psychogeographic

Autumn Done Come: Part One

A seasonally-affected round-up of releases that might not otherwise have secured some Concrete Islands investigation time separately

A Moment of Tranquility in Miniature: Claire Scully’s Desolation Wilderness

Simon Shiel finds that every image in Claire Scully’s carefully illustrated psychogeographic sequence allows the reader a place to pause and reflect

Richard Skelton – Border Ballads (Corbel Stone Press)

Richard Skelton has unearthed ambient transmissions from deep time and pressed them into the present with this album of hinterland inspired compositions

Leafcutter John – Yes! Come Parade With Us (Border Community)

Leafcutter John’s latest LP is a walking tour of the Norfolk coast rendered as mossy electronica seasoned with field recordings in a kosmische stew

Andrew Wasylyk – The Paralian (Athens of the North)

The Paralian is the first great album of 2019, a beautifully instinctive, naturally textured work of analogue ambient haunted by the North Sea

Progressive Immersion: Interview with Beautify Junkyards

João Branco Kyron of Beautify Junkyards tells Stewart Gardiner about oneiric domains, unrestricted time and space, and being part of the Ghost Box family