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WHYT 101LP
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London-based experimental artist and new AD 93 signing feeo announces the project's debut album Goodness. Illuminated with breathtaking vocals and uncanny poetics, Goodness is an open, impressionistic assemblage of drone, ambient, experimental electronics, improvisational music and minimalist dance music. Across protean forms and voices, feeo explores an ever-evolving counterpoint between connection and isolation, the city and the natural world, the external and the internal. Contrasting beauty with volatility, communion with disintegration, feeo creates an album of absorbing tension between distinct contrasts. With eleven interconnected pieces of music, each engaged in symbiotic dialogue, Goodness represents a sinuous yet uniform work. Each track is like a link in a chain, with each piece revealing its luster when held up to the light. feeo describes the album as "an exploration of simultaneous yet opposing states of being; darkness and lightness, obscurity and visibility and most fundamentally, solitude and togetherness. Each song is an adumbration; a partial sketch of one aspect of the LP -- each finding its complete meaning when read in the context of the whole." Mirroring the push and pull of perception and contemporary experience, Goodness oscillates between disparate moods and intensities, reflecting moments of interiority, intimacy, seclusion, collective experience and exterior turbulence. With gentle lyricism and mercurial musicality, the album carries listeners through multitudes, from the ruptured spoken word noise of "Days pt.1," to the elemental close-mic ambient of "The Mountain," through the arhythmic electronic soulfulness of "Win!" and the aching piano loops of "Sandpit," to the languid lap steel abstraction of "There Is No I" and the luminous improv cycles of "The Hammer Strikes The Bell." Together, these tracks form an album of profoundly emotive, radical resonances; music both tender and fearless. Goodness marks an evolution in feeo's artistic practice, both as her first full-length release, and as a product of wider collaboration after several years working independently. Welcoming close collaborators and select affiliates into the fold, the process of making Goodness was very much like the record itself; a deeply personal, special convergence of expression and artistry. Hailed by The Wire as "part of an exciting new wave of London experimental artists and improvisors," Goodness signifies a culmination in feeo's output, which spans an acclaimed run of solo releases as well as collaborations with Loraine James and bassist Caius Williams.
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