John Roberts - Glass Eights

* After John Roberts became the first american artist on the Dial Records imprint in 2008, it took almost two years to finish his first album. GLASS EIGHTS debuts a sound impeccably curated and delicately enigmatic, John Roberts recreates real Deep House Music.

* With its contemplative instrumental weave, GLASS EIGHTS asks broader cultural questions about the psychological
function of music as it blurs distinctions between sublimation and expression, escape and confrontation, medication and
symptom, repression and reserve. The electric and grand piano, organ, violin, modular synthesizers and eclectic percussion split, shatter and reform, disclosing an aesthetic sensibility which delicately reflects on the eerie stillness of a grey day, the repetition of a single note on a detuned upright piano, a deflated balloon, the white of a funeral arrangement, exhibiting a kind of discrete, perverse hopefulness.

* Echoes of influence can be found in The Smiths' self-deprecating charm of the tragic, the muted, off-key eroticism of Bonny Prince Billy, introverted house music of early 80's Chicago’ undermining its own progression, falling apart and
collecting itself into darker psychological territory. The album nods to the production of mainstream Rap and R&B,
cultural and ethnic appropriations/dialogues between early European and American electronic music and modern anxiety,
acknowledging both the productive and problematic nature of exchange, appropriation and technological innovation.

* Roberts had releases on John Daly's legendary Feelmusic, Dial Sublabel Laid, Dial Records and had the most successful track on 10 Years Dial Compilation 2010. Incredible remix for Motor City Drum Ensemble coming soon

TRACKLIST:

1 Lesser 2 Navy Blue 3 Ever Or Not 4 Dedicated 5 Interlude (Telephone) 6 Pruned 7 Porcelain 8 August 9 Went 10 Glass Eights

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