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Upcoming concerts & radio

22 August 2012 Quartet Improvisation w/ James Dunn, Daichi Yoshikawa & Roberto Mozzachiodi // Cafe OTO, London – Fukushima Festival Fundraiser! More info.

29 September 2012 Solo Synth // The Railway, Winchester – with Grohs, Isnaj Dui, Joe Evans and Pascal Savy. More info.

There will also be an edit from my live performance at Goldsmiths broadcast on Resonance FM this evening as part of a WIRE special on synth music with John Macedo.

www.resonancefm.com

(h)ear – This Saturday!

I had to cancel a week in the studio at WORM after the Border Agency screwed up returning my passport…  But it arrived this morning so everything is now 100% on track for this concert in Heerlen:
(h)ear #29 – 18/02/12
Aidan Baker + A-Sun Amissa + John Chantler + Wouter Huis video installation
(kuS) Kunstencentrum Signe
willemstraat 91a,
6412 AP Heerlen, Netherlands

New Reviews of ‘The Luminous Ground’

New review of The Luminous Ground appeared on The Silent Ballet:

“Even during the sparser pieces, the music is void of anything concrete, and there’s something quite strange about being hypnotized by an album that distances itself so adamantly from stasis and constancy. Chantler captivates the listener in a limbo of ceaseless movement, leaving them dazed and somewhat disorientated by the eternal state of change.” 7.5/10 Jack Chuter

There is also a review by Rob Young in the latest issue of THE WIRE magazine:

“Hearing this music for the first time has a similar impact to the first exposure to Oval’s Systemisch from 1994, or the early Sähkö recordings like Ø’s Metri, in that it has a beauty partly derived from having travelled beyond the reach of human influence”