Concrete Antenna
By Tommy Perman, Simon Kirby and Rob St. John
FINAL COPIES AVAILABLE MARCH 2022
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"Crystalline piano, clocks, voices, birdsong, water and resonating electronics create a spring warm sense of place and wonder"
MOJO Magazine
“Blending dreamily ambient keyboard melodies with environmental evocations… it offers an attractive distillation of the installation experience. A marker too of rising levels of engagement with auditory histiography in public art”
WIRE Magazine
"Alongside sounds derived from the structure itself the trio seamlessly blend in piano, brass, children at play, birdsong and a bouncing pingpong ball in a quietly affecting sculpture in sound."
THE QUIETUS
"Without a shadow of a doubt, Concrete Antenna is one of our records of the year"
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
Concrete Antenna, our third Random Spectacular project (RS003), is available as a deluxe 12” vinyl album package of new music (including a digital download), a set of art prints, a series of short essays and a specially created tide table created by Tommy Perman, Simon Kirby and Rob St. John inspired by their sound installation in the new landmark tower at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, loosely based on the urban history, architecture and ecology of Newhaven in North Edinburgh.
Using sparse piano, site-specific field recordings and archive sound samples, alongside a number of production techniques derived from the architecture of the tower itself, the trio have produced an album which skirts modern classical composition, warm organic drones and flickering minimal electronica.
The album’s packaging has been crafted from exquisite materials with as much attention to detail as the music. The outer sleeve has a triangular die-cut aperture allowing you to choose your own cover by selecting and rotating the enclosed artworks.
AS HEARD ON: Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service (BBC 6 Music), Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone (BBC 6 Music), Gideon Coe (BBC 6 Music), Late Junction with Max Reinhardt (BBC Radio 3), Steve Barker's On The Wire (BBC Radio Lancashire) and The Janice Forsyth Show (BBC Radio Scotland). Listen to what they had to say
FINAL COPIES AVAILABLE MARCH 2022
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