Bass Communion/Modelbau 'Analysis Reveals Nothing...' CD + 24pp. PRE-ORDER

Bass Communion/Modelbau 'Analysis Reveals Nothing of Substance' CD + 24pp. booklet + obi strip

(Lumberton Trading Company)
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TRACKLIST

1. Sussurus of Eldritch Vellum
2. Three Obsolete Cartographies
3. Murder of Automatons
4. Spandrels of Memory
5. Pale Ichor of Tamarind
6. Iridescent Caducary of Scars
7. Fractured Skein of Cataracts
8. Crepuscular Cicatrix
9. Sliver of Petrichor
10. Synesthetic Cantillations

When Bass Communion was invited to appear at a Fourth Dimension/LTCo label event at Cafe OTO in May 2024, Steven Wilson (the man behind BC) agreed on the condition that his long-time friend and fellow traveller of music’s furthest reaches Frans de Waard could join him. Being acquainted with Frans’ work and having even released a couple of things by him ourselves over the years (on Fourth Dimension), we were more than happy with this idea.

However, when the pair met in London at Steven's studio to prepare for this extremely rare and decidedly low-key Bass Communion appearance, they not only rehearsed for the live set, but also naturally fell into spontaneously recording new material together.  Some might say this was destined to happen given their shared history.

Using a variety of sound sources and alien landscape electronics, these compositions represent a perfect meeting of minds. Neither Steven and Frans are strangers to the notion of collaborative work. Over the years, Bass Communion has collaborated with Muslimgauze, Vidna Obmana/Dirk Serries, Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough, Andrew Liles and Frans’ now hibernating Freiband project. Frans himself has worked with Orphax, Machinefabriek, Scanner, RLW and many more. 

To that end, 'Analysis Reveals Nothing of Substance' feels like the result of two people completely attuned to each other as the music unfolds throughout its 70 minute-plus duration. In the manner of jazz improvisers of yore, there’s something deeply alchemical afoot as the lo-fi field hisses and creaks, electronic gestures and opalescent patterns emulsify into new forms. From the garbled chatter of birds and lost space probe bleeps of ‘Murder of Automatons’, to the dishevelled ambient glare of ‘Iridescent Caducary of Scars’, or the eerie tones, death rattle pulses and metallic clanging of ‘Crepuscular Cicatrix’, everything is drizzled in an oppressive sense of 21st century disquiet.

While there is a natural sonic continuance from 2024's acclaimed Bass Communion album 'The Itself of Itself', this new music owes as much to the incredible sound worlds Frans has created with his Modelbau project over the last fifteen years.

'Analysis Reveals Nothing of Substance' is ultimately an album for those who crave a sense of depth and sophistication from exploratory electronic music.

Scheduled for March 2026.

Limited to 600.

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