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@ahemahemahem

Fabled ambient label Housecraft Recordings has resurfaced with a new 2xLP from Jeffry Astin, J.P. Wright, and Brian Kinkade aka Ahem.

It's chock-full of smoked out dub-bient chuggers, deep-Appalachian drones, and acid-soaked psy-op jams guaranteed to wash your brain.

Vinyl / digital preorder over at https://housecraftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ahem

Cover art by Joe Roberts (LSD World Peace)

releases August 5th 2022

pi pi pi premiere: Ahem - Project Bluebird

Meeting as solo artists billed for the same show (Brookyn 2021), Will August Park and J were compelled to get in the studio together. The unification of Will’s impressionistic solo piano compositions and J. Alberts blunted electronic music style lent itself to a holistic workflow, and in this flow they discovered their commonality in taste and musical expression. The two musicians, versatile in both acoustic instruments and electronics, bring together their distinct styles on "Flat Earth". The composition process involved free improvisation, crafting layers of lush resonance and paired back beats. The 5 track EP sometimes dances across the mind with ease of groove, while also hyper-focussing on the bold personality of instruments to create textural symphonies.

Cassette & Digital

J. Albert Meets Will August Park - Motion Picture

Starfrog Slipmoded

Starfrog (JP's Little Shinety Clouds remix) [feat. Ben Bondy]

The first single from jp's forthcoming album, 'we're here all the time', out October 24th on Theory Therapy. 

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

The vinyl is also available on One Eye Witness: 

https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1757422963/jp-we're-here-all-the-time


@whatdotjp
@oneyewitness

jp - lite blue light (feat neal m)

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

@whatdotjp
@theory-therapy

Theory Therapy is pleased to present ‘we’re here all the time’ by jp (aka J.P Wright) – the New York producer behind one of last year’s shinetiac remixes on the OST label, and a member of Housecraft Recordings’ trip-bient group Ahem.

Compiling several years of well-worn material, the Brooklyn artist’s debut solo LP was the result of many hours of hardware jams and happy accidents, later meticulously edited down into these seven arrangements. Blending first-thought-best-thought spontaneity with extended DAW labouring, Wright delivers some of the most immediate music yet on Theory Therapy.

The album is reminiscent of ’90s and early-’00s IDM. Syncopated rhythms and atmosphere swirl into a mutable whole, as hardcore breakbeat, ambient trance and acidic electro bleed together into a liquid mélange. The sequencing drifts from gauzy, ethereal openings into tensile, club-ready pressure before swerving toward moments of stillness – like lingering in an emptied club hours after the crowd has gone.

There’s a distinct physicality to the music too. Kick patterns jitter like loose live wires, delays ripple through the fog-soaked air, yet the album’s finest moments lie in its more subtle textures and tonal shifts. This is proper braindance that keeps you suspended in its pulse, caught in non-linear time. Wright lets the music wander in unpredictable arcs, moments folding back on themselves, stretching in multiple directions at once – tracing and retracing a memory that refuses to settle. 

pi premiere: jp - perf (Theory Therapy)

Taken from The Caretaker album 'Persistent repetition of phrases'

THE CARETAKER - false memory syndrome

recorded in Gainesville, FL 2015

https://jeffryastin.bandcamp.com/album/fragrant-bush

Jeffry Astin & J.P. Wright - Fragrant Bush - A4

The Caretaker conjures a quieter, more introspective spirit, lost in his own mind amidst a low-lit labyrinth of ever-decaying and antediluvian shellac phrases. Sourced from a mysterious collection of 78s, these vague snippets of archaic sonics reflect the ability of Alzheimers patients to recall the songs of their past, and with them recollections of places, people, moods and sensations.

01 - All you are going to want to do is get back there

02 - Moments of sufficient lucidity

03 - The great hidden sea of the unconscious

jp - we're here all the time (TT011)
https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

Starfrog Slipmoded
https://o-s-t.bandcamp.com/album/starfrog-slipmoded

Ahem: 
https://housecraftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ahem
https://housecraftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-nyc

Libra Mix 113: https://libramix.org/

misc:
https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/new-york-dance-music-iii
https://jeffryastin.bandcamp.com/album/fragrant-bush