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Instability of the Signal

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  1. Barefeet
  2.  Turning Slowly
  3.  She Lowers Her Arms
  4.  I Can’t Hear Anything
  5.  Thrashing It Out
  6.  Fishscales
  7.  Boymanduet
  8.  Toast
  9.  Democracy
  10.  Tape Ends
  11.  The “Special Relationship”
  12.  Purr
  13.  Bless Your Hands (Part 1 and 2)
     

Simon Fisher Turner

Instability of the Signal

Mute
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    Released: 9th Aug 2024

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With a career that's darted from boyhood pop extravagance to Derek Jarman film scores, Fisher Turner has surprised and provoked at each step.

'Instability of the Signal' is no different with its fascinating slivers of sound and semi-improvised lyrical poetics forming a charming and inquisitive soundscape worthy of multiple visitations. This 13-track album is an intricate exploration of sound, inspired by the creative minds of Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatic, and poet, Harold Pinter, whose verses, 'Democracy' and 'The Special Relationship’, feature on the record. It pulls together four strands of Fisher Turner's sonic experimentation, which he identifies as Slivers, Sounds, Strings, and Singing. The 'slivers' are tiny snippets of audio he used as source material for the tracks, all originally created by Salford Electronics (aka David Padbury), and reworked by Fisher Turner into foundations for entire tracks. The record also includes beautiful string arrangements by the Elysian Collective, who have toured with Pulp and feature on the latest releases from The Last Dinner Party and Pet Shop Boys.

Like Fisher Turner's long and varied career, Instability of The Signal is an accumulation of experience, effervescent memories, sounds and textures. It contains hidden learnings. It is about how restorative singing of ourselves and to ourselves can be but is also a document of times and places delivered in beautifully impressionistic palettes of sounds and voices. It is also another document of Fisher Turner's remarkable life and unshakeable curiosity about sound.