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British musician Jo Johnson’s debut solo album for Further Records, Weaving, betokens an exciting presence in the world of minimalist composition. 

“Ancestral Footsteps” opens the LP with cascades of cyclical harp-like sounds, an homage to one of Johnson’s primary inspirations: Alice Coltrane. Channelling rigorous new age and mesmerizing Riley-esque/Reichian minimalism, the piece accrues heft and intensity, with occasional bursts of synthetic, tribal clapping until it fades out with cinematic flourish. The title track gradually alters simple guitar and keyboard phrases, along with a chiming motif that multiplies in a hall of mirrors. The disorientating arpeggios form moiré patterns against colossal bass notes. The mood lightens considerably with “Words Came After Music,” whose sweeping strings and drones could take you to whatever your idea of heaven is. Interestingly, the title of the piece is inspired by an anthropological theory Johnson stumbled across that musical ability predates language in humans. With its sombre, undulating synths and lustrous highs and lows, “In the Shadow of The Workhouse” plumbs profound emotional depths. Epic closer “Silver Threads” starts as an almost silent retreat in the vein of Laurie Spiegel's Appalachian Grove or Eno and Budd's The Pearl with the faint hum and buzz of telegraph wires, until four minutes in a stoic pulse and suspenseful chiming motif arise, buttressed by glowing synth sighs and the LP's only percussive thumps (think Incunabula era Autechre). 

While inspired by the "serious music" of Arvo Pärt, Wim Mertens and others, Johnson’s mandalas of tone mantras offer a playful, DIY sense of adventure, as you might expect from the former guitarist for incendiary punk group Huggy Bear and a long-term co-organizer of London’s Bleep43 techno club night and label. Weaving condenses Johnson's long love affair with free jazz, minimalism and electronic music and this unique ambient composition is invested with powerful emotional resonance.

Weaving

Improvised music produced entirely on the iOS platform using an iPad Pro.

Escape From A Lost Planet /Take 2

'Schorre', was recorded in 2015 in order of self-meditation. 
Almost every field recording was captured in Schorre National Park (Belgium). 
Revisited in April 2017 (Berlin). 
For a better listening we recommend the use of your headphones. 
Bon voyage. 

Download (name-your-price): https://rohsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/schorre

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Andrea Porcu - Schorre

an excerpt from the second track on Robert Turman's "Flux" 2xLP, a reissue of his debut solo work from 1981. Due at Forced Exposure first week of February

Excerpt from "Flux" by Robert Turman

Listen to the new single 'Skateboarding', taken from the upcoming album, available for pre-order now.

https://smallpond.plctrmm.to/SB

An introspective collection of psychedelic modular synth led experimentations, ‘Bright Serpent’ is the new album by Kristian Shelley aka electronic musician Inwards. Electronic textures and rhythms rub up against manipulated recordings of real instruments, voices and field recordings to fashion transportive snapshots of an inner sound-world.

‘Bright Serpent’ is set for release on 10th April 2020 by Small Pond Recordings on vinyl, CD and digital formats.

Skateboarding

A decade since his first productions as part of Pendle Coven, Miles Whittaker delivers his debut album proper for Modern Love. The intervening time has seen him forge a formidable reputation alongside Sean Canty as Demdike Stare, and with Andy Stott as Millie & Andrea, beside his operations in the hardware field as Suum Cuique, solo excursions as MLZ and shadowy involvement in the HATE project - all the while building upon his in-demand skills as a DJ of twenty odd years experience, accumulating and absorbing far flung knowledge of hardcore UK jungle, Chicago house, Motor City Soul, the obscure UK techno of labels like Radioactive Lamb and Irdial, Italian concrète, Synthwave and contemporary noise. Which brings us to 'Faint Hearted', the Burnley-bred, Berlin-based maestro's debut solo opus; eight entirely analogue constructions riding the wave from wormhole hardcore clatter ('Lebensform') to body-compressing subbass undulations ('Irreligious'), trekking through frayed techno minimalism ('Status Narcissism') to mind-drift ambient ('Sense Data') and what sounds like a Demdike Stare track constructed on a worksite ('Rejoice'). But if you ask us, the best bits occur right at the end, with the ominous bass, funereal strings and obliterated noise of 'Archaic Thought Pattern 1' or the field recording clangour of 'Queuing', and certainly the majestically gratifying yet subtly dystopian 9 minute closer 'Loran Dreams'. As an individual sonic statement, it's an evocative exposition of Miles’ love of electronic music in all its shapes, harnessing his fidgety production style into one expansive, restless set of tracks.

Loran Dreams

This is a small snippet of a larger live piece that was performed at "Refraction" @ Serial Space in Sept. 2010. The full performance, titled "Looking Through New Window" will be available on limited cassette release, as well as digitally in Febuary 2012, through Exotic Pylon Records: http://exoticpylon.com/recordshub.html. 

To purchase Gentleforce's last lp "Sacred Spaces" on Feral Media go here: http://feralmedia.com.au/releases/fm56-gentleforce-powwow-nine-sacred-spaces/

Ascension (live version)

With Adapt collaboration...
You can buy the 12" version on: http://detroitunderground.net/blog/2013/04/rec-overflow-ready-ep-•••-dboy-14/
http://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/label/detail/6352/detroit_underground
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/ready-ep/id637001155


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Gentleforce is the music and sounds of Eli Murray. His debut album "Sacred Spaces"(2010) is out through Feral Media : http://feralmedia.bandcamp.com/album/powwow-nine-sacred-spaces-by-gentleforce. Since his first release he has created several remixes for artists such as Underlapper, Textile Audio and Western Synthetics, created numerous apps and interactive installations with the angrypixel crew (http://gentleforcemedia.tumblr.com/) and had a track selected for The Wire Magazines "Tapper" cd series. Eli is currently filling his time making field recordings, drinking tea and writing new music.


Ascension (live version)

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