Richard & John by Devonanon - Kit Records [KR74] FLAC download included with physical items

Richard & John

Devonanon

A 13 track leftfield/idm album (38m 54s) — released November 22nd 2024 on Kit Records

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10 years after their debut, 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, audio-visual enquirers John B McKenna and Richard Greenan re-appear as Devonanon, to share the findings of a decade-long sonic experiment.

Like its predecessor, 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 & 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 is a living, breathing collection of field recordings and compositions, gathered gradually from remote corners of the pair's lives. Familiar waypoints - interwoven microtonal synths, regurgitated live performances, polite whispering, and the gurgling hum of vehicles (land and sea) - all fold into the perpetual stew.

Where 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 read like a crumpled postcard account of fraternal reportage, 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 & 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 is a tone poem on something more amorphous, and out of time - a garbled history of human closeness, upheaval and mark-making, that seems to buckle and creak like a tapestry with no beginning or end.

No two spoonfuls are the same, as our story reels through kosmische library stylings ('Wilderness Engine'), to cortex-quieting free association ('Generate Countryside'), and baroque instrumentation ('Blood Laughing', which features beautiful turns from Masayoshi Fujita on vibraphone, and Rosa Juritz on bassoon).

Recommended if you like CS + Kreme, Pierre Mariétan, Kirk Barley. 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 & 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 was created in conversation with the visual artist David Huang.
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