Janek Schaefer – Lay-by Lullaby

Label/Cat#: 12K US – 12K 1079
Year: 4 February, 2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 170 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental, Soundscape

Tracklist:
1. Radio 101 FM (05:25)
2. Radio 102 FM (03:47)
3. Radio 103 FM (05:26)
4. Radio 104 FM (06:59)
5. Radio 105 FM (07:50)
6. Radio 106 FM (08:11)
7. Radio 107 FM (06:46)
8. Radio 108 FM (04:52)
9. Radio 109 FM (05:54)
10. Radio 110 FM (05:36)
11. Radio 111 FM (03:39)
12. Radio 112 FM (09:10)

Quite easily our favourite 12k release for some time – an incredible blend of field recordings, found sounds and Janek’s signature manipulated transmissions, if you’re a fan of The Caretaker – this is an absolute must. “The composition is his calmest yet, and is based around location recordings made in the middle of the night above the M3 motorway, right at the end of the road where JG Ballard lived, a couple of miles from Schaefer’s studio on the far west edge of London. Ballard wrote his seminal works on car culture, as the motorway was being built past the front of his house in 1973; Crash (1973), Concrete Island (1974). The 73 minute album weaves these location recordings around a series of spacious sonorities, that shimmer with analogue textures and liminal melodies that burnout in the passing headlights. The speeding traffic dopplertrails reveal fleeting passages of soporific sounds that entice you to recline, drift and fade away. An album to enjoy with your eyes closed, on repeat play until the dawn rush hour returns… Lay-by Lullaby was created in 2013 as a sculptural installation for Schaefer’s solo London show ’Collecting Connections’ at the Agency gallery. A pair of reclining traffic speaker cones play back the foundsoundscape from a car radio installed in a little leather travel case on infinite loop.”