Brightly Coloured Pencils (Ben McDonnell Remix)

A 2 track leftfield/idm single (3m 38s) — released November 9th 2021 on Algebra Records

Multidisciplinary artist Ben McDonnell provides the seventh in a series of eight remixes of 'Flung Further', a remix album of Emma-Kate Matthews' 2020 'Far Flung' EP. His take on 'Brightly Coloured Pencils' pushes further into the experimental sound design of the original before spinning off into a psychedelic guitar solo.

Ben has a background in jazz performance and composition as well as photography. Ben's work uses photography, sound and sculpture to raise questions around stability, support and structure, drawing inspiration from sound, music and the built environment. Ben and Emma-Kate have previously collaborated musically on his project Modest Proposals, performed at JEMP Mechanical, a Polish experimental music festival, in 2019.

Emma-Kate Matthews is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, composer and architect and released the Far Flung EP on Algebra Records at the end of 2020 as a series of limited edition transparent lathe cut 12"s with handmade textile artwork and audio-reactive visuals. Far Flung is a complex collage of dance floor adjacent electronica that gets you thinking and moving.

Each remix includes new video art by Emma-Kate.

The Far Flung EP explores the contrasting styles of synthesised versus acoustic sounds, field recordings versus musical motifs and digital versus analogue techniques for producing and manipulating sounds. Eerie drones are interwoven with complex upbeat rhythms, deep layered harmonies and erratic melodies to form an elastic sonic fabric which oscillates between moments of lightweight sonic ambiguity and highly-charged musical statements.

The remixes are being released once per week until the album is released in full on the 8th of December 2021 with remixes from Julia-Sophie, Casually Here, Dampé, Eye Measure, Sunplus, Heavenly Stemsl and Emma-Kate Matthews herself.

Casually Here's label Algebra has turned itself into a hub for forward-thinking electronics. - Robin Murray Clash Magazine

Algebra are releasing some really lovely stuff and there's an ep that came out at the end of last year from Emma-Kate Matthews called Far Flung that I loved - Orlando Weeks BBC 6 Music

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