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Thursday January 5th, 2023 with Joe Reilly
We talk to Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) about four albums of new music he released in 2022

Today we reconnect with Robin Rimbaud - an artist from England who records electronic music under the name Scanner. He is a very busy and diverse artist as reflected in the four albums of new material he released in 2022. That is the focus of the program today, but you may also be interested to know that Scanner has a subscription service/fan club through Bandcamp. If you subscribe you get access to a lot of great archived material from Scanner's catalogue of work and you get monthly releases of "new"/old work that he has polished up to share with his subscribers. I highly recommend it if you're a fan of this kind of music. https://scanner.bandcamp.com/community We start with the album The Homeland of Electricity and Robin tells us how this truly "solo" album was partly inspired by the work of Ukrainian film director Laris Sheptiko. https://din7d.bandcamp.com/album/the-homeland-of-electricity-din72 Then we talk about an amazing project that Robin got involved with called Listening Forest. He created music for a massive, outdoor installation in a forest in Bentonville, Arkansas at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The installation was created by Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (who now lives in Montreal!) You have to see this to believe it so check out the links below and enjoy the sensational music from the installation. https://crystalbridges.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iu9Vkh6Oos https://scanner.bandcamp.com/album/listening-forest Next we talk about an album that Scanner put together with Polish composer Olga Wojciechowska (who records under the name Strië), called Struktura Revisited. Robin explains how he and Olga worked to reissue her popular album with Scanner doing a re-interpretation of each piece. You can compare the pieces on the album, which is available here. As Robin explains he plays with the titles of the pieces as well. https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/struktura-revisited Finally, we talk about the album Loess which Robin produced with Frans De Waard (Modelbau.) This album grew out of the discovery that they both owned Fostex 280 four-track tape machines so they created this musical conversation, where works were recorded in isolation, Rimbaud in the UK, De Waard in The Netherlands and France. The cassette tapes were then exchanged using the mail service and subsequently worked on by the other artist. Neither could anticipate how the other might respond and thus Loess was born. https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/loess-2 A lot of musical ground is covered on the show today. Feel free to explore more of this amazing music using the links provided here. Take care. I hope you have a great 2023. And remember to support independent music in any way that you can.