Oneironautics Hawksmoor

• 1 Parallelograms 06:44
• 2 The Transcendentalist 03:19
• 3 Glass Teeth 04:54
• 4 Galadali 02:22
• 5 Traumzeit 04:19
• 6 Salpêtrière 04:20
• 7 Nereides 03:57
• 8 A Forest In The Sky 04:27
• 9 Yourcelium 03:17
• 10 The Oneironaut 03:47
• Total Runtime 41:26

Info for Oneironautics

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 70s/80s German electronic groups – think early CLUSTER, HARMONIA, CAN, NEU!, HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS and MICHAEL ROTHER.

On this new album ‘Oneironautic’, he 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.

"This incredible new release follows a path along the electronic skyways first created by the German / Krautrock electronic pioneers of the 1970s such as Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel, Roedelius and Michael Rother." (Rough Trade)

"Stepping up the profile ladder to join Soul Jazz as one of the label’s exclusive cluster of non-archival signings – alongside Trees Speak and Brown Spirits – is Bristol-based James McKeown’s Hawksmoor project." (Concrete Islands)

"Telepathic Heights is his first album to be released by London's Soul Jazz Records, and both its packaging and content are reminiscent of the label’s essential Deutsche Elektronische Musik compilation series. McKeown evokes Krautrock and kosmische music from the 1970s, zoning in on the hypnotic qualities of his Moog Sub 37 and analog drum machines." (All Music Guide)

James McKeown aka Hawksmoor
is a British Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1961. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie 26 have featured James MacKeown's work in the past.James MacKeown's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 82 USD to 6,595 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 6,595 USD for THE BALCONY, sold at Whyte's in 2006. In MutualArt’s artist press archive, James MacKeown is featured in Colour in Art: A Brief History of Blue Pigment, a piece from BBC News in September 2019.

Musician James McKeown, better known in the heady electronic music world as Hawksmoor, has put out some of the most forward thinking and far out heavy synth albums in the last couple years. Albums like Methods Of Dreaming, On Prescription, as well as his collaboration with The Heartwood Institute Concrete Island have demonstrated McKeown’s knack for building these crystalline, retro-futuristic sonic palaces. Whole worlds with vintage synths, electric bass, and an overall feeling of finding some long lost album from the mid-70s that combines Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, and a Jodorowsky film score.

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