James Devane - Beauty is Useless

uMEBOSHI

£25.90

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: uME1
Barcode: 4250101432453
Release Date: 30 Sep 2022
Genre: Electronic/Ambient

Though Beauty is Useless is only his second solo record, James Devane has been producing and performing music for over two decades, both in isolation and collaboratively (most notably as his duo "En" with Maxwell August Croy).

While his first record (s/t on Bremsstrahlung) explored digital manipulation of guitar based loops, Beauty finds Devane replacing the computer processing and aural landscape projection for a couple vintage keyboards, modular based effects and most notably a drum machine.

Evoking elements of German minimal techno, Beauty is a rich, focused discovery of process and restraint where less is refreshingly more.

Tracklisting
A1 James Devane In Your Time 00:04:54
A2 James Devane Can't Be Here 00:04:20
A3 James Devane Sudden Oak Death 00:03:22
A4 James Devane Somatic Marker 00:05:45
B1 James Devane Orange and Tan 00:04:00
B2 James Devane Bygone Trouble 00:04:33
B3 James Devane Fences In 00:03:56
B4 James Devane Beauty is Useless 00:05:07
B5 James Devane Operationes Spirituales 00:04:51