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Sold outMinimal Compact's Malka Spigel and Wire's Colin Newman's minimal-techno-inspired Immersion, release their first new material under the Immersion name since the 90s.Visit product page →
A new five-track 10' limited to 500 copies called Analogue Creatures will see release in February on their Swim label .
The project between the two has been inactive since the release of 1999's Low Impact, with the new decade seeing Newman & Spigel refocus their attention to the song based structures of Newman's Wire, Spigel's solo works and their collaborative work as Githead alongside Robin Rimbaud/Scanner .
The duo decided to revive Immersion after a synth-based shopping trip in New York at the end of Wire's US tour earlier this year, eventually giving way to this new release from the pairing. 'It's all about analogue synthesisers and layering,' says Newman of the new release as well as Immersion's general focus. 'You begin with on part and then play on top of it, pass after pass, building up a track with loops of synthesiser and making an arrangement out of it. It's very organic: there's not a real sense of direction, it's just the shape it comes out. There was no guitar ever on early Immersion ' it was all synth.
That was how we started, but I had a strong feeling this time that we couldn't just repeat the same Immersion that we did a long time ago. I felt it should make a step forward and do something it hadn't done before, which is what it did with the guitars.'
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Always The Sea
2. Shapeshifters
3. Organic Cities
Side B:
4. Mechanical
5. Slow Light -
Immersion are Malka Spigel and Colin Newman. Although best known for their work with, respectively, Minimal Compact and Wire, the duo's work as Immersion provides an outlet for their ongoing fascination in crafting enthralling, unique musical soundscapes.Visit product page →
'Sleepless' is Immersion's latest album, a suite of ten distinctive, unpredictable instrumentals that effortlessly encapsulate a range of emotions and energies. It follows 2016's Analogue Creatures Living on An Island, which saw the duo return to the studio after a lengthy hiatus.
On release, the album received unanimous praise from reviewers:
'A collection of seductive instrumentals that's as sensual as it is hypnotic' (Drowned in Sound)
'Achieves a kind of hypnotic power' (Mojo)
'Full of infinite wonder.' (The Quietus)
Sleepless is at once a logical development from Analogue Creatures and a huge leap forwards. Although the influence of German krautrock pioneers like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh is still detectable, Immersion have evolved their own far more personal sound.
Their amalgam of fascinating textures and limpid melodies gives their compositions an irresistible appeal. While warmly percolating analogue synths remain at the heart of Immersion's sound, Sleepless finds their sonic palette broadened to encompass guitars, drums and bass.
There's a guest appearance from Matt Schulz of Holy Fuck, too, and a collaboration with Gil Luz and Asi Weitz of EBM band Hexenschuss.
For a duo who once titled an album Low Impact, this is most definitely Immersion in high-impact mode.
Tracklisting:
1. Microclimate
2. Off Grid
3. MS19
4. Sleepless
5. Propulsoid
6. Hovertron
7. The Humming Sea
8. Manic Toys
9. Seeing Is Believing
10. Io
Release Date: 13/07/2018 -
Visit product page →The duo of Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact and Colin Newman of Wire, Immersion is a true collaboration, with no delineation between who plays what.
Through the nineties Immer-sion released three acclaimed albums of expansive instrumental electronica.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Fireflys
2. Nanocluster
Side B:
3. Spinner
4. Living On An Island
