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Lo Five - Geography Of The Abyss

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bostonfern73
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bostonfern73 Superb. Beautiful album. Favorite track: Continuous Album Part One.
davedave
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davedave I think this is likely my favourite album of the last few years by any artist. Can’t stop listening to it and get lost in it every time. Lo-five’s new method of working has paid off and then some; stunning, complex and transformative music. Thank you. This is up there with BoC, Music has the right to children for me… Favorite track: Falling Out Of A Hole.
Steve Binns
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Steve Binns Just love this album. The whole thing is just like a babbling brook of beautiful Electronica from start to finish. Life Without Fear in particular is compellingly good whilst remaining coolly understated. Just beautiful! Favorite track: Life Without Fear/The Self.
Sinister Pete
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Sinister Pete Super track. Lovely album. Playing it on X Minus One.
Favorite track: Neuroplastics.
Frazer Brown
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Frazer Brown Absolute class from start to finish - Skating the line between dusty MPC downtempo and 90's post rave chillout. Beautifully done. Favorite track: Primitive Joy.
ginodimeo
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ginodimeo I absolutely love this album. Every time I listen to it I hear something new – exquisite.
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M-Path (free) 04:58
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State Of Absorption (free) 05:47
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Primitive Joy (free) 05:48
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Knowledge Is Ignorance (free) 00:52
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Stream Entry (free) 05:23
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Children Four (free) 05:16
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Neuroplastics (free) 03:57
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Pain, Your Teacher (free) 06:02
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Falling Out Of A Hole (free) 05:44
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about

Originally released November 1, 2019.

Lo Five is the ambient electronic project of Wirral-based producer Neil Grant, who has in recent years been steadily crafting a range of melodic and rhythmic sounds that refuse to sit comfortably in the more established pigeon holes of the electronic music spectrum. Various detours into house, horror and hauntology combined with a fascination of the convergence of science and spirituality, memory, relationships and the subconscious mind have all lead to the fruition of his ideas on the forthcoming album, 'Geography of the Abyss’.

Lo Five’s second full length studio album ‘Geography of the Abyss’ is thematically a continuation of Neil Grant’s explorations into advanced states of consciousness and shifts in perception - viewed through the lens of family, memory and time - and augmented by self-inquiry practices such as vipassana meditation and Zen Buddhism.

Structurally it can be experienced as a single piece of music that forms an audio-visual narrative, following a first person perspective journey through uncharted tempestuous/serene inner landscapes - from a point of delusion to ultimate resolution:
awakening, anatta, non-self... whichever term you prefer.

The album came about after various creative detours, conceptual sonic experimentation and period of frustration with live performances - which were beginning to feel too restrictive and repetitive in nature. Neil flipped his usual creative process on its head and set about building a flexible hardware-based live rig that allowed for improvisation and a sense of reconnecting with ‘playing’ rather than ‘composing’.

This choice to work backwards from a live set rather than composing on a computer resulted in longer form meditative rhythmic jams that utilise a stripped-back palette of sounds and melodies, whilst retaining Lo Five’s evocation of performer and space using field recordings, samples and melodies. This production methodology - recording live sessions down to a master recording - also raised questions, as well as offering relief, from ideas of production ‘perfection’. Are human flaws and a loss of production mastery in exchange for a more intuitive, subconscious connection with music a worthy payoff? Only you can answer that - so sit back, switch off your mind, immerse yourself, lose yourself, then realise the truth of your subjective experience.

Neil is also founder of the Emotion Wave collective of musicians and visual artists, who are involved in a range of activities - events, releases, radio and print - which serve to highlight Merseyside's burgeoning pool of creative experimental electronic talent.

Castles in Space is extremely thrilled to be working with Neil on this outstanding electronic release.

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released December 10, 2020

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