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The Heartwood Institute, Hawksmoor

Concrete Island (LP, Orange)

Label: Spun Out Of Control

Format: LP, coloured

Genre: Library/Soundtracks

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€26.90
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Concrete Island, music by The Heartwood Institute & Hawksmoor. 'Our collaboration was initiated in February 2020, on the cusp of what would become a historically fateful year. We began with no rules and by sharing files, which could range from a modular loop to a bass line, melody or rhythm track, or something more realised that needed a fresh pair of ears to deconstruct and re-work it. Eventually something cohesive began to take shape. It wasn’t always an easy listen and frequently the results thrown up by our musical game of Exquisite Corpse took the initial ideas on unexpected tangents. Over the course of a year, however, we consolidated and trimmed down a decent collection of material to an album length.

Possibly in reaction to our own personal circumstances and living through 2020, thematically the music sounded brutalist, even harsh in parts. But there were still places in which the verdant shoots of melody could break through, like the central reservation of a motorway reclaimed by nature. Given this, J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island provided a natural thematic choice and narrative arc on which to hang such music. Our compositions began arriving, or maybe crashing, at a junction where motorik electronica blended with the post-punk aesthetic of dub bass lines and fractured synths.

The tracks on the album now play like filmic snapshots of scenes, capturing our ‘arrogant protagonist’ escaping the city, crashing and burning – and then attempting to negotiate and escape from the concrete landscape.'

Details
Cat. number: SOOCLP10
Year: 2022
Notes:
First ever vinyl LP release of the album Concrete Island by The Heartwood Institute and Hawksmoor, remastered by Antony Ryan and with artwork by Eric Adrian Lee. Features brand new track 'Maitland' not on the 2020 cassette release. Limited edition of 350 copies worldwide on 'Traffic Cone' orange coloured vinyl. For fans of early Mute Records, Krautrock, motorik music and more! Electronic Sound magazine's Bob Fischer says of the album: 'A bleakly beautiful collection of rush hour synths, PiL bass lines and pattering motorik rhythms.' credits releases June 24, 2022 Performed & produced by Jonathan Sharpe (The Heartwood Institute) and James McKeown (Hawksmoor). Released on Spun Out Of Control.

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