Marconi Union - The Fear Of Never Landing - VINYL LP

Manchester musicians Marconi Union return with their new album, Signals, set for on 5th November 2021 via Just Music. Signals is the latest addition to Marconi Union's highly acclaimed discography. Despite having released twelve albums in the last eighteen years they continue to experiment and push boundaries. 'In some respects Signals is a more traditional songwriting album than anything we've done before, but it draws on the same techniques we've used on our previous albums' After their previous album, the largely beat-less Dead Air, one might think that Marconi Union would be primarily influenced by synth players or guitarists. However, it turns out that Signals was actually informed by the bands' admiration of a number of different drummers and this played a significant part in helping shape it's sound. 'We were quite inspired by various players like Jaki Liebezeit, Clive Deamer and Tony Allen and tried to imagine what our music would sound like with them playing on it.' Signals combines synthetic textures with organic sound, and merges the familiar with the unknown, transporting the listener deep into their imagination. The one-word title is both mysterious and evocative, suggesting a multitude of images that range from high-tech electronic messaging to ghostly abandoned radio stations and even that most basic level of human expression, body language. It Is both ironic and yet somehow so right, that a group so regularly described as 'enigmatic' should make an album that alludes to communication. Although, long-term fans will be relieved to note that Marconi Union decline to enlighten us on what all this means.1. Cycles Repeat 2. The Halo3. Blowback4. Strata5. A Citizen's Dream6. Breaking Point7. Looking Through The Ilex

Starting with the following year's Under Wires And Searchlights, they've created an explorative body of instrumental work that's shifted between electronica, dub, minimalism, avant-jazz and ambient music. Along the way they've collaborated with the likes of Jah Wobble, remixed Max Richter and Vök and provided soundtracks for art installations and other visual media. They've also had their own music remixed by Biosphere and Japan's Steve Jansen, among others.The new album offers ample evidence of a band in it's prime. Marconi Union still sound vital and original, enthused by the possibilities that music has to offer. InchWe've never wanted to repeat ourselves,Inch states Talbot. InchWe've made ten albums and have been going for 17 years, but it still feels fresh. That's been so important for us all the way through. We're looking to do new things all the timeInch co-founder Richard Talbot says.Indeed, the exquisite Dead Air bears only a passing resemblance to it's 2016 forerunner, Ghost Stations. The trio have dispensed with beats, brass and guest musicians this time around, opting instead for a more intimate and textural approach, a constantly evolving soundworld of tones and sensory impressions.Dead Air also bears little resemblance to the trio's initial vision for it. InchThe album we set out to make had far more of a rhythmic element,Inch explains Talbot, Inchbut fairly late in the process, we decided to completely change direction.Inch This is entirely in keeping with Marconi Union's guiding methodology. Ideas remain fluid throughout the writing process, until Talbot and bandmates Jamie Crossley and Duncan Meadows ultimately settle on what feels right to them.As such, Dead Air is a sublime testament to their collective instinct.Marconi Union's most successful album to date is Weightless (Ambient Trans-missions Vol. 2). 'Weightless is widely considered to be 'the mo

Originally released in 2014 and their most successful album to date, the band's 7th studio album Weightless (Ambient l Transmissions Vol 2) is now to be released on vinyl.The album includes the now iconic and seminal track Weightless together with 5 more tracks, the latter derived from the ideas of the former, simply entitled Part 1 - Part 6. The tracks are minimal, combining warm drones and drifting sounds with occasional sparse rhythms. The inspiration for the album came after the band were commissioned to collaborate with a sound therapist from the British Academy of Sound Therapy and write a piece of relaxing music, the frst InchWeightlessInch track. When scientifcally tested for it's effectiveness scientists reported that their research indicated that the music slowed the heart rate, reduced blood pressure and decreased levels of cortisol, a steroid hormone that is released in response to stress. When the research was made public there was an instant and intense media reaction which continues to this day1. Weightless Part 12. Weightless Part 23. Weightless Part 34. Weightless Part 45. Weightless Part 56. Weightless Part 6