Stylus & Nathan Swenson - Last Night Before The Colour

‘Last Night Before The Colour’ is a collaboration between STYLUS (Welsh left-field musician Dafydd Morgan) and West Country artist NATHAN SWENSON whose influences include Robert Rauschenberg and Diego Velázquez, and is the tenth album release by Stylus. This is third on his Stylus Recording Company label. Of the other nine Stylus albums four have appeared on the Ochre Records label, ‘The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut At Freshwater West’, ‘Skomargraph’, ‘Archif:01’ and ‘Exposition’ (an album of Stylus recordings re-mixed by Experimental Audio Research -Spaceman 3’s Sonic Boom). Whilst ‘Mynydd Preseli’ was released on Mar//ino Records, ‘Pedwar’ on Fourth Dimension and ‘Eisteddfod’ on Irrational Arts. ‘Morgan’s music demands to be heard’ - from Stewart Lee in The Sunday Times, who also likened the Stylus debut CD to that of the legendary ‘Dutch Harbor’ CD by The Boxhead Ensemble.   Edwin Pouncey in The Wire likened it to that of Lamonte Young stating the music was ‘moving and empathetic’. All albums received healthy airplay on John Peel’s BBC Radio One Show. The music of STYLUS has in many reviews been likened to that created by POPUL VUH who provided many a soundtrack to the films of WERNER HERZOG. I was introduced to the work of Nathan Swenson by my label manager. He suggested and came up with the idea that I write some music whilst studying this one piece of art. I agreed. What do I see in the painting. It evokes feelings to me of desolation and isolation. It has been an intriguing and challenging project. I have never met Nathan Swenson. There is no need to. I think all I have to say to him is here, in the music. – DAFYDD MORGAN.

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