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FANDF 057CS
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Drawing parallels between present day Britain and that of the turn of the '80s, Ekoplekz looks back to that era's industrial and post-punk soundtrack for inspiration. In a land increasingly brutalized by austerity and divided by nationalism, the tensions that informed some of the post-punk era's most important works -- Red Mecca (1981), Unknown Pleasures (1979), Metal Box (1979) -- haunt this collection of bleak postcards from the present. Recorded quickly on cassette tape recorders, combining live instrumentation (guitar, bass, keyboards) with programmed drum machine and sequencer, the album has a raw, spontaneous edge, drawing on elements of dub, funk, and primitive electronics for musical direction. The album is dedicated to the late Mark Fisher, who's brilliantly insightful writing is sorely missed while trying to make sense of these insane times.
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Cassette version. Influenced by everything from Khan Jamal to Egisto Macchi via Basic House and Konrad Kraft, Why So Mute, Fond Lover? builds new worlds of beats and rhythm, sound collage, ambience, and noise using random borrowed equipment, broken gear, and household appliances. The album was recorded in London and Hamburg (with collaborator Ben Page of Rocketnumbernine and Elite Barbarian), and mastered by fellow Rothko member Mark Beazley. Donnelly has previously released albums on Exotic Pylon, Hideous Replica, and Foredoom Productions, and has been a long-term member of Rothko, performing on a number of their albums, including A Continual Search For Origins (2002), Eleven Stages of Intervention (2007), and most recently, 2018's Blood Demands More Blood. Why So Mute, Fond Lover? comes with a bonus album titled Pardon Error, available as a download with all physical copies, featuring tracks from Michael's previous releases plus new remixes by Pye Corner Audio, Polypores, Kemper Norton, Psychological Strategy Board, Basic House, and Elite Barbarian. This new release is the second volume of a new series on Front & Follow -- Ex Post Facto -- which seeks to celebrate experimental electronic music in all its forms, showcasing new work and old, exploring the relationship between the current and the past, how they influence and shape each other and a listener's experiences of them.
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Influenced by everything from Khan Jamal to Egisto Macchi via Basic House and Konrad Kraft, Why So Mute, Fond Lover? builds new worlds of beats and rhythm, sound collage, ambience, and noise using random borrowed equipment, broken gear, and household appliances. The album was recorded in London and Hamburg (with collaborator Ben Page of Rocketnumbernine and Elite Barbarian), and mastered by fellow Rothko member Mark Beazley. Donnelly has previously released albums on Exotic Pylon, Hideous Replica, and Foredoom Productions, and has been a long-term member of Rothko, performing on a number of their albums, including A Continual Search For Origins (2002), Eleven Stages of Intervention (2007), and most recently, 2018's Blood Demands More Blood. Why So Mute, Fond Lover? comes with a bonus album titled Pardon Error, available as a download with all physical copies, featuring tracks from Michael's previous releases plus new remixes by Pye Corner Audio, Polypores, Kemper Norton, Psychological Strategy Board, Basic House, and Elite Barbarian. This new release is the second volume of a new series on Front & Follow -- Ex Post Facto -- which seeks to celebrate experimental electronic music in all its forms, showcasing new work and old, exploring the relationship between the current and the past, how they influence and shape each other and a listener's experiences of them.
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Polypores is the work of Stephen James Buckley, who has been moving deftly between the sinister and the blissful of haunted space music with synthesizers since 2014. Electronic Sound Magazine wrote "his music seems to seep up from the soil, from in amongst the nooks and crannies, before grasping towards wide and starry skies. From this claustrophobic murk, Buckley is always able to summon sections of soaring cosmic flabbergast." He has had sold-out releases on Polytechnic Youth, KiNETiK Records, Concréte Tapes, and A Year In The Country, as well as under various pseudonyms via Spun Out Of Control and Reverb Worship. Field Lines Cartographer is the ambient and drone project of Lancaster-based electronic musician Mark Burford, aka techno producer Impulse Array. FLC has released two albums for Preston's Concrete Tapes label, as well as being a regular contributor to the A Year In The Country project and has also featured on several electronic and ambient compilations for various independent imprints, such as Modern Aviation and Woodford Halse. Using analog synths and field recordings, the Cartographer creates often dark, occasionally bucolic soundscapes, described in The Wire magazine as "shimmering unsettling noodles" and a "swirling vortex of darkness" by Electronic Sound Magazine.
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Cassette version. Where Moth and Rust Consume takes the multitude of influences always present in Sone Institute's work to create a record he describes as his "pop album". It is, however, very much one which builds on the weird and disorienting approach which set him out from the crowd when Front And Follow first started back in 2007. Where Moth and Rust Consume is at once living and also decaying, uplifting and deeply unsettling. Sone Institute says "I wanted to create electronic pop music, but from the only possible perspective I have." This release also marks the first volume of a new series on Front And Follow, Ex Post Facto, which seeks to celebrate experimental electronic music in all its forms, showcasing new work and old, exploring the relationship between the current and the past, how they influence and shape each other and the label's experiences of them. For each volume in the series Front And Follow ask artists to create a new project of their own choosing and present it alongside a retrospective of their past output. Includes bonus album as a download.
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Where Moth and Rust Consume takes the multitude of influences always present in Sone Institute's work to create a record he describes as his "pop album". It is, however, very much one which builds on the weird and disorienting approach which set him out from the crowd when Front And Follow first started back in 2007. Where Moth and Rust Consume is at once living and also decaying, uplifting and deeply unsettling. Sone Institute says "I wanted to create electronic pop music, but from the only possible perspective I have." This release also marks the first volume of a new series on Front And Follow, Ex Post Facto, which seeks to celebrate experimental electronic music in all its forms, showcasing new work and old, exploring the relationship between the current and the past, how they influence and shape each other and the label's experiences of them. For each volume in the series Front And Follow ask artists to create a new project of their own choosing and present it alongside a retrospective of their past output. Includes bonus album as a download.
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Jodie Lowther is a musician, illustrator, and video artist from the UK who mostly records minimal and ethereal songs. In all of her art, she says she is mostly inspired by dreams, surrealism, psychedelia, and horror. A.R.C. Soundtracks is the audio/visual project of K Craig and David Armes based in the north of England. Marrying bleak drones, echoed-out percussion, and FX-heavy spoken-word to disorientating, ritualistic visuals, they make for an unsettling encounter.
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Debut album by Psychological Strategy Board -- the soundtrack to director Richard Kovitch's 2017 film about the incredible, untold story of the British artist Penny Slinger and the traumatic events that led to the creation of her masterpiece, the 1977 photo-romance, An Exorcism. Paul Snowdon (Time Attendant) and Maybury played, recorded, and manipulated live performances (using synths, electronic boxes, and laptop) to create unique, often unsettling soundscapes inspired by the work of Slinger. Penny Slinger embraced her generation's quest for personal and sexual liberation, and channeled these desires into her ground-breaking collage, films, and sculptures. So powerful was her vision that 45 years later her work is still influencing contemporary artists. Richard Kovitch's film documents Penny Slinger's life during this intense period of creativity and considers the relevance of her work to subsequent generations. From the grey suburbs of Surrey, via the Kings Road art scene of Swinging London, all the way to the galleries of Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo, and detailing her extraordinary collaborations with the cult filmmakers Peter Whitehead, Jack Bond, and Jane Arden, this is a portrait of an artist expressing herself so definitively, fresh insight is gained into the 1960s counter-culture and art's power to liberate is celebrated.
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Lessons marks ten years of the on-going experiment that is the Front & Follow record label, and it also marks their 50th official release, bringing together artists from across the years in old guises and new. From their very first collaborator (Elite Barbarian) to their most recent (The Slowest Lift) -- via the likes of Pye Corner Audio, Leyland Kirby, and Laura Cannell -- Lessons reflects the eclectic nature of the label and their fondness for a special project. Also features: West Norwood Cassette Library, Giant Head, Swine, TVO, Oliver Cherer, Andy Nice, Isnaj Dui, Time Attendant. Farmer Glitch, BLK w/BEAR, Howlround, Hoofus, BLK TAG , Sone Institute, Graham Reznick, Yonokiero, The Doomed Bird of Providence, Ekoplekz, IX Tab, Kemper Norton.
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The Doomed Bird Of Providence's third album Burrowed Into The Soft Sky follows the acclaimed Will Ever Pray (2011) and Blind Mouths Eat (2013). On this occasion, they have discarded Mark Kluzek's vocals in favor of two twenty-minute instrumentals that continue Kluzek's obsessive and singular foray into early colonial history, while also being a significant departure in terms of approach. The underlying themes for each track are contrasting yet tie together via their historical context; a period where indigenous Australian belief systems and day-to-day lives were irrevocably assaulted. The song "Burrowed Into The Soft Sky" is based on a passage from Patrick White's novel Voss (1957). The book is very loosely based on the final journey through the northern regions of Australia by explorer Ludwig Leichardt. Kluzek took a passage from the book where a comet passes over and Voss, his team, and a tribe of Australian Aboriginals engage with and interpret the experience until it is "burrowed into the soft sky". "The Blood Dimmed Tide Is Loosed" takes a significantly darker turn, shining a light on a pattern of atrocity that took place in the north east of Australia at a time where a dynamic of back-and-forth, invariably initiated by colonists, took place, culminating in a "dispersal" of a tribe.
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Front And Follow present the second volume in The Blow project. The Blow project brings two artists together to formulate a collaborative release of their own making. Each artist has a side of audio (approximately 30 to 45 minutes in length) to do whatever they want. The two artists are encouraged to work together on the release, but the length and depth of this collaboration is completely up to them and agreed on a release-by-release basis. Artwork for the series is by letterpress artist David Armes of Red Plate Press. Time Attendant, aka Paul Snowdon, is an experimental musician and artist based in London with releases on Exotik Pylon, More Than Human Records, A Year In The Country and Atrocious Symphonies. His Tournaments EP was described as "medieval acid" and his Bloodhounds album as "folk poetry". In an age where one can create all manner of electronic music with a simple swipe of a mouse, Howlround, the duo of Chris Weaver and Robin The Fog, prove not only how much fun is to be had in making things complicated again, but conversely just how little effort is sometimes needed to create a genuinely uncanny and beguiling sound-world, with four albums to date earning them comparisons to the work of William Basinski, Philip Jeck and even the sculptures of Rachel Whiteread.
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Front and Follow present The Blow Volume 1 featuring IX Tab and Hoofus. This is the first in a new series of split releases. IX Tab is the short-sighted, long-limbed project of failed West Country philosopher-philanthropist Saxon Roach. He has released two acclaimed albums on boutique label Twiggwytch Recordings: Spindle & The Bregnut Tree (2012) and R.O.C. (2015). Hoofus is an electronic musician based in Suffolk. Focused on live performance, emergence and improvisation, Hoofus uses drifting oscillators, overlapping frequency modulation, ragged percussion and a sense of tactile interaction between performer and machines to create music of wayward wonder. The Blow comes on limited edition cassette and comes with a download.
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Front and Follow presents A City Remembrancer, the debut album from Shape Worship aka Ed Gillett. Gillett has been working under the Shape Worship name since 2011. His 2013 debut releases (the Observances EP on Exotic Pylon and the Throughways 7" on Gang of Ducks) weaved dense layers of foggy ambience and rich melodicism around rough-hewn, dancefloor-inspired rhythms. With A City Remembrancer, Gillett pushes his sound into bold new territories. Inspired by the shifting histories of London's physical spaces, the album is both a beautifully detailed piece of sound and a nuanced, politicized eulogy to the city and its inhabitants. Field recordings and vocal samples paint a rich portrait of London as a gigantic palimpsest, constantly being rewritten or renewed; from the postwar utopianism of Brutalist architects, and the plight of residents now being evicted from those same monolithic estates, to ancient burial grounds dislodged by new Crossrail tunnels, or secrets being recovered from the mud of the Thames. Those voices emerge from a rich sonic backdrop: clouds of billowing synths and digital textures wrap around clarinets, pianos, and dulcimers, or are underpinned by fierce drum programming and oppressive bass weight; modular synth experiments blur into minimal composition and pounding techno, the album's dense collage of sounds reflecting the disorientation, beauty, and verticality of the city itself. Includes download code.
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Following her critically-acclaimed 2014 debut album Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth, Laura Cannell presents Beneath Swooping Talons. With deconstructed bow and the extraordinary sound of double recorder, the album grew out of unearthed fragments that became improvised pieces recorded immediately in single takes. Tapping the potent rural landscape and long-dormant musical modes, this album encompasses both wild animal calls and long-forgotten liturgical chords, which, drawn through Cannell's music, seem to originate from the same ahistorical place. With a background in traditional, early, and experimental music, Cannell creates a solitary, minimalist chamber music, with one player making all the harmonies. Based in rural East Anglia, Laura Cannell draws on the emotional influences of the landscape and the sometimes dissonant chords of early and medieval music. Since founding and touring with duo Horses Brawl in 2005, Cannell has established her practice as a solo musician with recorder and fiddle as her primary instruments. Her first album, Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth, found an audience eager for more, and she followed the release with a wide UK touring schedule that included Royal Festival Hall, Supernormal Festival, Tusk Festival, The Cube Bristol, Café Oto, cathedrals, churches, and National Trust castles, as well as interviews and airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music, NTS Radio, and more. Cannell writes, "We build our own traditions, music which feels like a home for our souls. A place we can be entirely ourselves, where we don't have to think, just be and channel pure music without human interception, only in the physical need to express it with the instruments." Her other projects include an experimental fiddle duo with André Bosman (aka electronic musician Hoofus), Oscilanz with Ralph Cumbers (aka electronic artist and trombonist Bass Clef/Some Truths), and work with renowned drummer Charles Hayward (This Heat, About Group).
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Loor (which is Cornish for "moon") represents the next ambitious transmission in the expanding audio landscape that Kemper Norton is creating. The limited first edition of Loor comes with a second disc entitled Salvaged -- a collection of rarities from the Kemper Norton archives, available on CD for the first time. The songs on Loor are a loose trilogy of nocturnal encounters, searches and awakenings, often with Kemper Norton revisiting old foes from previous albums and encouraging new treacherous encounters. "With each release, each live performance, Kemper has demonstrated increased confidence and adventurousness... the fact of the matter is that Kemper's music is utterly unique. If that sounds fanciful in an age when some would have us believe the well has run dry... just listen. And believe." --The Wire
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