Thursday 19 September 2024, 7.30pm

Photo by Daria Shestakova

Dialect + Dylan Henner

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Dialect is the solo project of British musician and composer Andrew PM Hunt. Embracing an intuitive, collage-like approach to sound, Hunt assembles rich organic textures with evocative electro-acoustic environments, resulting in compositions that are both fragmented and deeply personal. Nurturing new gradients between improvisation and composition, Dialect navigates the realms of narrative and pure sensation, grounding his material by prioritizing emotional depth and resonance

Following a progression of concept-rich releases across almost a decade, Dialect marks a return to RVNG Intl. in 2024 with Atlas of Green, a work of speculative musical poetry melding a patchwork of scavenged relics and bygone hues through the shimmers of a mid-future in flux.

The album is in part the result of a burgeoning interest in the fantasy writing of Ursula K. Le Guin and Gene Wolfe, as well as the work of Italian philosopher Federico Campagna. On Atlas of Green Dialect elegantly molds unexacting details of memory and mistranslation, as the album imagines a young musician named Green working in a future era, where lost signals and enduring impulses are unearthed from the sediments of technology and time.

Previous releases include Advanced Myth, an expansive cosmos of unusual source synthesis and found sound, originally on the net imprint Tasty Morsels and reissued by RVNG and Warm Winters, Ltd. in 2022. Loose Blooms was released in 2017 on Dense Truth, a label run by fellow Wirral musician Forest Swords for whom Hunt plays saxophone in his live band. Hunt is also a member of the Liverpool-based minimalist quartet Ex-Easter Island Head, in which he plays and acts as producer.

Dylan Henner

Very little is known about Dylan Henner, who appeared on the experimental-ambient scene with his debut longplayer The Invention of the Human, released on AD93 in 2020 and immediately receiving a much-coveted place on BBC 6Music’s Albums Of The Year list.

Henner is not to keen on promoting himself on socials, instead choosing to communicate mostly through wondrously imaginative soundscapes and disarmingly poetic song titles (’The Sun Made the Sea Look Gold’, ’Children Were Climbing The Old Tree in the Park’, ’A Spring With The Remains Of A Fire’) and ditto visual artwork. His music comprises superbly constructed human-not-human soundscapes built from synthesized and processed voices and choirs, synthesis, marimba, and field recordings, all morphed into wide-ranging symphonies with moods ranging from serene and cerebral to alienated and desolate, referencing ambient and experimental music, sound design and filmscore.