Olive Green Colour

Tracklist:

1. Forgetting
2. Inseparable
3. Autonomy Fantasy Annihilator
4. Hope Window
5. Coigach Aer
6. Glimmer Machine
7. In Memory of the Always Already
8. Recognition

Dextro, the project of? Newcastle based Scot Ewan Mackenzie (also the drummer in Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs) has returned with a fifth album, Respire: a journey into an absorbed space, where acoustic motifs combine with symphonic electronics to create enchanted soundscapes. Dextro, having been released through Border Community (James Holden, Nathan Fake, Luke Abbott) and Groenland Records (Neu, Harmonia, Eno), and remixed by Clark (Warp), The Village Orchestra and Dane Law, among others, crafts a distinctive sound of hypnotic patterns, emotive melodies, and ethereal drones. An ambition on Respire, Mackenzie suggests, was to try and create a sense of freedom for thought and feeling where,for example, we might consider deeper systems of time or ecology in a more reverent way. Characterised by minimalist rhythms on the one hand, and subtle melodic phrases, often on piano or guitar, on the other, Dextro is committed to sonic experimentation. Respire involves collaborations with prominent musicians in the Newcastle scene, such as the free form Saxophone of Faye MacCalman (Archipelago, Me Lost Me, The Unthanks) on Forgetting, the poignant Cello of Tom Merrit Smith on Inseparable and Hope Window, and the brooding Harmonium of Kate Halsall (Galvanize Ensemble) on Inseparable. Recording of some parts also took place at Blank Studios, home of fellow Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs bandmate and engineer Sam Grant, who also mastered the album.

returning, dream is the second album from Paradise Cinema theFourth World inspired project led by multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet/Szun Waves). While Wyllies other projects move between tightknit electronica, widescreen minimalism and improvised ambient sounds, returning, dream contains nods to Jon Hassell, Terry Riley, Don Cherry and Midori Takada as well as more contemporary electronic, ambient and non-western music and even draws inspiration from physics and science fiction.