![]() Rounding up divine renderings of songs by Aïsha Devi, Penelope Trappes (The Golden Filter), and nick nicely (heralded by luminaries of the US underground Ariel Pink and John Maus), the album culminates with Brian Eno’s collaboration with Irish avant-folk band Fovea Hex. Also included is Abul’s brand new rework of Becoming Animal’s “The Sky Is Ever Falling” starring vocals from Cinder (This Mortal Coil, Cindytalk) and Massimo Pupillo on bass (Zu, Thurston Moore, Stephen O’ Malley). Houndstooth have long been admirers of Abul Mogard’s beautifully stately, romantic melancholia for the best part of this decade. Leading on from Abul Mogard’s Above All Dreams album in 2018 (ELP 037LP), and following veiled live appearances across Europe, And We Are Passing Through Silently offers another tantalizing window onto one of modern synth music’s rarest spirits. A must for fans of Alessandro Cortini, Pye Corner Audio, Fennesz, Gas. Cut and mastered by Matt Colton Manufactured at Optimal Media, Germany. In 2018, John Also Bennett appeared on three collaborative full-length releases - the CV & JAB album Thoughts Of A Dot As It Travels A Surface for Shelter Press (SHELTER 092LP), a fourth Forma album Semblance for Kranky, and Outside The Disc, a new album for his Seabat project with Forest Christenson. ![]() He also appeared on Christina Vantzou’s solo album No. Whilst work continues on these long running collaborations (as well as other projects with artists such as noted minimalist composer/performer Jon Gibson), 2019 will start for John with his first full-length solo release - Erg Herbe. JAB says the record was gestated for nearly a decade while he worked out how to fully express his own sound and ideas. #Twisted insane the insane asylum allmusic how to# Erg Herbe began to emerge during 20, recorded alone during spare moments between collaborative projects. JAB uses a mixture of synthetic and organic instruments throughout the album, including modified Aphex Twin DX7 presets played using a just intonation tuning system, Eurorack oscillators “tuned according to intuitive structures using intervals of 30 hz,” and a number of flutes including a Chinese “dizi” flute borrowed from his father, noted avant-garde poet and mail-artist John M. Bennett (a contemporary of New York underground poets Richard Kostelanetz and Steve Dalachinsky). Erg Herbe taps into the rich history of New York loft music. He also cites Takehisa Kosugi, Dominique Lawalrée, Jon Gibson, and Pauline Anna Strom as important influences. Beyond the cuts recorded in Brooklyn, there’s also “Chanterai Por Mon Coraige” derived from the 13th century French troubadour song by Guiot de Dijon, on which two flute improvisations upon a theme were recorded blind from each other and then combined afterwards. Appropriately “Chanterai Por Mon Coraige” was recorded inside a decrepit mill in the French countryside at night. The title cut “Erg Herbe” features flute recorded inside Tilapia, a reverberant sculpture by Katsuhito Nishikawa at the Museum Insel Hombroich in Germany, which was then processed and overlaid with synthesizer in New York. “Distant Patterns” juxtaposes dry, pulsating oscillators with pillowy, occasionally dissonant pads, while a raga-like alto flute melody glides and dances over top. “Erg Herbe” in an invented turn of phrase - “erg” being the term for a sea of desert sand dunes, and “herbe” being French for grass - summoning the dreamlike image of a green, rolling dunescape. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Jonny Nash: Make A Wilderness (Music from Memory) LP 140 gram vinyl printed inner and outer reverse-board jacket. ![]() Jonny Nash’s Make A Wilderness was created over the course of 2017-2018 and is heavily influenced by descriptions of landscape and environment in the work of authors Shusaku Endo, J.G. ![]() Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano: FRKWYS Vol 15: Serenitatem Fragments from a land that is a largely silent place.
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