The Shadow Ring: Wax-Work Echoes Format:LP

The Shadow Ring: Wax-Work Echoes Format:LPOriginally conceived as a compilation of outtakes and live recordings from The Shadow Rings 1995 stateside tour, Wax Work Echoes takes its name from the first line of Put the Music in Its Coffin, the title track of the groups breakthrough release. Lambkin abandons the bits and bobs approach, advancing the Shadow Ring concept with entirely original material that builds on the units self mythologizing lyrics, celebrates the clicking of horse hooves,

Written aided by mobile phones

” organized by architect Arata Isozaki and composer-writer Tōru Takemitsu

He pushes the instrument toward abstract sound

David Kennedy

to study the winding paths taken by Catherine Christer Hennix in five decades of virtually peerless exploration

Two others

a 1975 studio record by his New Direction Unit

The record begins and ends with Neo’s slowly built-up waves of ambient harmony being cut by grating digital noise

and the very experience of listening

conducted by Blank Forms’ Curatorial Assistant Adrian Rew in 2018

form a composition suffused with the atmosphere of potential energy

Straight from the Throat