Just as haiku are rooted in close observation of nature and the seasons, a time and a place – a tiny meditation that both seizes the moment and brings about a much wider understanding – so too are the improvised explorations and tape manipulations of Floating World Pictures.

Joined by a shifting cast of collaborators, they spin a sensuous, densely populated soundscape: bird song and flowing waterfall synths, a rainforest of hisses and a thrumming hive of life while in the distance the metallic snaps of drums conjure people working. The antidotal energy of nostalgia, of memories revisited and half-remembered, play out. Synth lines cascade whilst zipping overtones ping & reverberate with a lightness of touch – both moving and playful as in the Japanese environmental music of the 1980s; whilst passages through dark woods inhabited by wild overtones and syncopated rhythms hint at the telepathic textural trips of mid 90s UK ambient and leftfield electronic.

Written, mixed and produced by Chestnutt & Raimund Wong at Total Refreshment Centre in London, FWP's debut LP "The Twenty-three Views" is released spring 2022 via Bristol label Friendly Recordings. Chestnutt is a founding member of Snapped Ankles. Raimund is a sound artist but most recognised for his graphic work for International Anthem & Church of Sound. FWP celebrates a wider independent network through working with Alabaster DePlume, Akihide Monna (Bo Ningen), Cathy Eastburn (Southbank Gamelan Players), Charles Prest & Kamal Rasool (Flamingods), Clémentine March, & Danalogue (The Comet is Coming).