Catalog Number: SJRLP554
Format: LP
UPC: 5026328005546
Hawksmoor's
new album Oneironautic on Soul Jazz Records follows on from last
year's critically acclaimed Telepathic Heights, as well as a
re-release of his album Saturnalia on the Library of the Occult label
earlier this year.
James
McKeown, AKA Hawksmoor, continues his fascination with the sounds and
sensibilities of 70s/80s German electronic groups - think early Cluster, Harmonia, Can, Neu!, Hans-joachim Roedelius and Michael Rother.
On
this new album Oneironautic, he successfully combines these pulsating
ripples of Germanic electronica with a number of decidedly English
references: the soaring, hypnotic and pastoral qualities of Brian Eno,
circa Another Green World; the long, sustained lines of Robert Fripp's Frippertonics; and the poetic feel of early Durutti Column.
McKeown
combines all of these elements while also remaining with one foot
firmly in the British melodic hauntological modular synth aesthetic of
hauntology - Ghost Box, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Focus Group et al.
Once
again using strictly modular synths, electronic drum rhythms, and
guitars, Hawksmoor has created an electronic landscaped music world that
is both new and old, immediately identifiable and yet utterly unique.