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James Holden is back with a new artist album, on one of my favourite labels (his own Border Community).

 

https://bleep.com/release/43962-holden-the-inheritors

 

Sounds like its pretty crazy, recent single "Gone Feral" was fairly nuts so I'm looking forward to hearing more samples of this stuff....

 

From RA:

 

 

Named after a William Golding book, the album was crafted using Holden's analogue modular system and hand-coded computer programs, which he used to build a series of unique analogue-digital machines. The producer describes these machines as "complex, unpredictable beasts whose sole purpose was to be an expressive instrument for me to play a single song." He added: "There is something very Heath Robinson about the machines I build. Chaos systems with stable states and unstable states, modulating themselves as I fight to steer them. Everything is first takes. It was all a moment. It's recorded like folk music—no overdubs, no virtuosity. A man learnt some instruments to a basic standard and played them. Where needed, he sang."

In a press release, Holden cites the music of Elgar and the KLF's Chill Out as reference points for the LP, as well as "ceilidh music, pentatonic folk scales, and ancient pagan rituals." The Border Community boss also said: "In dance music you're face to face with redundant, pointless music the whole time—records that don't need to exist because every part of them already exists elsewhere. Maybe the same everywhere. I wanted to make the opposite and try to find my own successful combinations and strategies. That part-explains the long gestation I guess. But what would be the point of doing anything else? The album is not meant to sound like now, but it's not meant to sound like the past either."

Holden plays all instruments and provides the vocals on The Inheritors, with two exceptions: a saxophone cameo from Zombie Zombie's Etienne Jaumet on "The Caterpillar’s Intervention" and a vocal turn by Shimble on "Circle of Fifths." The album will be preceded by a 12-inch single version of "Gone Feral" on April 8th. You can download the track for free over on the Border Community SoundCloud page.

 

Sounds pretty good to me

 

[sc5]https://soundcloud.com/border-community/holden-gone-feral-41bc[/sc5]

 

*edit*

LOL Ceephax has the first comment on soundcloud

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It's always interesting to check Holden stuff. Don't like that 'modulars and hand-coded stuff for one take' ideology. He praises his method too much for it to be composed like folk music.

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Enjoyign this mix he did for resident advisor

 

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=367

 

Can anyone Id the track at 20mins? I can't figure it out from the tracklisting.

 

edit: i think it must be craig leon as it appears to be followed by the ame track

 

Craig Leon's piece must be some kind of layer there. I think previous Holden track plays all the way to Ame, it just mutates.

 

Here is another mixtape that may be interesting to listen in the context of new album, in this show guests are doing their formative selections with commentary.

 

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/james-holden-headphone-highlights

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Enjoyign this mix he did for resident advisor

 

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=367

 

Can anyone Id the track at 20mins? I can't figure it out from the tracklisting.

 

edit: i think it must be craig leon as it appears to be followed by the ame track

 

Craig Leon's piece must be some kind of layer there. I think previous Holden track plays all the way to Ame, it just mutates.

 

Here is another mixtape that may be interesting to listen in the context of new album, in this show guests are doing their formative selections with commentary.

 

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/james-holden-headphone-highlights

 

 

holy shit you are right (maybe). this is cut from the ra mix. love this!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyqQmlS_bfE

 

 

 

and thanks for the link i'll give it a listen

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Here is another mixtape that may be interesting to listen in the context of new album, in this show guests are doing their formative selections with commentary.

 

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/james-holden-headphone-highlights

 

 

The choices were pretty good. But the highlight was the tony conrad + faust track. I'm a faust fan but had't come across this collab before. it's a droney belter. thanks amen lare and james holden

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this is a pretty great album, one of my favourites this year, so far.

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