Focus: Room 40
Australian experimental label run by Lawrence English. Room40, a beacon of sound…ringing out from the deepest south. Also home to our sibling labels Someone Good and A Guide To Saints. Room40 artists : Ben Frost, Norman Westberg, Janek Schaefer, Mike Cooper, John Chantler, Lawrence English, Haco, …
Their new release is Unearth by Tony Buck. The composer delivers his most accomplished solo composition. Built across several years, the record is the culmination of his approaches to percussive intensive, pulse and explorations in compositional density. The architecture of this work is framed unsurprisingly around a core of percussion but also draws heavily on Buck’s less known interests in guitar, synthesiser and field recordings. These elements coalesce, haunting one another in an evasive manner that is inexorable, creating a slow moving dialogue of extreme dynamic interchange.