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A spiritual and emotive conversation across time and frequencies, J.Lynch has created an entrancing personal collage of sound. Peals of distortion melt hiss and loops, as haunting words swirl in and out of the ether. A portrait and a tone poem. A history uncovered, reimagined.
Favorite track: The Wanderer.
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High-quality cassette tape with A5, hand-numbered print on heavy stock textured card, and a full-colour magazine documenting the research that underpins the project. Part academic text, part humorous, touching tribute to the social and family ties upon which our lives are built, J.Lynch offers a fascinating glimpse into the conceptual and compositional process at work.
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‘the tender appropriation’ came about when Johny went to digitise an envelope containing cassettes of his late grandfather singing that had been sent to him by his uncle shortly before he too passed away. On hearing the tapes, Johny realised he had something more unusual than he thought. He found a documenting not only of concerts, but also home recordings of his grandfather’s repertoire of spirituals, and substantial footage of him speaking about them, and his views on their religious application and impact.
What follows is an attempt at a kind of collaboration. To appropriate his grandfather’s appropriation and try to make something else altogether, while also forming a kind of portrait of the man who provided the source material. Johny tries to level the hierarchies implicit in the tapes, affording hiss, warp and tiny moments of sound the same importance as the voice or text.
Things are pulled forcibly through modular synth, speech patterns used to create gates, tapes cut to pieces and rebuilt as loops as Johny tries to make something else, other compositions, divorced from their origins, but not entirely from their performer. We might find within something to do with appropriation, propriety, metaphysics, fervour, and sound. Or we might find something different, or nothing. There is text to accompany the music here, but the intention is to roll these themes around, and provide a story, rather than clarity.
Perhaps what this really is, is a material and emotional response to previously undisclosed discoveries of a departed relative, neither good, nor bad, but often strange or difficult to fathom. History, often leaves us with questions.
J.Lynch is the name for the electronic music of Johny Lamb. He is better known for his songwriting output under the name Thirty Pounds of Bone, which he has been releasing music as, with consistent critical praise, since 2006. In this guise he is able to explore further his ever-growing fascination with modular synthesis, tape, noise, and music that doesn’t necessarily fall under the popular music umbrella. To date, as J.Lynch he has released two EPs, an interpretation of a graphic score by American composer/musician Sarah Belle Reid, and a remix for DAAM’s ‘Brexshitting’ project.
Johny studied art at Dartington College of Arts and visual/performance art heavily informs his methods here. J.Lynch’s music falls awkwardly between electronica, concréte, electro-acoustic, kraut, and drone music with a particular interest in lower fidelities, distortion and haptic, gestural live playing rather than sequenced patterns. He is currently working on sound and noise for movement with Choreographer and dancer Kuldip Singh-Barmi. He lectures in Music at Falmouth University and lives in West Cornwall.
supported by 18 fans who also own “The tender appropriation”
Oozes cool. There's a lot I could write about this, just listen to it. Between the amazing Skyjelly tracks and the darker psychedelic Solilians offerings, this is a wonderful release. A really beautiful record. - Limnetic Villains Limnetic
A stellar compilation featuring shoegaze and indie favorites like Drowse, Midwife, and Mount Eerie benefitting Project Onward in Chicago. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2023
Less a solo act than a one-man megalith, Khôra builds impressive experimental soundscapes from modular synths, flutes, harps, and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 19, 2020
These two sprawling 20-minute electronic pieces offer both crackling, otherworldly textures and moments of surprising beauty. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 15, 2023
supported by 17 fans who also own “The tender appropriation”
This is brooding & menacing. It has a radio waves, broken transmission feel to. The featured machines haven't neccesarily taken over, but they're inescapable. Waiting. Watching. Especially love Fairway. It sounds like the ocean - but this is the waters swirling around Fang Rock, in the middle of the night. There's danger afoot. Beautiful stuff. knightd68