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CHRIS CARTER Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 Vinyl LP 2018

Original price £28.99 - Original price £28.99
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£28.99
£28.99 - £28.99
Current price £28.99
Cat no. STUMM415
Tracklist:

Blissters
Tangerines
Nineteen 7
Pernubicua
Pillars of Wah
Modularity
Field Depth
Moon Two
Durlin
Corvus
Tones Map
Dust & Spiders
Gradients
Lab Test
Shildreke
Uysring
Ghosting
Noise Floor
Post Industrial
Rehndim
Roane
Time Curious Glows
Ars Vetus
Hobbs End
Inkstain

Seventeen years on from his last solo release, the twenty-five tracks collected on Chris Carter's Chemistry Lessons Volume One (CCCL Volume 1) were the product of six years spent working on solo material in the Norfolk home studio he shares with Cosey Fanni Tutti. CCCL Volume 1 reinforces Carter's significant but often under-appreciated role in the development of electronic music - a journey that for Carter started ahead of his work with Throbbing Gristle (alongside Cosey, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge), and continued through Chris & Cosey, Carter Tutti, Carter Tutti Void as well as his own solo and collaborative releases under his own name. Here you will find music with a distinctly futuristic leaning, with insistent melodic patterns and a distinct sense of wonderment at the limitless possibilities of science. "If there's an influence on the album, it's definitely '60s radiophonic," Carter agrees. "Over the last few years I've also been listening to old English folk music, almost like a guilty pleasure, and so some of tracks on the album hark back to an almost ingrained DNA we have for those kinds of melodies. They're not dissimilar to nursery rhymes in some ways." Despite having been worked on over an extended period between various artistic projects in a variety of different moods, situations and circumstances, CCCL Volume 1's experiments never feel like Carter noodling around aimlessly in his studio-laboratory. Instead there is an inner coherence and a distinctively Chris Carter approach to sound and execution. It's an endeavour that places CCCL Volume 1 comfortably alongside everything else that this sonic scientist has been involved in, and yet one that showcases a restless, questing creative spirit forever scouting for new ideas.