{"id":20476,"date":"2022-11-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20476"},"modified":"2022-11-14T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:03:23","slug":"james-johnston-steve-gullick-everybodys-sunset-god-unknown-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20476","title":{"rendered":"James Johnston & Steve Gullick – \u2018Everybody\u2019s Sunset\u2019 (God Unknown records)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photographer Steve Gullick and musician-artist James Johnston join forces for a boundary-pushing dive into a world of soundscapes that won’t come as a massive surprise to fans of either work. The pair first met in 1991 and formed the Bender, but it was much later that they decided to work on some experimental music.\u00a0‘Everybody’s Sunset’<\/em>\u00a0is the second album released under their own names and follows on from 2021’s\u00a0‘We Travel Time’<\/em>. The pair throw in a melting pot of violin, organ, guitar, banjo, autoharp, harmonica, piano, synthesisers to create a mostly instrumental soundscape that is both warm and cold yet distant and claustrophobically intense and generally headfuckin experimental post-rock.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experimental, avant-garde and all the other cliches you can throw at them but these guys are pushing the envelope of the outer reaches of a genre not contained in the tight confines that we usually like to put our music in. I admit right here I’m a massive fan of Johnston be it his solo work and Gallon Drunk this is well outside of my comfort zone. One of my favourite albums is David Sylvian’s ‘Secrets Of The Beehive’ and this is way outside most of Sylvian’s soundscape work so fans of that would be able to picture where I’m at. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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