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The Funnel

by Wojciech Rusin

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    Metallic Silver, blue on fluro orange hand screen printed sleeve with tip on artwork front and back. Original print by Oliver Pitt.

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Salvation 03:23
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Cyclops 03:37
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Fox Glove 01:35
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Dance 02:49
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Sacrifice 04:58
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Jupiter 03:20

about

The Funnel is the debut album by composer, instrument builder and artist Wojciech Rusin.

Combining field recordings from Port Talbot Steelworks, self built electro acoustic instruments and vocals drawn from alchemical texts and renaissance polyphony, The Funnel is chamber-musique-concrète for the wondering troubadour of the 21st century.

"Passport to an OBSCENELY DYNAMIC, contemplative dimension - “The Funnel” is a set of ancient imaginations in a stranglehold of electronics and steel factory atmosfears, originally composed for Radiophrenia by Wojciech Rusin and now gloriously pressed and presented by Glasgow based Akashic Records.

Equipped with some adapted instruments and occultist readings (decent dose of RATHER GLOOMY Greek-Egyptian philosophy in there too) Rusin composes and engineers an unpredictably celestial moving picture for the ear - the auto-tuned intro “Paolo’s Dream” and the bellowing baritones of “Salvation” diffusing into a solemn soul-purging of post-pythagorean(?) electro-organums.

“Transmutation” sounds like a petri dish of duplicating cells, contorted beauty with strings soaring like some sorta solar wind, the internalised ecstasy fading into the ambient clatter and percussion of “Cyclops”. The brain really scrambles trying to find points of reference - so we’ll shoot from the hip and go for some ridiculous meeting point between Księżyc’s “Rabbit Eclipse” and the more contemporary work of Pierre Bastien.

Side B offers further consuming, haunted chamber music - “Sacrifice” sounds like some possessed, hologram’d high priest drowning in a sea of sub-bass and gristly electronics before rounding up this destabilising noggin-scrambler with the near ten minute Open Music enchantment “Jupiter”.

- Low Company

"..a hugely enjoyable wigout with the weirdest of bedfellows'
-THE WIRE

"One of our favorite releases in recent memory. Another sturdy slap in the face of relentless re-issue culture"
- Mark Harwood, Penultimate Press

credits

released April 11, 2019

All music by Wojciech Rusin.
Additional vocals by Milo Brennan and Emmy Broughton.
Artwork and design and Print by Oliver Pitt.
Parts of The Funnel were originally commissioned by Barry Burns and Mark Vernon for Radiophrenia 2017.
℗ and © 2019 Akashic Records

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