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| Cheju – Waiting For Tomorrow (Distant Noise) Posted: 17 Nov 2009 01:34 PM PST
Over the last five years, Wil Bolton (aka Cheju) has easily emerged as one of the UK post-IDM / leftfield electronic scene’s most prolific operators, with an intimidating backcatalogue of physical and web releases that would put to shame many other artists who’ve been putting out tracks for twice as long. This latest album for Distant Noise ‘Waiting For Tomorrow’ certainly sees this prolific workrate continuing, emerging just a few months after his preceding Broken Waves collection on Bolton’s own Boltfish Recordings label. In comparison to earlier Cheju releases such as his Bubble Wrap EP, which was a purely synthetic affair, the eleven tracks gathered here see Bolton instead centering around the use of treated guitars and piano as source material, a shift that sees his meticulous digital productions taking on a distinctly more warm and human-sounding feel. Whereas on previous Cheju albums the harsh, buzzing synthetic rhythms that stutter beneath ‘Grid Reference’ might have emphasised the cold digital pristine-ness surrounding them, here they’re beautifully counterbalanced by the delicate, almost wide-eyed guitar strokes that flicker gently around them. It’s a metaphor that applies to much of this album – while ‘Sitka’ builds a relentlessly slow emotional undertow by fusing twinkling bells and bluesy guitar bends with fluttering IDM rhythms and what sounds like a Fender Rhodes, before ‘Rose Window’ places complex, flexing snare patterns stuttering beneath a wash of chiming treated guitar plucks and blurred-out bass synths that’s part neo-folk, part prog-rock wander. In this case, it’s precisely this warm, human-sounding edge that results in Waiting For Tomorrow being one of Bolton’s most immediately accessible and satisfying Cheju albums to date. Chris Downton Cheju – Waiting For Tomorrow (Distant Noise) is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine. |
| “Back to the Future” – Extended Playlist 161109 – www.2ser.com 107.3FM Posted: 17 Nov 2009 05:42 AM PST The future never sounded as good as it did in the past…and an especially big thanks to Matt Vaughan from Sydney Sunday night legend Loose Ends for reminding us of the splendour that is Tones on Tail! Yours truly, Captain Stuck in the Future… ————————— Monday 23 November 09 More themes at your leisure, please, to extendedplay@2ser.com . ————————— Filewile – One Space Town John Foxx – He’s A Liquid Eurythmics – You Take Some Lentils And You Take Some Rice Chris & Cosey – Impulse Hard Corps – Des hommes Anne Clark – Lovers Audition Cabaret Voltaire – Over And Over Fad Gadget – The Box Brian Eno & David Byrne – Two Against Three Cupol – Like This For Ages XTC – The Somnambulist He Said – Do You Mean That? Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser – Bloody And Blunt Harmonia & Eno – When Shade Was Born Virgin Prunes – Theme For Thought Broadcast and The Focus Group – A Quiet Moment Tones on Tail – Twist Qua – Good Morning Sun (Wagons Retelling) Curse ov Dialect – Runaway Tears The Wolfgang Press – Slow As A Child ————————— Do you like our playlists? “Back to the Future” – Extended Playlist 161109 – www.2ser.com 107.3FM is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine. |
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