Kangding Ray . Pruitt Igoe
12’’ E.P.

Pruitt Igoe is a 4 track E.P on which both Alva Noto and Ben Frost have been invited by Kangding Ray to produce sonic variations on a contemporary architectural myth.

The EP’s title Pruitt Igoe is taken from a gigantic social housing project, completed in 1955 in the U.S. City of St Louis, Missouri, and often regarded as a symbol of the modernist architecture failure. Designed according to the principles of modernism, and by the same architect who would later build the World Trade Center, the project saw a disastrous and violent decline after only a few years, plagued with vandalism and massive criminality, leading to its complete destruction from 1972 onwards. Footage of its demolition are visibly featured in the 1983 movie “Koyaanisqatsi”, scored by Phillip Glass.

Pruitt Igoe is more than a post-modern icon, it represents an ancestral movement of hope and disillusion, of perfectly planned models and evaporated dreams. It serves as a judicious metaphor for our era, where the feeling of imbalance and doubt has replaced the certainity of eternal progress and endless economical growth. 

This movement is reflected by the two sides of the record: on the A side, the original track and its remodel by Alva Noto, both represent the planning and construction phase, based on a clear structure and a hypnotic loop of women chanting in the streets of a small town in North India. On the B-side, Ben Frost and Kangding Ray undertake the demolition process - slicing beats, destroying structures and emphasising the beauty of collapse.


A1 Pruitt Igoe - part 1 (rise)

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From his early releases on the legendary german imprint raster-noton, to his more recent output aimed at the club, Kangding Ray managed to trace a singular trajectory, navigating the unexplored territories between experimental music and dance music.

Through his consistency as both Live performer and DJ, and a number of critically acclaimed releases, Kangding Ray showed his ability to keep a genuine artistic approach, while slowly crafting a unique universe, equally focused on emotional response and visceral impact.

Kangding Ray’s music tests boundaries, evolving constantly in its exploration of texture and rhythms, while talking equally to the body and the mind.
From his past as architect, Kangding Ray kept a multidisciplinary approach to art, applying his craft in diverse artistic fields such as visual arts, film scores, audiovisual installations and dance performances.

Nachdenken. Solo act by Jörgen Andersson. The music that I made are occasionally created out of experimentation and d.i.y-solutions where modular systems like eurorack comes in mind. 
My first attempt was experiments in the mid-80’s where made with a Korg MS-20, SH-202 , Drummatix/TR-606 thru a boss delay and a DIY spring reverb and onto a tape deck (later porta studio). 

The music making took off from listening lot to bands in the post-punk and the so called krautrock era. That was inspiration mainly from British synth oriented bands like Cabaret Voltaire, (early) Human League and the German Kraftwerk of course. 

Later on I met Peter Fransson aka Retep Folo in the early 90’s and we started experimenting cassette tape looping and recorded under the name INTONARUMORI. Later on we started Hadley with Svante Sjöstedt on guitar. We made a CDr that got some attention. An journalist at Göteborgs Posten compared us to Roxy Music and Gary Numan. Me and Peter did some gigs as duo Further on It developed to Exhadley with Peter Fransson on bass and Rickard Olsson on Drums. We were starting to play live

There is some later collaborations like:
tNt - Estrella: flute, spoken word, performance art.
Other colaborations: Jonas Olsen (Bohemian Groove), Pontus Torstensson (Tentakel...) Mag Ågren (Sork., Trapped in a loop), Rickard Widerberg (Trapped in a loop).

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