‘LIDAR Hailing UFOs’ by Leverton Fox | New Album, ‘In The Flicker’
Exclusive track premiere of ‘LIDAR Hailing UFOs’ by improvising trio Leverton Fox, taken from the upcoming album, ‘In The Flicker’, out October 21th via Not Applicable.
Leverton Fox is the celebrated trio comprising trumpeter and electronic musician, Alex Bonney, drummer Tim Giles, and electronic musician and sound artist, Sam Britton, a.k.a. Isambard Khroustaliov. Recorded during the first summer respite of the COVID-19 pandemic (September 2020), ‘In The Flicker’ is Leverton Fox’s eighth album to date. Across the seven segued tracks, Leverton Fox invites the listener on an immersive aural journey of improvised, experimental electronic music.
Remarkably, the album was recorded outdoors, amongst the trees in a woodland in Sussex. Utilising pairs of ambient mics for the recording, Leverton Fox captured not only the other-worldly music and sounds created by the band, but also the natural sound environment of the woodland itself. Inspired by Sternklang, Stockhausen’s park music for five musician groups, In The Flicker presents itself as a time-and-site-specific conversation between the musicians, interspersed and influenced by the setting and the surrounding sounds of nature.
‘In The Flicker’ was created through extensive use of analogue synths, drum machines, percussion, trumpet, and effects, alongside found objects, such as trees used for percussion and sounds from the environmental setting, tangentially making it the most explicitly ‘1970s-inspired’ album they’ve made. One might imagine outtakes from ‘Ummagumma’ / ‘Atom Heart Mother’ era Pink Floyd transacting with the expansive jams of the Grateful Dead’s Infrared Roses. Elsewhere there are haunting and melancholic reminders of the earthly, voice-like tone of Jon Hassell, the dank, latent danger of nature represented in Lars Van Trier’s Melancholia and Antichrist, the joyous machine and synth bubbling of Hancock’s Sextant, and the fluid ambient explorations of Oren Ambarchi. Leverton Fox’s In The Flicker, however, is a wholly unique album, one that not only documents but also beautifies time and space.
Leverton Fox:
Alex Bonney – electronics / pocket trumpet
Tim Giles – electronics / percussion
Isambard Khroustaliov – electronics
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