Slow Lightning – Duncan Harrison & Ian Murphy

'Sometimes the old hands tell the truth. Cherry made it known some years ago that the cosmic hummus resonates. Bound by bread & blub High Wycombe Wullie (Harrison) & The Guildford Grouch (Murphy) took to Roedale Valley allotments some years back to sow the seeds for 'Slow Lightning'. Which is neither a split or a collab, but rather a love letter forged between close pals of the sonic ital. Let the Lion's gaze turn the weeds to stone!

Harrison shows his delicate hand with thin precision loops and strange little snapshots. Scuttering gadgets wheeze ominous scents into the faces of yelping robotic kittens and the dictaphone player in yr mind just keeps intoning “let the low tide tingle, fella!”

Murphy proves he is no recycled revenant with a brave and bold bowl of text-sound tit pickle. Huff the high fidelity and let tribute be paid to those voices as they have teachings. The loops and the breaks keep it simmering nice, while flabbergasted turntables press cheeks with prime Bohman-esque yabber. Like Don probably never said “Let the duck honk rasp yr brain, man! '

Dylan Nyoukis, October 2020

Mastered by Julian Tardo at Church Road Studio
Photography by Eddie Nuttall

Released Sham Repro

Duncan Harrison & Ian Murphy

Continuous collaboraters since 2008 now exploring lurid visions of cut up text and found sound disruption.

Frequently debunking their previous efforts, Harrison and Murphy confront the mystery via ramshackle experiments in surreal audio improv.

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