Just Music have released the second volume in their Ambient Zone series. This one features music from twelve artists associated with the Just music label including Marconi Union, Jon Hopkins and Digitonal. Read more here.
MU recently provided the soundtrack for A Distant Light a new installation that has been installed on Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, London. A Distant Light is a louvred disc nearly ten metres wide on which images from space are displayed. MU’s soundtrack is being constantly streamed from the Selfridges website to enable viewers to simultaneously listen on headphones.
A Distant Light was designed by Artisan a creative studio that has a long history of stage design and installations. The idea being that it could work as an astronomical clock, inspired by our ability to measure time by observing light from distant stars.
MU will be taking part in this years Audioscope Festival which will take place at The Bullingdon, Oxford on November 21st. The one day festival features artists such as Plaid, Gazelle Twin and Part Chimp and aims to raise money for the housing charity, Shelter.
All our stock of the Departures cassette have now sold out, however they are still available to buy at Chemical Tapes.
Downloads are still available from here.
Departures is a new and extremely limited cassette release from Marconi Union, our friends at Chemical Tapes have pressed up just 50 copies (although, it is also available as a download here). Each cassette is produced with the normal Chemical Tapes commitment to quality and are all hand stamped.
*Please note* quantities of the cassette are strictly limited to 50 and there are no plans to repress once they are sold.
For the past few months MU have been working in partnership with American software engineer Raleigh Green and the Marina Abramovic Institute to create an online installation.
The result of these efforts is Weightless / Endless, which at the moment can be found on the homepage of the MAI website. Here’s a helpful clue, try clicking at the centre of the star…
There is also an in depth interview with MU and Raleigh on the MAI site which explains the thinking behind Weightless / Endless as a durational piece of work.
Marconi Union are pleased to announce that their album Weightless ( Ambient Transmissions Vol.2) will be released on CD and digital formats, through Just Music on 22nd September 2014.
Read more here
Marconi Union will be closing Saturday night at Deer Shed Festival
The making of Anomic took place over a period of two years. MU had crossed paths with John a number of times and after a while talk had turned to the idea of making a record together, but it actually took quite a while to get started on it.
We had a very clear idea about what we wanted the album to reflect. We were keen to make an “ambient” album that had some grit, the sort of music that might make you think about the wrong side of town. At the same time, we didn’t want to make it doomy and grim.
On 24/06/2013, 30 Hertz will be releasing, Anomic a full length album recorded by Jah Wobble and Marconi Union.
Further information to follow.