Artist: John Chantler
Title: Which Way To Leave?
Format: 12″ vinyl
Label: ROOM40
Cat nr: RM463
Genre: Experimental electronica
Tracklist
| A1 | Falling Forward | |
| A2 | Two And Four | |
| A3 | Clearing | |
| A4 | Fixation Pulse | |
| A5 | Lesser Demands | |
| A6 | All Visible Signs | |
| B1 | First December | |
| B2 | Second December | |
| B3 | Beginning Again |
- Cello – Okkyung Lee
- Design, Photography By – Traianos Pakioufakis
- Electric Bass – Carina Thorén
- Music By, Electronics – John ChantlerBoomkat Product Review:
John Chantler’s ever-searching sensibilities lead him back to Room40 for a suite of crystalline modular synth intricacies realised at his home studio, now located in Stockholm after stints in Japan and South London, with additional recordings made at his now-local, world renowned EMS facility.
Which Way To Leave? can be read as a response to his new surroundings; a sort of reflexive reaction filtered and felt out thru finely meshed, gaseous layers of melody and timbral thizz with an absorbing, refreshing sense of strolling momentum and lush mindfulness allowing him to imperceptibly fold in guest contributions from Carina Thorén (his partner in For Barry Ray) on electric bass, and Okkyung Lee on cello.
It’s a sound that lies on the border between new age optimism and the abstract traditions of 20th century concrète and electro-acoustic traditions, mixing the home-brewed, psychedelic potency of one discipline with the more studious processing, diaphanous dimensions and abstract textures associated to the other realm, making their putative borders porous and interchangeable via subliminal transitions and angular incision.
