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Coming
July
2022
on
Audiobulb
&
LuvSound…
Audiobulb
&
Friends
Play
He
Can
Jog
Featuring
contributions
from
Neuro…
No
Neuro
,
Tomotsugu
Nakamura
,
Autistici
,
Distant
Fires
Burning
,
YoungGettem
,
Flight
Mechanics
,
Seakn
,
Russ
Young
,
Bryan
Teoh
,
Correspondence
,
Nomad
Palace
,
Made
of
Oak
,
Ümlaut
,
and
Anura
.
ack
now
ledge
by
Soft
Generator
[2022]
Second offering with David Newman as Soft Generator.
Available now at
in Minneapolis and other
.
Is a Soft Generator a Soft Machine? Judging by the beautifully
blossoming splatterpulse of the opening “Ack”, with its filters peeking
(and peaking) over a rainbow-hued, synthetic horizon, such a generator
of pillowy delight would no doubt do William Burroughs proud. The sounds
percolating herein do in fact make for machines of loving grace, the
effect startling enough but strangely soothing, circuits doing penance
to both themselves and the worshipping listener. Midway through “Ack”,
you’re taken on a tour of (post)-Namlook-like reverie, where temporal
tides shift and your mind seems to literally bisect outer space;
space-time folds as blips, phizzes, and squirts arc upon a very
Inoue-esque soundstage, augmented by faux-dub echo that shimmers
throughout and descends back to earth like steel rain. “Know” brings
home the beats and sequencer surge with as fine a pedigree as some
newly-minted Tangerine Dream b-side, while “Owl” channels Delia
Derbyshire and the INA-GRM crew thanks to some ingeniously-coined
synthetic flutters and weirdly oxygenated chills and frills. The closing
“Ledge” suggests the listener looks down into the electronic abyss, but
what stares back isn’t simply dark drones and omniscient tones; rather,
there’s a stately classical air that posits Ryuichi Sakamoto and Max
Richter jamming in an elevator with Johann Johannsen. Funky fugue
states, done with considerable aplomb, compositional vigor, and no small
amount of atmospheric delight.
A
Carefully
Controlled
Space
by
Soft
Generator
[2021]
A duo with David Newman featuring artwork by Tom Tebby. Hypnotic rest as
a portal to recovery.
Our first outing as Soft Generator. A chess-by-mail exercise in sound
therapy.
In this new release, we welcome a collaboration between David Newman
(Autistici) and Erik Schoster (He Can Jog). These artists have released
music individually across a range of labels including 12k, KESH,
Hibernate, Home Recordings, Audiobulb Records and Distance Recordings.
This duo have worked together to form Soft Generator, with their
inaugural release featuring artwork by collage artist Tom Tebby.
‘A Carefully Controlled Space’ was crafted with orchestral sounds,
analogue and modular synthesisers, computer generated routines, the
Pippi Computer System pippi.world and field recordings. The work centres
on the idea of hypnotic rest as a portal to recovery. Referencing the
process of Asclepeion ‘sleep temples’, visited by the citizens of
ancient Greece, the album wonders what it would be like to go through
the ritual and process in modern times. A Carefully Controlled Space
imagines a remedy as it reaches out and offers each listener a chance to
reset, heal and escape.
More from Whitelabrecs here:
https://whitelabrecs.com/2021/07/22/coming-soon-soft-generator-a-carefully-controlled-space/
Geodes
by
The
Geodes
[2021]
Between
2014
and
2015
The
Geodes
recorded
12
EPs
culled
from
rehearsals,
improvisations
and
collaborations.
This
limited
LP
was
constructed
from
our
favorite
moments
in
those
releases.
History…