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Automatic Music Volume II – now available from Aquarius Records
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html
“Automatic Music Volume II, as the title suggests, is the second in a series of recordings from Australian organist / soundscaper John Chantler, who has played with loads of folks, from Lawrence English to Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and who here presents two extended pieces of electronic music, obviously indebted to early electronic pioneers, but equally obviously quite modern, mixing glitchy fields of bleeping and blooping, with wildly chaotic bursts of noise, all laid atop a bed of super serene wheezing organs, it’s almost like listening to the past and future collide, a man with a primitive pump organ, jamming with some twisted floorcore weirdo, or some brainy scientific soundmaker, surrounded by a mad scientist concoction of synths and electronics, blasting this sci-fi din, while right outside, a huddled figure hunches over a sruti box, the two inadvertently creating some sort of alien sonic ritual, heady and hypnotic, haunting and seriously out there, imagine Zomes remixed by the Radiophonic Workshop! Awesome.”
Southbank Centre, London – 8 February 2014
update:
review on London Jazz
photos by Dawid Laskowski
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I will be performing at the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room on 8th February 2014, opening up for Lucky Dragons.
Automatic Music vII now available from Boomkat.com
” ‘Automatic Music: Volume II’ is the mesmerising follow-up to John Chantler’s self-released first volume, originally released in 2011, the same year as his ‘The Luminous Ground’ LP was charted in The Wire’s annual top 50. Two extended pieces for synthesiser/organ yield contrasting results on each side. First, ‘For Nuno’ is the more melodic of the two, with melting, kinetic modular scree and wheezing organ motifs seemingly attempting to untangle a conundrum which only gets more perplexing across its 20 minute lifespan. Secondly, the lustrous drones of ‘No Poetry’ unfold with the concentrated, hypnotic subtlety of a Phill Niblock or Eleh piece, all glassy, resonant harmonic overtones and warm sweeping bass oscillations that have us hooked for the 20 minute duration.”
Purchase from BoomkatBoomkat Sold Out, but you can order here.
London Concert – 8 November 2013
Sohrab got denied entry to the UK for his concert this Friday at Cafe OTO for ‘Touch presents…’
Myself and Benny Nilsen step into the breach. Tickets are £8 adv or £10 on the door.
Hope you can make it.