Moon Zero
Moon Zero
The music spools out of Garratts mind in the form of extensively screwed up synthesizers, bowed cymbals, liquidated
instruments and detuned tape loops. Bounced between effects chains, music software, mixing desks and tape, his materials
are then inflated and tampered with, in different venues of a particular significance or suggestive atmosphere. The
results are enigmatic, hypnotic and register a note of mourning. They are mercifully free of the obligatory club
references of electronic music thats destined for a different mood but nonetheless confines itself to bygone post-club
tropes. "I was listening to a lot of William Basinski, Bowie's 'Low', Swans, Messiaen, Stars of the Lid, Cluster, Eno.
Carl Sagan," remembers Garratt.
Garratt seeks out spaces in the city which can be turned into echo chambers for his ambient, avant-gardist material.
Yearning to derive some meaning from a point in space-time, these resonances turn back and pacify some of the frenzied
and alienating forces in both the human and the place. Like the preceding EPs, Moon Zero was recorded at St George in
the East in Shadwell, London. Having written the preliminary tape loops (this time secluded and out-of-signal in rural
Wales) at the end of 2014, he returned to St George in June 2015. "I only had a five hour window to record everything,
which I hope gives the record a sense of spontaneity and life". Religious themes pervade the album, drones imported from
ancient sects and the never-silent industrial era - a convergence that is mirrored by the dead history of the Thames and
present-day flows of money and data outside his Limehouse studio.
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Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
25-09-2015
Label
Item-nr
479651
EAN
4024572859503
Availability
In stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
LAIKA 1:48
2
EXPANDING INTO THE TIME WE HAVE 5:38
3
THE SOLIPSIST 11:08
4
HERITAGE GUILT 4:48
5
A BEVAN ROTATION 5:09
6
NAURU 10:31