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01. Jab - Planner's Beauty
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02. Jab - A Little Breeze
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03. Jab - Jacob's House
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04. Jab - Menu Music For Video Game
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05. Jab - Distant Patterns
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06. Jab - Chanterai Por Mon Coraige
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07. Jab - Erg Herbe
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ARTIST
JAB
TITLE
Erg Herbe
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
SHELTER PRESS
CATALOG #
SHELTER 105LP
SHELTER 105LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
3/15/2019
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. 4
. 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.
Erg Herbe
began to emerge during 2017 and 2018, 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. Artwork by
Zin Taylor
. Mastered by
Rashad Becker
at Dubplates & Mastering. 140 gram vinyl; printed inner and outer reverse-board jacket.
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