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Weaving

by Jo Johnson

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polinos New electronic take on old-school minimalism. Jo Johnson weaves at web of spellbinding colourful pop-minimalist melodies. Excellent stuff!
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Tuonela Amazing work! The title is brilliantly apt. You can concentrate on the detail, the warp and weft of the sound, and be amazed at it's colours and complexity; or you can just zone out, wrap yourself in the woven result and be transported on a carpet of sound. Favorite track: In the Shadow of the Workhouse.
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rpm Delicious audio smoothie recipe: Four parts crystalline arpeggiators, three parts pungent synth sustains; pulse in reverb blender for nine minutes — poured tall. Favorite track: In the Shadow of the Workhouse.
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Dijksterhuis Just blissed out amazingness. Favorite track: Silver Threads.
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Bart Furp Excellent stuff, ambient and kinetic. I am an instant and forever fan.

Reminiscent of Koen Holtkamp? Favorite track: Silver Threads.
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James Morgan Beautifully hypnotic album you can just lose yourself to. Favorite track: Words Came after Music.
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British musician Jo Johnson’s debut solo album for Further Records, Weaving, betokens an exciting presence in the world of minimalist composition.

“Ancestral Footsteps” opens the LP with cascades of cyclical harp-like sounds, an homage to one of Johnson’s primary inspirations: Alice Coltrane. Channelling rigorous new age and mesmerizing Riley-esque/Reichian minimalism, the piece accrues heft and intensity, with occasional bursts of synthetic, tribal clapping until it fades out with cinematic flourish. The title track gradually alters simple guitar and keyboard phrases, along with a chiming motif that multiplies in a hall of mirrors. The disorientating arpeggios form moiré patterns against colossal bass notes. The mood lightens considerably with “Words Came After Music,” whose sweeping strings and drones could take you to whatever your idea of heaven is. Interestingly, the title of the piece is inspired by an anthropological theory Johnson stumbled across that musical ability predates language in humans. With its sombre, undulating synths and lustrous highs and lows, “In the Shadow of The Workhouse” plumbs profound emotional depths. Epic closer “Silver Threads” starts as an almost silent retreat in the vein of Laurie Spiegel's Appalachian Grove or Eno and Budd's The Pearl with the faint hum and buzz of telegraph wires, until four minutes in a stoic pulse and suspenseful chiming motif arise, buttressed by glowing synth sighs and the LP's only percussive thumps (think Incunabula era Autechre).

While inspired by the "serious music" of Arvo Pärt, Wim Mertens and others, Johnson’s mandalas of tone mantras offer a playful, DIY sense of adventure, as you might expect from the former guitarist for incendiary punk group Huggy Bear and a long-term co-organizer of London’s Bleep43 techno club night and label. Weaving condenses Johnson's long love affair with free jazz, minimalism and electronic music and this unique ambient composition is invested with powerful emotional resonance.

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released September 1, 2014

Written & produced by Jo Johnson
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Chloe Harris

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Jo Johnson London, UK

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Solo + w/ Hilary Robinson. Releases on 9128.live, Apartment, Bleep43, Further, Going In, Mysteries of the Deep, Verdant.

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