Chris Carter - Chemistry Lessons (Vol 1) on CD

Description

Seventeen years on from his last solo release, the twenty-five tracks collected on Chris Carter's Chemistry Lessons Volume One (CCCL Volume 1) were the product of six years spent working on solo material in the Norfolk home studio he shares with Cosey Fanni Tutti. CCCL Volume 1 reinforces Carter's significant but often under-appreciated role in the development of electronic music - a journey that for Carter started ahead of his work with Throbbing Gristle (alongside Cosey, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge), and continued through Chris & Cosey, Carter Tutti, Carter Tutti Void as well as his own solo and collaborative releases under his own name. Here you will find music with a distinctly futuristic leaning, with insistent melodic patterns and a distinct sense of wonderment at the limitless possibilities of science. "If there's an influence on the album, it's definitely '60s radiophonic," Carter agrees. "Over the last few years I've also been listening to old English folk music, almost like a guilty pleasure, and so some of tracks on the album hark back to an almost ingrained DNA we have for those kinds of melodies. They're not dissimilar to nursery rhymes in some ways." Despite having been worked on over an extended period between various artistic projects in a variety of different moods, situations and circumstances, CCCL Volume 1's experiments never feel like Carter noodling around aimlessly in his studio-laboratory. Instead there is an inner coherence and a distinctively Chris Carter approach to sound and execution. It's an endeavour that places CCCL Volume 1 comfortably alongside everything else that this sonic scientist has been involved in, and yet one that showcases a restless, questing creative spirit forever scouting for new ideas.

TRACKS

1. Blissters - Chris Carter
2. Tangerines - Chris Carter
3. Nineteen - Chris Carter
4. Cernubicua - Chris Carter
5. Pillars Of Wah - Chris Carter
6. Modularity - Chris Carter
7. Field Depth - Chris Carter
8. Moon Two - Chris Carter
9. Durlin - Chris Carter
10. Corbus - Chris Carter
11. Tones Map - Chris Carter
12. Dust & Spiders - Chris Carter
13. Gradients - Chris Carter
14. Lab Test - Chris Carter
15. Shildreke - Chris Carter
16. Uysring - Chris Carter
17. Ghosting - Chris Carter
18. Noise Floor - Chris Carter
19. Post Industrial - Chris Carter
20. Rehndim - Chris Carter
21. Roane - Chris Carter
22. Time Curious Glows - Chris Carter
23. Ars Vetus - Chris Carter
24. Hobbs End - Chris Carter
25. Inkstain - Chris Carter