“\u2018Workaround\u2019 is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music\u2019s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity. Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, \u2018Workaround\u2019 renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo.<\/p>\n
Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band\u2019s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth\/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyat\u00e9 (Kora), Hemlock\u2019s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play. \u2018Workaround\u2019 evolves Dillon\u2019s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album\u2019s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse\u2019s book \u2018Finite And Infinite Games\u2019 to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley\u2019s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon\u2019s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system. With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon\u2019s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5\/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong\/light, sudden\/restrained, and bound\/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album\u2019s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra\u2019s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in \u2018Workaround Two\u2019, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album\u2019s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork\u2019s seminal \u2018Basic G\u2019, or Rian Treanor\u2019s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy. Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music\u2019s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo.<\/p>\n
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