Lo Alternative Frequencies – new sonic exploration.

Action	Track Number	Track Name	Duration
Play	01	Sonny
Play	02	Two Wires
Play	03	Swim Pool
Play	04	Appendix
Play	05	On Up!
Play	06	Drums Gone Awry
Play	07	Eh Up
Play	08	Closing Circles

Description

Vowels is a band comprising James Rutledge and drummer Chris Walmsley. Like all Rutledge’s other work, it’s deep on the sonics, meticulously crafted and truly mesmerising.

Krautrock at heart, it’s a brutal and cosmic melange of sound and rhythm, where Terry Riley like keyboard motifs entwine with Battles intensity drumming and clouds of audio detritus, gamelan gongs, rewired synthesisers and clashing feedback guitars.

Oscillating between pools of crystal clear ambience and miasmic clouds of dense noise, it somehow manages to span whole decades of musical exploration: the fractured psych dreams of The United States of America, the dense weave of Stockhausen’s Hymnen, the intensity of Conrad Schnitzler era Tangerine Dream, the mind altering drones of Growing and the ferocious sonic assault of Boredoms.

Epic in scope and faultless in its execution The Pattern Prism is surely a contender for one of the most inspirational and intense rock albums of the year.

The record is already gaining a list of heavyweight admirers including Geoff Barrow, Julian Cope and DFA.

Vowels will be playing live on the 27th of June at Corsica Studios along with Joakim plus Lo & Tigersushi DJs.