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Up the Turret Mil
(LLCD004)
01. Squinting Skyward
02. Star Rover
03. Ignite a Noise
04. Harvester
05. The Loves of Zero
06. Shoreline Frequency
07. I Trap Totem Pulp
08. After a Tectonic Melt Purr
09. Following Transparency Monodies
10. Up the Turret Mil
11. Last Town Mile
total time: 43:10
Rich Johnson - trumpet, laptop, guitar and electronics
All compositions by Rich Johnson (modosonic)
Produced by Rich Johnson
“Up the Turret Mil” explores a mix of trumpets, guitars, and pianos combined with laptop glitch, sampling, and musique concrète. Many of the songs began as experiments with laptop and electronic-acoustic treatments on the trumpet and bridge Johnson’s many influences – from free jazz to folk music.
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Toxicpete.co.uk:
"'Up The Turret Mill', I suppose, could be likened to Terry Riley meets Stockhausen; take the more melodic, trance-like Riley and shake in some of Karlheinz's angular and spiky outpourings and you'll start to get a little closer to where Rich Johnson is going... His music has a feeling of intelligence from an intuitive perspective - it's as if the inner, slightly more introspective musician is vying with the outer, extroverted techno-wizard... 'Up The Turret Mil' by Rich Johnson is experimentation with heart and soul - there is a point to this work and there is an end product - if you can get your head aligned with Rich Johnson's oscillating musical world you might just find that heart and soul for yourself and be able to drink in its unique and quite intoxicating elixir - you might just find the gold in the potion..."
TerraScope.co.uk:
"Although the music is strange and experimental, it never becomes harsh or discordant, maintaining an inner harmony and a fragile surrealism, vibrant yet controlled. Definitely a grower “Up the Turret Mil” is an album that can surprise every time it is heard, the lightness of touch just one of its many wonders."
LeicesterBangs.co.uk:
"The calm, serene and organic nature, of the majority of the CD, is augmented, not overshadowed by the avant-garde free-jazz intrusions."
WhisperinandHollerin.com :
"'Rich Johnson's atmospheric and rewarding debut album focuses on textures more than beats. It smoothly cuts and pastes laptop glitch with samples of trumpets, guitars and piano. The effect is to produce the type of lush experimental ambience that graces established labels like Leaf and Rune Grammofon. It comes as no surprise to learn that Johnson has already contributed to recordings on the latter. The minimalist tone makes it an album that creates a gentle mood and one which glides calmly rather than imposing on the listener. If the spirit is willing, the album's understated organic pulse is one that has the capacity to be both absorbing and transporting."