Glitterbug – Dust

I was sure I’d mentioned this album before but a search suggests I haven’t, other than to say I was listening to it. As I’ve had it on the turntable today I feel I should say something about it, but first, here is photographic evidence to corroborate this sentence:

I’m on side C at the moment (which reveals early on that it is a double album) of this 10 track instrumental album. I saw it in the now defunct record store for £5 and it seemed worth a punt to me, and it was as it very much the sort of thing I like to just sit and listen to.

Glitterbug is a composer, producer, DJ, artist and curator; working mainly in the genres of deep techno, remix (if that is a genre), ambient works, writing music for films or audio-visual installations, everything I’ve heard resonates with a score-like, visual approach, so the latter make sense.

Tracklist

A1	Dust	5:30
A2	Silent Glory	6:12
A3	47th Floor	2:55
B1	Apparition	7:04
B2	Far Far Light	7:39
C1	When The City Was Bare	5:33
C2	The Stars Behind The Light	6:35
C3	Intermissions	4:40
D1	1st Of July	8:18
D2	Look Around	9:05

Till Rohmann is Glitterbug, a production alias referencing Derek Jarman’s final film, put together as a tribute by friends after the director’s death. The film is a wordless compilation of his home movies from 1970 to 1986, set to a Brian Eno score. Footage ranges from casual snippets of home life to behind-the-scenes set footage, along with appearances from famous friends like William S. Burroughs and the Sex Pistols. As the years progress, the spread of AIDS begins to decimate Jarman’s social circle. What this tells us about Till Rohann I don’t know other than it is another cinematic reference.

The first track of the D-side, 1st of July (which i think is only available as a bonus track) is the most upbeat of all the tracks on the album with the others being more contemplative to varying degrees. It’s a welcome light breaking through the darker material to provide balance to this set of songs as a whole and is followed by Look Around, a spacey ambient piece that ends the album in a sombre mood.

 

Due to the telly being on an being told to turn that bloody music down I have been listening on headphones, good ones, and the album sounds great, really well produced, full and rich. I liked this from one review describing the album: Those same streets, at 3:32 am, not a person in sight. This is TRANS-personal music, the sound of shadows and dust and phosphorescence and debris, as told by etheric synthdrones and dusted drum machines. The reviewer in not wrong.

Also, it has a great cover. I enjoy a cover with absolutely no text.

Rating: 8.9

Your F***ing Sunny Day (Episode 25)

1. George Maple – Talk Talk
2. Tennyson – Like What
3. Flume & Chet Faker – Drop the Game
4. Solomon Grey – Broken Light
5. GESAFFELSTEIN – PURSUIT
6. Woodkid – Iron (Official Video)
7. Trentemøller: Complicated
8. Tosca – Have Some Fun
9. Kelpe – “Answered”
10. Glitterbug – Calcutta
11. Boards of Canada – Everything You Do is a Balloon
12. Tycho – See
13. Oneohtrix Point Never – Animals (Director’s Cut)
14. Jon Hopkins – “Open Eye Signal”
15. FKA twigs – M3LL155X

Mix Tape: Volume 3: Side 2 – There is beauty in everything

Side 2 of the 3rd volume mix tape – There is beauty in everything

Roger Goula	–	Something About Silence
Hammock	–	Then the Quiet Explosion
Daughter	–	Touch
Eluvium	–	Regenerative Being
Darkside	–	Metatron
The Future Sound Of London	–	Cascade (Part 1)
Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke	–	Beautiful People
Glitterbug	–	Dust
Solomon Grey	–	Choir To The Wild – Extended
Beth Gibbons, Rustin Man	–	Mysteries – 1
Fever Ray	–	When I Grow Up
FKA twigs	–	Pendulum
Massive Attack, Azekel	–	Ritual Spirit

Available on spotify:

or apple music: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/playlist/there-is-beauty-in-everything/idpl.85b69c262d0945d399ed36d1f77167e5

Side 1 and other mix tapes available HERE

The Listening List

22/12/2016 – 30/12/2016

P.I.L – Live In Tokyo
Craig Armstrong – It’s Nearly Tomorrow
Adelbert Von Deyen – Atmosphere
Glitterbug – Dust
Max Richter – Sleep Remixes
Can – Ege Bamyasi
Deacon Blue – Fellow Hoodlums
Funkstörung – Funkstörung
To Rococo Rot – The Amateur View
Milan W. – Intact
The Cult – Sonic Temple
Björk ‎– The Music From Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein – Stranger Things Volume 1
Four Tet – Pause
Gala Drop – II