Kammerkonzert (Vinyl 2LP)

Three decades deep, Squarepusher offers up his 21st album Kammerkonzert. Tom Jenkinson’s catalogue has swung from the breakbeat chaos of Feed Me Weird Things to the exploratory jazz of Ultravisitor and with Kammerkonzert the rule‑breaker is going classical. Conceived as a chamber concerto and performed entirely by Jenkinson, you can expect an intense blend of riffs and orchestral motifs that only Squarepusher could pull off. Out April 10 on Warp, - Flying Out

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.

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. 

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