Photo BRAULIO LAM
Like many of us creative types, Byron Westbrook has spent this deeply strange year poring over his archives. Namely a batch of tape-bound synth takes — ecstatic pieces that get straight to the heart of how strange all this is.
“In revisiting this material and feeling its resonance with the moment,” explains Westbrook, “I immediately had clarity for how to complete the recordings as a whole record. I set to it, and the result is Distortion Hue.”
Due out on February 5th through the French label Hands In The Dark, the LP is loosely inspired by everything from Tony Conrad to Phill Niblock and rooted in the ragged not-quite-riffs of Westbrook’s heavily patched synthesizer.
Check out its choppy lead single below, and pre-order its limited vinyl pressing here, Bandcamp Friday style….
Distortion Hue
(Hands in the Dark, February 5th)
1. Point of Saturation
2. Ricochet Waves
3. Still Ringing Red
4. Tunnel Visioning
5. Heliocentricity
6. Electric Blued
7. Heavy Weather
8. Grey Canyon Echo
9. Refraction Haze
10. Yellow Horizon Line
