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Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Salamander
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 003CD

1999 release. ISAN's equipment must be inhabited by proper salamanders, pattering constantly over circuits,
       stumbling over wires. Robin and Toe, the two mates operating this "Integrated Services Analogue Network"
       (ISAN), appreciate the salamander's help and dedicated this whole album to their little friend. A couple of years ago,
       they both met in Leicester, discovered a common interest in "using dodgy old keyboards to make a dodgy old noise" and
       started recording together. Mixing the simple beauty of melodies generated with analog keyboards and the bumpy, quirky
       rhythms old drum machines create when you switch them on, ISAN produce some of the most irresistible pop anthems the
       whole family can hum along to.

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Salle D'Isan
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MORR 017CD

2001 release. ISAN is Robin Saville and Anthony Ryan, who met in sunny circumstances in Leicester,
       UK. The term ISAN stands for "Integrated Services Analog Network," and beside other reasons it reveals their interest in
       using dodgy old keyboards to make dodgy old noise. But with their new 6-track on Morr music, even the listeners who are
       new to the ISAN network will soon recognize that the definition of dodgy old noise and analog synth-sounds becomes a
       completely new dimension. ISAN's music is a kind of ambivalent thing: simple but pure, noisy but clear, strange but true,
       to mention only a few. Another important merit of ISAN is maybe to completely calm you down because every piece of Robin
       and Anthony's music creates an amazing feeling of being distant to every unnecessary thought, so just sit back, relax and
       let yourself go. The intention of ISAN to ignore common four-to-the-floor dance-patterns doesn't prevent you from finding
       yourself on a ship of its own rhythm; sometimes it steams and rolls and later on it just seems to slide over a sea of
       melodies and all around you things just disappear and fade away.

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Lucky Cat
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 022CD

Released in 2001. ISAN love old analog electronic devices to make music, instruments from a time when synthesizers
       were developed in attics in air-conditioned offices, where hundreds of coding-slaves would program new organ-presets,
       were still an unknown phenomena. Equipment you not only need screwdrivers for, but also furniture polish. Synthesizers
       and drum-boxes, which were affordable even when they were manufactured and which rock bands with mellotrons and modular
       walls laughed at. Robin and Antony prove that these machines are capable of great things, too. With
       numerous releases -- preferably on 7" of course -- they managed to book reservations for front row seats in our record
       racks. Little melodies appear, dragging you along on their journey towards dawn, slowly unveiling their real inner-self,
       and banishing evil ghosts. Everything sounds more self-evident, lighter, more familiar, more personal and especially more
       lovable and adorable. It almost sounds like the happy studio cat.

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Clockwork Menagerie
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 028CD

Repressed. This compilation of early material coming from long-out-of-print singles and compilations was a long time
       coming. Mostly because there should be many more people out there who should be able to listen to these tracks than those
       lucky few who were able to get the original copies in the short while they were available. These tunes seem to come from
       a different era when small labels like Earworm, Liquefaction Empire, Bad Jazz or Wurlitzer Jukebox were continually
       presenting interesting and exciting new bands, mostly on neatly packaged limited edition 7"s. The music ranges, depending
       on from out of whose vintage analog equipment it comes, between simple melodies on swinging, feather-weight beats and
       rhythmically complex and transparent sound installations. May this be the right balance between pop and art. Maybe like
       an unlikely mixture of Plone and Seefeel.

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Meet Next Life
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 042CD

What nobody knows is that Integrated Services Analog Network (ISAN for short) is really a secret garden in
       southern England. In these mild climes, two men (Anthony Ryan and Robin Saville) in their early 30s founded
       Britain's first synthesizer home where neglected and forgotten instruments find a new way in life under love and care of
       their keepers. Everyday, Ryan and Saville visit their beneficiaries and feed them with wonderful melodies and soft
       rhythms that the two bring home from a day's daydreaming of far off, imaginary landscapes. Everyday, Ryan and Saville
       nurtured their growing affinity with their machines. And so the garden grew and flourished. So it is only normal that
       everyone is asking themselves when and what strange fruit ISAN's wonder-garden will bear next.

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Plans Drawn in Pencil
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MORR 068CD

The pencil is the softest of all writing implements, it is always close to vanishing, to being wiped or erased. Maybe
       this album, if it were a painting would not be oil on canvas but rather a pencil drawing. White on grey. Reduced and open
       at first sight. Rich in details and playful on closer examination. A lot happens within seclusion. Antony Ryan and
       Robin Saville layered soundtracks on top of the other, activated filters, went through synthesizers and systems
       (analog and digital ones), looking for sounds. Two artists and their machines.

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