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Jon Collin, Demdike Stare – Sketches Of Everything (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:16 minutes | 460 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DDS
Ostensibly Demdike Stare’s first proper full-length collaboration, ‘Sketches Of Everything’ weaves dark moorland ambient blues into guitarist Jon Collin’s windswept Americana. It’s a highly evocative swing between porchside strums, sludge doom and weathered dub noise somewhere between Bruce Langhorne’s soundtrack for ‘The Hired Hand’, Neil Young’s ‘Dead Man’, Loren Mazzacane Connors at his most swoonsome and a screwed Prince Jazzbo – proper stoner vistas.
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Jordan Perry, Jon Collin – Charlottesville, 10 April 2019 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 28:40 minutes | 228 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Early Music Records
Cold, refined but utterly transcendental blues minimalism, documenting a duo performance by Jon Collin and Sarah Hughes that took place barely two months ago at Rhizome in Washington, DC. With its small-hours echoes of John Surman’s classic ECM outings and the mighty Vor Der Flut compilation, this disc has knocked us for six – Collin using his treated, tremulous guitar sorcery to create sparse, impressionistic but utterly absorbing environments for his collaborator’s woodwind and reeds to roam in and grapple with. Hughes’ interventions begin as ghostly residue, a droning spirit-world rebuke to the alive and unseeing and ungrateful, but then swell unexpectedly, and ecstatically, to climaxes of weeping, plangent, unaffected jazz lyricism. And back again. If this one does anything for you, make sure you check Collin and Jordan Perry’s Charlottesville, 10 April 2019, which is also newly available courtesy of Early Music. You need both sets, to be honest, but the Hughes/Collin disc is just extraordinary… one of the year’s finest, no doubt.
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Jon Collin – The Fiddler Now Steps To The Road (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 29:44 minutes | 260 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © unifactor
Prolific and ever-developing, Jon Collin’s pieces often begin with guitar but incorporate unconventional production, abstract recording means, or the blending of unlikely sounds for unearthly atmospheres. The two extended halves that make up The Fiddler Now Steps to the Road are similar, with a minimal skeleton that grows almost imperceptibly from scrapes that sound like a creaky gate swaying in the wind to a lush and enveloping quilt of tones. The compositions hover precariously, observing the passing storms without seeking answers or balance.
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