- monome, isms, grid, arc

This is my new #monome #isms album - Kubota. Preorder's open now. Full digital release on March 30th and limited edition chrome cassette (ships April 23rd), as well as on all major streaming services. Preorder from my bandcamp, 

http://mudlogger.bandcamp.com/album/kubota 

"Kubota" refers to Kubota Corporation and is a tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer based in Osaka, Japan. I live in the rural countryside in North East Thailand and they are sometimes referred to as Iron Buffalo. Rich farmers buy them. Less rich farmers rent them. Poor farmers use the real thing. I see them everywhere, the machines and the animal. 

During 2018 I played gigs in Bangkok primarily as preparation for a final gig at the end of the year, at the Tokyo Festival of Modular. It was my ambition to visit Japan and play Tokyo. Throughout that year, I composed tracks on a monome isms, hybrid analog / digital eurorack modular system, primarily so they could be translated and played live. I tested them out live, before formally recording them. 

This isn't a live album, it's an album of well rehearsed instrumental, electronic compositions which I recorded in a series of live, one take, performances. Errors and mistakes are deliberately left in the mix. No post edits are made. There is no multi-tracking. Everything was recorded to 1 stereo track and then professionally mastered. 

This is Kubota, enjoy :)

The album will also be available on all streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, Napster, iHeartRadio, ClaroMusica, Saavn, Anghami, KKBox, MediaNet, and Instagram/Facebook.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kubota/1457562320?uo=4&app=itunes

Composed and Performed by Jason Taylor
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering 
Artwork by Joe White - www.joewhitedesign.com 

Thankyou to the Teletype coders : Scanner Darkly, Ghost, Johnathan F Lee, Dan Derks and Brian Crabtree at monome.org Also thanks to Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound and John Melcher.

Kubota

30th March 2019

Continental Shift by mudlogger (from the new album Kubota)

mudlogger is Jason Taylor, an artist and sound designer working with DIY electronic devices and modular synths living in rural Thailand.
He also releases work under the name "Hoan Kiem Chess Team"