you've been my favorite producer since 2013. 

Such a beautiful song man. A trip hop masterpiece. I love your voice man, the way you sing.. Yeah this track should be popular just like Massive Attack's Tear Drop or Portishead's Glory Box. And not only this song, many tunes of yours should be up there high.. I feel so lucky that i found your Beautiful music almost three years ago. You are a Unique Artist my man. Take care Moth.

Shit Moth....havn't listened to you in a while, comming back to you and still just as impressed. Love your mind!

Though texturally inspired by early new age records like Iasos’ Inter-Dimensional Music, and sample-based collage ventures like Colleen’s Everyone Alive Wants Answers, Lava Diviner (Truestory) is reinforced with a robust percussive backbone.

Botany, otherwise known as Spencer Stephenson, never resorts to shallow MPC trickery or contrived mixtape clumsiness. Instead, his proto-new age textures float elegantly atop a primal boom-bap pulse to paint a detailed, rhythmic mural that has the scope of a ‘70s prog rock epic.

“On Lava Diviner, I wanted to conjure that same headspace that artists like Roger Dean, and even Zdzislaw Beksinski project in their iconic paintings,” says Stephenson. “I tried to evoke those grand, colourful, surreal landscapes that are mind-bending yet oddly comforting - sci-fi and epic and holy, all at the same time.”

Following 2010’s quietly applauded Feeling Today EP, Lava Diviner (Truestory) was created at various Texas locations using a jumble of equipment, from aging desktop computers, samplers, guitars, bells, flutes, tape recorders, turntables, violin playing room-mates and much more besides. Guest vocals from Brainfeeder artist RYAT were added to the mix and the final creation was mastered by Matthewdavid (Leaving Records / Stones Throw).

As the product of a lengthy gestation period, Lava Diviner (Truestory) follows Botany on an intensely personal journey as he makes his way home within himself, returning to his celestial centre.

Loosely a concept album documenting a religious sect that prays for a volcano to erupt, Stephenson set out to make a kind of instrumental storybook of an album, using only the emotional tone that his theme might evoke.

However, by the time the record was finished, it became clear that the emotional tone was really coming from own life, rather than any concept or allegory.

“As work on the record progressed, I began to realize that the musical journey was a direct reflection of my most hard-to-quantify life experiences.” he explains. “Lava Diviner is about very real transformations in my being, so it’s a true story in that sense… I always imagined my first album being like a volcano, with years of pent-up emotion and musical ideas bubbling up to a cathartic release. So, I always knew that symbolism would end up being a part of my first full-length.”

The volcanic sense of release is palpable. Lava Diviner (Truestory) easily moves past stale tropes of beat-based music, and brings to life a fully-realized, album-length outpouring of profound human emotion.

BOTANY "Quatic"

Track 10 from the 2014 album 'Sick Puppy' available to download here: mothequals.bandcamp.com/album/sick-puppy

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Played on BBC Radio: 26/04/2014 & 25/05/2014

Lyrics:
Yeah I said... 
Again... 
Still thinking of a synonym 

Yeah I know 
There's plenty of fish in the sea 
Yeah I know 
In all probability 
You're not the only one 
The only one for me 
Still I can't seem to shake 
This sense of urgency 

This conversation 
Is drying up 
What can I say 
To convince you that 
I'm enough 
To make you stay?

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Taken from Lusine "Arterial" EP out August 5, 2014.

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The Sun Rising

Original :

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New album 'Bolted', released 20 October 2023 on Ninja Tune: forestswords.lnk.to/boltedSo

Taken from 'Compassion' album, out now via Ninja Tune.

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"an exquisite little pop record" - Mary Anne Hobbs

"A euphoric yet deeply textured track that’s easy to get lost in" - The 405

Out on strictly limited cassette and digital formats 17th Nov 
PRE-ORDER: phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/releases

Esoteric electronic duo Hirola announce the release of their fantastic debut mini-album through new music group Phantom Limb, headed by FatCat alumnus James Vella and former Royal Albert Hall exec Mark Pearse.

Hirola comprises Bristol-based producers @lto-oa (formerly of acclaimed electronic outfit @oldapparatus, and a highly respected solo artist in his own right) and @edapollo (who has had releases on Bad Panda Records and Svnset Waves). Their music together is entrancing. More expressive and human than straight computer music, much more obfuscate and abstract than pop music, Hirola’s debut offering has strength enough to scale multiple peaks. From deeply textured electronic production that competes with Kiasmos or Rival Consoles, to lush vocal delivery akin to Rhye, to a dreamy and hazy wooziness roughly orbiting in Boards of Canada’s galaxy. There is enough intricacy and intelligence of sound design and composition here to roughly mimic, say, a Thom Yorke remix of a Tim Hecker track.

Though founded in LTO’s piano playing (he is a piano teacher in his civilian life), edapollo’s vocals and the pair’s shared production alchemy, Hirola is more than just a skill-trade, but a mutual elevation and inspiration, a new concoction very different to its base materials. “It's taken a couple years of trial and error to develop a sound that's equal parts LTO and edapollo,” Hirola write.

The mini-album was created over those couple of years of honing and sharpening, culled from an ongoing body of work, continuously constructed, fluidly and instinctually, as a production collaboration. Eventually sending to Phantom Limb through an existing friendship, the record serves as a bird’s eye view over the span of Hirola’s production and songwriting skills, its abundance of sound design, melody, field recordings and room-shaking bass delivering greatly, and yet promising more.

The record was mastered by Taylor Deupree of 12k Mastering (Loscil, Hauschka, Ryuichi Sakamoto etc.) and features original artwork created by Hirola.

Phantom Limb was launched by Vella and Pearse in June 2017, the former having spent eight years in A&R for FatCat Records, and the latter heading the Royal Albert Hall’s contemporary music programming before moving into music publishing. Hirola is its first original release, offered on strictly limited cassette and digital formats in November 2017

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