Tommy Perman, Simon Kirby & Rob St. John: Concrete Antenna

Jon Doyle — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:00:23 +0000

Last year we told you about Rob St. Johns’ genre-bending Surface Tension project, where he walked along the River Lea in East London, making recordings as he went. Well now St. John has teamed up with Tommy Perman and Simon Kirby to tackle another cross-disciplinary art project, entitled Concrete Antenna.

Described as an “LP vinyl set of music, art prints, essays and tide table”, Concrete Antenna sees the artists produce a substantial body of work inspired by their sound installation in the new tower at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Full of warm drones, the album is a neo-classical exploration of the environment, using field recordings from the local area and archival sound samples dressed with gentle electronics and minimalist piano. Think somewhere between Lejsovka & Freund and Benjamin Shaw. The result is something rich and evocative, packed with the slow, geological melancholy conjured by time passing over a landscape.

Check out the short documentary on the project below:

You can buy the release in various formats from Random Spectacular, including some absolutely gorgeous vinyl editions. If you find yourself in Edinburgh, the Concrete Antenna exhibition will be at the Sculpture Workshop until Christmas, so you have a month or so to get along to experience it.

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