Discrepant – CREP68
Ross Alexander first came to our attention with Memorias Vol.1 -
Bugandan Sacred Places, released back in 2017 on Sucata Tapes, it
featured a mind altering mix of recorded sounds from a series of visited
sites considered sacred within the Bugandan kingdom and session
recordings with Ugandan musicians Albert Sempeke and the Nilotika
Collective layered with his own original composition using the Yamaha
DX7 and programmed FM synthesis. The result being a unique
reconfiguration of new age vocabulary with East African traditional
sensibilities. The tape quickly sold out and the new Volume of Memorias
presented here arrives now on the mother label Discrepant, on Vinyl with
an expanded sound palette appropriate to the format.
Memorias Vol.2 - High Atlas to The Sahara Desert is the logical
progression of Volume 1. - based on a series of field recordings
Alexander made during a trip through the High Atlas Mountains and into
the Sahara Desert in 2018. The aim of the trip was to visit a gathering
of nomadic musicians at an oasis close to the Algerian border. Like
Memorias Vol1. the recordings made on the trip were then later
processed, layered and arranged with original compositions. Where Vol1.
had clear nods to New Age music this volume explores the more ambient
side of 80’s Industrial sound.
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