Long Meadow Felt Company

by Phosphene (John Cavanagh)

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Luminous spots 05:27
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Chouchou 01:53
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Zoltan on the bridge 03:58
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Long Meadow Felt Company 03:47
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Cumulus 02:31
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Hoot navigation 02:58
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At the end of the day 05:30
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Curve of turbulence 08:16
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Huygens approach 04:08
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Earth over thunder 04:40
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Review from Broken Face magazine by Mats Gustaffson.

Phosphene is John Cavanagh's new creative project after four years as a member of the now defunct Scottish duo Electroscope.* It's quite difficult to pin down the mostly instrumental sound on “Long Meadow Felt Company” with mere words, but it's unquestionably a much more electronic effort than anything Electroscope ever released. That doesn't stop the end results from being eerily beautiful and, at times, even ominous. The wheezing keyboards invoke plaintive landscapes that drift around waves of sporadic, elegant acoustic instrumentation. At times the sparse melodies and quirky electronics seem to illustrate the most introspective of moods while at others the outcome is much more schizophrenic, visiting shadowy corners of a slowly revealing drone but combining them with odd pulses and bleeps. “Long Meadow Felt Company” is perfectly sequenced which makes the 43 minutes flow in and out of focus with stunning ease, and the ending is nearly perfect as the Galbraith-esque melancholia of “Earth Over Thunder” drips out of the headphones. With this release Cavanagh has made it perfectly clear that he's determined to continue widening his and his listeners' sonic horizons while combining the aesthetics of ambient music with electronic glitches and dark, ominous soundscapes into a gleaming panorama of sound.
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Review from Ptolemaic Terrascope by Phil McMullen.

Phosphene is John Cavanagh's new project (he of the sadly defunct Electroscope*). On 'Long Meadow Felt Company' the ambient tendencies of E'scope are fleshed out into something which approaches the levels of texture found in a Rimsky-Korsakov (with his colour/hearing synaesthesia), or a Debussy, the track 'Chouchou' being named after Claude's daughter. This aspect extends to the sleeve art, as the paintings are based on taste sensations! John's interest in arcana, modernist composers and the BBC Radiophonics Workshop (he recently interviewed Delia Derbyshire for his day job at Radio Scotland in between reading out the football scores!!) ensure this is a great new project and a very promising first record. Could it be the birth of a new genre named “synaesthetica”?!!
Look out for a more in-depth interview with Mr Cavanagh in a future edition of Terrascope.
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*Electroscope reformed and began performing/recording again from 2011 onwards.

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released October 1, 2001

All titles composed & performed by John Cavanagh (MCPS/PRS)
A Glo-Spot Sound recording produced by John Cavanagh.

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