Legget are both highly selective in their releases, avoiding the low hanging fruit in the creative process with experimentation and attention to detail at the core of their work.

Their beautifully detailed and delicate compositions combine Legget’s microscopic sample explorations of acoustic instruments and field recordings using complex effects chains and Suade’s extensive knowledge of sound synthesis, music theory and technological production with a structured musicality that shapes their explorative cinematic soundscapes.

Long-term residents of the Freerotation festival the duos live performances involve combining live analogue synthesis and intricate sample manipulation to produce emotive cinematic sonic experiences.

Golden Shields started collaborating during the pandemic lockdown with an audio ‘pass the parcel’ over the ether and are now ingrained physically in the studio together in the completion stages of their next vinyl double LP as well as future releases for Ali Wade’s Frequency Domain label.

Legget’s critically acclaimed LP Bathhouse featured collaborations with Suade, Laura Reid and Mark Hand, Released on the seminal Firecracker imprint in 2017, it received critical acclaim worldwide and was often played by the likes of Andrew Weatherall (RIP).

Suade, in addition to producing collaborative work with Keith Tenniswood and Magda, is a highly respected professional mix and mastering engineer with an extensive formal musical education.

With Golden Shields concentrating on ambient experimental productions, the duo also bring their talents to rhythmic productions and remixes under their alter ego moniker – Solid State Survivor with a recent release on the Freerotation label compilation in aid of the people of Ukraine.

Between them they have released on Firecracker, R&amp;S, Apollo, Claremont 56, Of Paradise, Khoikoi, Adapted Vinyl, Testing Out, Join Our Club, Clear, Universal Vibes, 22- Digital, Bomb-A- Groove, Analogue Dust and Freerotation to name a few.

Been around the Internet before most people knew there was an Internet, which of course means I'm a craggy old fool. Have run "The Edge" from it's birth which in turn gave birth to "Muslimgauze: The Messenger", which I am still responsible for, & "Rapoon Net" that I ran for many years but have since passed the reigns over to Robin (Storey) himself. Now there is "The Muslimgauze Preservation Society", something very special. Met so many amazing people via this electronic medium & can gladly list many of them as great friends today. Lived listening to music my whole life, which has chartered it rather interestingly & lead ultimately to all else. It's strange how "the music" has interfaced so well with my decades of work with computers.

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