Inner Demons Records is a label that through the years got several recurrent artists in their roster. That this leads to friendships and recognition is not a surprise; There are a lot of labels or communities where you see this happen. But with the mutual respect and recognition also come collaborations which you might not have held for possible or even viable. So what do you do? You try it out and thank Gawd Jon and Dan did.
Jon Watkins I’ve written about a few times before and he uses mainly his guitar to create music, and FAIL, well, that’s the brainchild of label-owner Dan Fox. And FAIL is noise in all its facets which you will read about soon again in VW. But Jon and Dan almost couldn’t be further apart from each other and yet, still they tried this collaboration entitled “Reflections on Art and A.I.”. Two 9 minute tracks with Jon doing guitar sounds where it seems untreated on the first and more manipulated on the second. And there is some chemistry / synergy going on here for sure.
“We Were Warned…” has a lush feeling with some fingerpicking and minimal chards and in the background heavily manipulated samples and sounds creating an uneasy feeling. Towards the end it gets more chaotic when Dan’s layers are pushed into the front. Opening the canvas for “…And Now is Too Late”. This track has a definite ‘end-of-the-world’ angst feeling. Less coherent, chaos, feedbacking guitars and solos that aren’t solos in any way anybody ever thought they should be. And with A.I. and all the bots, it’s too late. Seen the gazillion shit postings in your favourite social media? Too late for sure.
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