Using software synths designed by Rian Treanor and Mark Fell, visually impaired pensioners Anne Goss (75), Kathleen Allott (74) and Mick Gladwin (65) aka Rotherham Sight & Sound, have made what for them is truly liberating music. They've been practising for a while and now Action Potential is out on Treanor's label, Electronic Music Club. They even played Cafe Oto (see clip below), but don't hold that against them for this is no hipster project.
Worthiness (in the best sense) aside, what they've created is a joyous selection of seven tracks, comparable to Autechre, if they were really 'free' - ha-ha. An atmosphere of play pervades, like the best Improv, minus the studious 'intellectual' attitude. Hold has a 'Ragga' feel and consistent rhythms frequently come into play, but elsewhere they cut loose, as on When It Ends and the following 30 Seconds, the latter sounding like the best early electronic 'space music'. The way the last track, 1 Dial, drops off into a percussive black hole is fantastic.
'Freedom to do what we want'...
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