DEVONANON - RICHARD & JOHN

1. Perpetual Stew
2. Turn Loose
3. Deep Time
4. Wilderness Engine
5. Sleeping Frog
6. Tide Dial
7. Generate Countryside
8. Enhance Again
9. Bog Myrtle
10. Healthy Channel
11. Data In Clay
12. Blood Laughing (feat Masayoshi Fujita / Rosa Juritz)
13. Snow Boy

London-based ambient label Kit Records turn to duo Devonanon (John B Mckenna and Richard Greenan) to release their (semi-self-titled-album) 'Richard & John'. In a similar vein to the majority of releases on Kit, this keeps the listener guessing and treads the line between a few genres; experimental / avant-garde / folk / ambient. An intriguing offering.

Notes from the label - 

Eight 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 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 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').

If you like this, why not check out other releases from Kit Records and other releases from our experimental music category.