What you say
No-one has reviewed Sol Powr by Neil Campbell yet.
What we say
 This record left our Ant feeling ecstatic.
Currently playing is another disc from Neil Campbell ( I went to school with a kid with the same name). 'Sol Powr' compiles tracks previously available as downloads, 12"s and lathe cuts. An enchanting mix of shimmering electronics and lord knows what. What's great about this music are that many of the sounds are unidentifiable, deep atmospherics created with both digital and analogue gear. A key player in the UK experimental underground scene for many years. On his Music Mundane label.
What the label says:
A timely reissue of an LP that originally saw the light of day on vinyl,
courtesy of the esteemed Finnish label Lal Lal Lal, some time toward the
start of this millennium. Well, the 300 copies soon disappeared, Campbell
and Lal Lal Lal moved on to further releases and everyone was happy. That
is, all apart from those who missed out and had to trawl ebay and rare
record lists if they wanted to hear what amounted to only the second Neil
Campbell solo record, after 1997's "These premises are no longer
bugged".
Campbell is of course familiar from his recordings with Vibracathedral
Orchestra, Sunroof!, Richard Youngs, The A Band and many more over the
past two decades. His current project, Astral Social Club, goes from
strength to strength, prompting Dusted magazine to call it "the
purest expression of his art of the ecstatic on record". In many
ways, "SOL POWR" is the logical precursor to Astral Social
Club, with its heavy focus on keyboard-driven electronic pulse flotation
- when it was originally released Julian Cope remarked that it
"sounds as though Martin Rev had teamed up with Moebius and
Roedelius, during their CLUSTER 2 period".
This reissue, the first release on Campbell's own Music Mundane label,
supplements the original vinyl LP with three additional tracks from the
same period. Two of them were originally released on a miniscule-edition
7" lathe-cut by Stavanger's Gold Soundz Records, while the third was
commissioned for download on Brian Lavelle's online TechNOH label. They
fit right in with the LP's original seven tracks, forming fifty of the
most glorious minutes in Campbell's not-inconsiderable
discography.
Edition of 500 in hard DVD style case. |
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