Hawksmoor – Oneironautics

Description

Hawksmoor’s new album ‘Oneironautic’ on Soul Jazz
Records follows on from last year’s critically acclaimed
‘Telepathic Heights’, as well as a re-release of his
album ‘Saturnalia’ on the Library of the Occult label
earlier this year.

James McKeown, aka Hawksmoor, continues his
fascination with the sounds and sensibilities of 1970s /
80s German electronic groups – think early Cluster,
Harmonia, CAN, NEU!, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and
Michael Rother.

On new album ‘Oneironautic’, James McKeown
successfully combines these pulsating ripples of
Germanic electronica with a number of decidedly
English references: the soaring, hypnotic and pastoral
qualities of Brian Eno, circa ‘Another Green World’; the
long, sustained lines of Robert Fripp’s Frippertonics;
and the poetic feel of early Durutti Column.

McKeown combines all of these elements while also
remaining with one foot firmly in the British melodic
hauntological modular synth aesthetic of hauntology –
Ghost Box, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Focus Group et al.

Once again using strictly modular synths, electronic
drum rhythms, and guitars, Hawksmoor has created an
electronic landscaped music world that is both new
and old, immediately identifiable and yet utterly unique.