Devonanon - Richard and John
Album and LP released 22nd November 2024Eight years after their debut, ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด, audio-visual enquirers John B McKenna and Richard Greenan re-appear as Devonanon, to share the findings of a decade-long sonic experiment.
Like its predecessor, ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐ & ๐ฑ๐๐๐ is a living, breathing collection of field recordings and compositions, gathered gradually from remote corners of the pair's lives. Familiar waypoints - interwoven microtonal synths, regurgitated live performances, polite whispering, and the gurgling hum of vehicles (land and sea) - all fold into the perpetual stew.
Where ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ read like a crumpled postcard account of fraternal reportage, ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐ & ๐ฑ๐๐๐ is a tone poem on something more amorphous, and out of time - a garbled history of human closeness, upheaval and mark-making, that seems to buckle and creak like a tapestry with no beginning or end.
No two spoonfuls are the same, as our story reels through kosmische library stylings ('Wilderness Engine'), to cortex-quieting free association ('Generate Countryside'), and baroque instrumentation ('Blood Laughing').
Recommended if you like CS + Kreme, Pierre Mariรฉtan, Kirk Barley. ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐ & ๐ฑ๐๐๐ was created in conversation with the visual artist David Huang.
https://devonanon.bandcamp.com/album/richard-john