V2 records news – Squarepusher – new album ‘Kammerkonzert’
SQUAREPUSHER Announces New Album "Kammerkonzert"
OUT APRIL 10th
debut March 26
Single "K2 Central" is out
Squarepusher - K2 Central (Official Video)

end March 26
single 'K7 Museum' Kammerkonzert by Squarepusher - Releases - WARP

Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, presents Kammerkonzert, a riot of onyx-hard, hyperfast riffs, fiendish orchestral themes and handbrake turns through varieties of progressive, ambient, electronic and experimental music. The album is out April 10th on his longtime label Warp Records. Out now is the single 'K2 Central', with a music video created by Jo Apps, which you can listen to/watch here. The album is available

Squarepusher, the singular hardcore rave/electronic producer, experimental musician and creator of futuristic forms of fusion, has a three-decade-long back catalogue studded with jewel-like records. From the furious breakbeat acid and pulverising live bass-guitar attack of Feed Me Weird Things (1996) to the self-explanatory Music for Robots (2014)via the virtuosic live showcase of Solo Electric Bass 1 (2009) and the luxurious and otherworldly concrète jazz of Ultravisitor (2004), few contemporary musicians have covered as much ground in as sure-footed a manner. Given that his dazzling new album for Warp is essentially a chamber concerto with Jenkinson playing all of the parts, it's safe to say he has come a long way since Port Rhombus EP, his crystalline drum & bass debut for the label in 1996.

Kammerkonzert displays Jenkinson's strength not only as a producer but as a composer, shown by the album's mercurial juxtapositions which can fleetingly remind the listener of the visionary French Zeuhl band Magma 9 ('K1 Advance'), the liquid fusion of Weather Report in their Body Electric phase ('K2 Central'), and the baroque blood-drenched giallo soundtracks of Ennio Morricone ('K7 Museum'). Elsewhere the more contemporary north London jazz riffing of Sons of Kemet ('K3 Diligence'), the ring-modulated piano of Stockhausen's Mantra and even the atmosphere of Brian Eno's ambient work with David Bowie ('K11 Tideway') all make themselves felt.

Kammerkonzert – whose tough-sounding name reflects the sonic militancy of the music it presents, while literally meaning chamber concert in German – pushes mischievously inward at the extreme boundaries of music composition itself.

ALBUM TRACKLIST:

K1 Advance

K2 Central

K3 Diligence

K4 Fairlands

K5 Fremantle

K6 Headquarters

K7 Museum

K8 Park

K9 Reliance

K10 Terminus

K11 Tideway

K12 Uplands

K13 Vigilant

K14 Welbeck

ARTIST LINKS: www.squarepusher.net