Pre-sale is on NOW @ https://riotradiorecords.bandcamp.com/album/muutto
Here's a sneak peak at the very first vinyl release on our sub-label 'a quiet RIOT' which lands April 2019. This mini-album release will feature as a clear and black marbled vinyl 12" with full cover artwork sleeve and a textured coloured printed insert. A truly stunning production of sound and art. Also available as digital download.
Until now aqR has been a digital only label .................. but no more.
Artist: Adam Winchester
Title: Muutto
Following his Interferenza cassette for Osiris Music, Berlin-based sound artist Adam Winchester returns with a new body of work that sees him embracing ever more forthright rhythms while adhering to his established lines of sonic enquiry.
With roots in the Bristol dubstep scene and a long-standing partnership with Christopher Jarman in Dot Product, Winchester has spent the past few years investigating alternative methods of sound generation that deal in hidden electromagnetic frequencies and spectral tones found lurking in circuitry. Bringing these extremities back to a more structured focus, Muutto is a highly personal work that captures the period of transition as he moved from Bristol to Berlin.
While the finely sculpted tonality and artful distortion of his recent work is plain to hear throughout, Muutto is also grounded in arrangement and melody, weaving a tangible narrative that pivots around steely rhythmic architecture, nodding to his roots in club music without expressing anything explicitly ‘dancefloor.’ Even at its most physical, as on the weighted march of “Hold,” the emphasis is on atmosphere and mood, no matter how heavy the drums fall. In the distant murmurs of pads and poignant vocal threads, the bittersweet emotional backdrop to the record comes through in abundance.
There’s space afforded for the more avant-garde tendencies in Winchester’s music too. “Metaphors” is caked in guttural feedback that comes on like a particularly noisy Albini studio session strapped to a chassis of the swampiest blues rock lurch you’re likely to hear all year.
In its needlepoint detail, broad scope of sound palettes and potent expression, Muutto is an accomplished offering, but more significant is the way these facets are bound together by immediacy and form that transcend the freeform experimentation many of Winchester’s traits are drawn from.
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Track List:
A1. Crane
A2. The Light
A3. Primate Methods Of Purification
B1. Hold
B2. Metaphors
B3. Swan Song
Credits:
Written by Adam Winchester
Mastered by Fuek
Artwork by Adam Winchester & Nomad
