Shape Worship are new to me, and the fact that this cd is a re-mix of the artists A City Remembrancer that is about London and it comes with a great Press release praising all the re-mixers who I also have not heard of I've decided to re-write the second page of the press release for the review with a few twists of my own to decontextualize and re-appraise it.
The album opens with Laura Cannell's remix of Tamesis. Laura practises her violin as a primary instrument as the track explore the inner reaches of Norwich Street and it's Swooping Talons and Horse Brawls for inner beauty somewhere close to Fetter Lane.
Pye Corner Audio's Remix of Vertices (Ziggurat) mixes clinical electro sounds to create a stasis perfect for a death waltz across Smithfield market having staggered out of Fabric prior to its demise. A nocturne splicing myriad inspirational influences, into a form of near background disinclination to dance, more perfect for shuffling over the cobbles too.
Eva Bowan's remix of An Exemplar brings polish Multidisciplinary techniques and organic textures to realizing that you've staggered out into the middle of the Vauxhall one way system tripping off your nut and it's already light, the exciting design of the bus station becomes your only focus as the traffic whizzes by you as you search for that field you think your standing in.
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The Hoofus Remix of 1987 (Interlude) oscillates between Doofus and hoofus alienating occult intangibles while evoking grebo's gone clubbing scratching post-industrial warehouse parties in Acton.
The Offshore Level by Kemper Norton Re-mix of Necropolis (so Many) sounds perfect for Iklecktik listening for the nostalgia and myth's associated with the old Necropolis station at Waterloo, bathed in washes of Blood red sound as the onward roll of death takes its toll.
Lutine's Remix of Tamesis actually sounds like a song with delicate instrumentation and vocal harmonies discussing the burial grounds that may or may not be about the Bone hill behind the Royal Artillery Company which is enough for me to want to wear a white flower in my buttonhole.
If any of this sounds like you need to hear it as it re-imagines an album you've probably not heard then go and find out more at www.frontandfollow.com
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