Graham Lambkin - Poem (For Voice & Tape) - VINYL LP

Rhove - Popolari [VINYL LP] Italy - Import date 04/05/2024

A study in anticipation, Softly Softly Copy Copy (Kye, 2009) repurposes the expectant rumblings of an audience-in-waiting, lifted by Lambkin from various concert recordings of the German kosmische band Tangerine Dream. These bootlegged clips provide a skeleton for various sonic scraps and interludes-including distorted and abandoned fragments from Lambkin's archive, new recordings on guitar and violin by Austin Argentieri and Samara Lubelski, respectively-that, together, form a composition suffused with the atmosphere of potential energy. With this Blank Forms reissue, Softly Softly Copy Copy is available on LP for the first time.

Graham Lambkin returns with a long awaited double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since Community. A transatlantic mediation on the rooms where Lambkin has lived and worked, Aphorisms summons up hallucinatory vistas by way of the composer's collage technique, layering field recordings, piano, guitar, percussion, vocal fragments, and repurposed elements on top of one another in double, triple, and quadruple exposures. Like the Shadow Ring's Lindus-recorded between Folkestone and Miami-Aphorisms ruminates on estrangement and displacement, catching Lambkin as he returns to London after two decades of living in the States, in his words, Inchleaving home to return home.Inch Aphorisms is Lambkin at his best, extending methodologies only hinted at previously and taking his now-idiosyncratic mission statement to a new chapter. If it ain't broke don't fix it.