This 20 minute one-track EP is available only on Digital Download (unfortunately for the collectors out there); with Adkins thematically covering the notion of ‘drift’ and a lone figure wandering round a city, locked in their own world. ‘Residual Forms’ is a beautiful release; with captivating drones and harmonies that slide and weave gently together …
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Monty Adkins’ work continues to plough increasingly deep furrows into material at the meeting point of ambient and experimental electronics. The results are uniformly beautiful, and this short piece is no exception, slow shifting chords and clouds matched by episodes of more blistered music, positioned with Adkins’ typically unerring skill so as to draw out …
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Inspired by the psychogeographic method of exploration based on the so-called “drift” – an aimless wondering aroudn the city, exploring its hidden resonances, which lay just beneath the surface -, which got mainly applied to his fascinating wandering in the meander of London by Welsh writer Iain Sinclair, this one-track record by Dr.Monty Adkins delivers …
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Chouchou de ces pages, le label portugais Crónica nous envoie régulièrement des productions autant recherchées qu’abouties. Court, une seule plage de vingt minutes, ‘Residual Forms’ de MONTY ADKINS est d’autant plus remarquable qu’une discrète beauté l’envahit après chaque seconde. Telle une dérive dans les artères d’une cité apaisée, l’œuvre de l’électroacousticien britannique s’imprègne d’une splendide …
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‘Deriva’, termine chiave dell’ultimo lavoro di Monty Adkins uscito per l’etichetta Crònica. Il lavoro viene introdotto come di seguito: ‘una deriva urbana / con sentieri labirintici di beatitudine intossicante / forme residuali / danza della retina / di un sogno troppo stanco’ . Il sentore di una revérie ossidata, un vagare che ha poco a …
