{"id":38964,"date":"2015-08-25T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=38964"},"modified":"2015-08-25T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T12:53:52","slug":"face-ab-beatrice-dillon-where-to-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=38964","title":{"rendered":"Face A\/B. Beatrice Dillon. Where To Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Where To Now? records are proud to present Beatrice Dillon\u2019s follow up release to the widely well received \u2018Blues Dances\u2019. This three track 12\u201d sees Beatrice step things up a gear in terms of intricacy, experimenting wildly to add to her already astute palette of timbre and rhythm.<\/p>\n

\u2018Face A\u2019 leads the record with the unmistakable skronk of saxophone cutting and jamming over the skeletal pulse of Beatrice\u2019s signature dubbed out techno landscape. Initially the inclusion of saxophone acts as an aural abstraction or diversion to extract a little freedom from the pumping cavern of dark dub techno atmosphere punctuated with the mechanical juddering saw-bass, but as the piece develops and we become deep into the groove the inclusion of wild sax snorts trips us up and become the focus itself as new levels of complex melodic and rhythmic detail become apparent within this otherwise structurally obedient space. Taking it\u2019s cues from Rabih Beaini, Miles Davis \u2018Big Fun\u2019 era, Dresvn and Keith Hudson, undoubtably \u2018Face A\u2019 is a compelling, complex trip\u2026 heads down but arms flailing.<\/p>\n

\u2018Face B\u2019 continues the theme but takes the listener far deeper into the cavern. Here the concern is more the effects of space within song, a moment where Beatrice allows herself to move away from the floor to find a little more room for playful experimentation. The saxophone is further treated with a plethora of effects to compliment the array of dub signals that scatter and skip around the basin.<\/p>\n

The record closes with \u2018Sonnier (Walk in the light)\u2019 which strangely somehow manages to feel jazzier in its components, even in comparison to a pair of tracks riffing on a manipulated free-jazz sax part. It sounds strangely unsure of its world, adding to this whole loosely slung, loping feel which somehow fits amongst the stern, brooding, and efficient synth play. Beatrice masterfully manages to create a piece here that grows in intensity without ever increasing in pace or texture, every drop is intended to stir the listener a little more than the last. There\u2019s a sense throughout all the pieces of having rhythm imposed or even inflicted upon the listener but this is certainly not a conflict of ideas\u2026 there is optimism, harmony and above all – wild groove nestled within Beatrice\u2019s world of mutant shuffle.
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\nreleases 21 August 2015<\/p>\n

Written and produced by Beatrice Dillon, tenor saxophone on \u2018Face A\/B\u2019 by Verity Susman.
\nMastered by Rupert Clervaux at Grays Inn Road.
\nSleeve drawing Sam Porritt, ‘We’re tripping myself up\u2019, 2012, ink on paper, courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n

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  Where To Now? records are proud to present Beatrice Dillon\u2019s follow up release to the widely well received \u2018Blues Dances\u2019. This three track 12\u201d sees Beatrice step things up a gear in terms of intricacy, experimenting wildly to add to her already astute palette of timbre and rhythm. \u2018Face A\u2019 leads the record with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4774],"tags":[4775,3019,4756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38968,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964\/revisions\/38968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}