Label: Alien Transistor – N 56
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: Nov 26, 2016
Genre: Rock
Style: Lo-Fi
Jam Money is the shared musical vision of Kevin Cormack and Mathew Fowler. Mathew (Bons) and Kevin (Half Cousin, Harry Deerness) first began collaborating as part of the Blank Tape Spillage Fete, an ongoing collective project of art and music which focuses on the creation and perpetuation of small DIY exhibitions, related events and limited releases that celebrates the hobbyist nature of home recording.
Jam Money revolves around a passion for the simple and sometimes restrictive nature of four-track cassette recording. Using old half-broken guitars, clarinets, charity shop keyboards, toys, family heirlooms, zithers, home-made percussion, and household objects a shared dialogue appears, involving both mark making and musical mishaps, allowing the makers to be carried along as the music finds its own way.
Genre definitions melt away in Jam Money’s music as ambient dissolves into lo-fi rock, noise into fragile, naive classroom melodies. Creativity beyond easy categorisation. The first recordings titled ‘Blowing Stones’ were self-released in 2014. The cover and insert artwork for this record featured abstract paintings by the artist Aime´e Henderson whose work and process is a great influence on their music.
Having played gigs alongside kindred spirits National Bedtime and Plinth, the tail end of 2015 saw the the band travel to Germany to play with the Notwist and Le Millipede for a series of ‘Alien Disko’ nights organised by Alien Transistor, a label with a shared kinship of both the weird and wonderful.
‘A Gathering Kind’ is the second album by Jam Money: a journey of sound and colour, subliminal images and narrative. The roots of this collection found Fowler and Cormack using an earthier, more instinctive language, making it a rougher-edged sibling to their other recordings, with parallels to the home-spun worlds of Flaming Tunes, Pumice, Maher Shalal Hash Baz and World Standard.
Aimée’s artwork features again, both paintings and music forming a collective language of dream-like adventure. Poignant and exploratory. Melting together acoustic and electronic elements, the narrative throughout is one of a ghostly world heading for winter.
A firm fan favourite Stephen Pastel (The Pastels & Monorail Music) on Blowing Stones: “Created in question and answer form, their songs exist like little sculptures – wayward and peaceful, sometimes whirring into automatic life under the pair’s combined attention.”
Tracklist
A1 Away Inside
A2 Thimble Theatre
A3 Games of Go
A4 Hail’s Roof
A5 A Gathering Kind
A6 Bubbled Other
A7 Konkapot
A8 Nutheran Reed
A9 Solar Broom
B1 Sounds Around
B2 Whorl & Spike
B3 Petaloid
B4 Comet Friends
B5 Milk River
B6 Magnus
B7 Hark’s Gate
B8 Turnstone Walk
B9 A Make Believe
B10 The Air Is A Root
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