Latency announces new releases by Robert A.A. Lowe and Bellows; also, your dad says ‘Hi!’
Latency, a Paris-based label focusing on electronic music and record design, has announced a very fine duo of upcoming releases for April and May. First comes a suite of analogue dub-techno titled Kulthan by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. And second, we have Sander, an EP by Milanese duo Bellows (Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti).
Do you already know Lowe’s Lichens project? I hope not, because I’m about to tell you aaaaaall about it, kid-0. (That’s right, I’m your father. Ears open, OK? So, basically, son:) Lichens was a solo project built around the use of a straaaaange contraption called a “MIDI Sprout” that reads “bio signals” via “EEG pads” and converts them into “MIDI notes,” whatever the heck that means. I don’t know. I was born in 1950. Alongside the Sprout, Lowe also used his voice to build looped and layered drones (I’m not too sure…