Lawrence English

Lawrence English – Chthonic (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:12 minutes | 398 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Drone
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © American Dreams Records

Acclaimed experimentalists Lawrence English (AUS) and Lea Bertucci (NYC) travel the world on Chthonic, a shape-shifting ambient collaboration. The pair have impressive resumes. In the last five years alone, English has collaborated with William Basinski, Loscii and Merzbow, and Bertucci has, over a decade-plus, released numerous wide-ranging, innovative releases and presented her music at prestigious museums around the world (MOMA, Walker Museum, ReWire, Unsound). Here they branch out into new approaches (trans-hemispheric collaboration) and instruments (Bertucci plays cello, flute, violin and lap steel). The results are deeply compelling and rooted in vastness of geological scale and time. It’s all here – the emotion, the scale, the density, the fear, the wonder, the dirt. Chthonic is for everyone, but if you’re a head, you already know this is a special release. Get in quick while there’s enough wax to go around.

(more…)

Lawrence English – Observation of Breath (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:33 minutes | 347 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Drone
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hallow Ground

Lawrence English follows the excellent pipe organ-focused ‘Lassitude’ with another elevated set of syrupy drone poems built around Charlemagne Palestine’s concept of “maximal minimalism”. Glacial stuff, in the best possible way >> think Kali Malone, Ellen Arkbro, Phill Niblock or ‘Eliane Radigue.

(more…)

Lawrence English – Lassitude (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:45 minutes | 323 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Room 40

It may not be apparent on first examination, but the pipe organ has played a significant role in most of the work I have produced over the past decade. On Wilderness Of Mirrors and Cruel Optimism, the organ was central in helping shape many of the pieces. The clearest and most audible example is in Negative Drone (from Cruel Optimism), but there are many other moments when the Pipe Organ has been fundamental in affecting my work. I feel then, it’s about time I give this miraculous instrument some overdue focus.

(more…)

Lawrence English – Field Recordings From The Zone (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:54 minutes | 352 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Room 40

Almost an hour of heart-stopping location recordings made by Lawrence English in Queensland, Australia in the aftermath of a summer of intense bushfires and just as the lockdown started to re-shape lives globally earlier this year. These are technically brilliant and emotionally pregnant recordings from “The Zone”, a place we find ourselves in right now, where we just might still have time to reshape the world around us if we pause to acknowledge and address our own actions.

(more…)

Lawrence English – A Mirror Holds the Sky (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:46 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Room 40

Vital narrative-led field recording work captured in the Amazon rainforest by Aussie recordist and Room40 boss Lawrence English. Utterly captivating stuff that places us in the center of a misunderstood part of the world and allows us to appreciate its rare, complex beauty.

(more…)

Lawrence English – Evocation At Peron (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 19:26 minutes | 208 MB | Genre: Ambient, Drone, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Superpang

Lawrence English yields a 20’ field recording for the ace Superpang series, capturing the ambiance of Shark Bay, Western Australia circa his modern classic ‘The Wilderness of Mirrors’.
(more…)

Lawrence English – Approach (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:30 minutes | 327 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Room 40

Lawrence English’s latest solo album is his deepest and most rewarding yet, drowning eerie anime-inspired pads in cyberpunqued TV static and fogged grey noise. Patient, personal and incredibly moving >> RIYL Akira Yamaoka’s “Silent Hill” OST, Thomas Köner, Deathprod.

(more…)