are you supposed to be in the wild [2022 Extended Edition], by Jo Montgomerie

are you supposed to be in the wild [2022 Extended Edition]

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Jo was posting piano studies to Instagram through Lockdown. Luke saw these and proposed turning them into a tape release. Jo told Luke that her first love was classical music. Jo sent Luke a demo and wondered if it was too noisy. Luke listened to it while out walking the dog and imagined the sound of the piano being processed into a rich mulch, zipping with fungal communication networks. Luke confused the low-register sounds on the track for an aeroplane flying overhead, and Jo noted the coincidence - she'd recently been on holiday to a spot near an RAF base, and had made a bunch of recordings, though she hadn't had chance to use them yet. "Must have been my inspiration". The piano melody gradually resurfaced from the mulch, resonant like the clanging of a church bell on a misty morning in a fantasy story.

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"I notice myself saying 'mulch' as a catch-all, an inverted synecdoche, the snails and slimes, the worms and the soil they create, the loam and the leaves half decomposed on their way to becoming that compost itself while lying atop and within it, all this is the mulch, and the creators of the mulch at once. The system that emerges from the decay of vegetation, of animals, and the animal, vegetable and fungal agents of that decay themselves, all together, with roles unfixed across time, all of them the mulch."

- Suze Huldt, "mulch"

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"Emergent sound artist and composer Jo Montgomerie plays to her roots in classical music with excellent, contrasting sides of infinite lift and more grounded solo piano, both very subtly woven with field recordings recalling Charlemagne Palestine and Keith Jarrett.

‘are you supposed to be in the wild’ is Jo’s debut for Profound Mystery, a new, Manchester-based label spawned during the pandemic. The two durational works diverge from Jo’s self-released drone and dark ambient works, issued over the past few years, into another strand of her practice, one intently focussed on hypnotic repetition and spectral nuance in a style that we’re keen to hear her explore further."

- boomkat review

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"He signalled to the curator, who thereupon flung open huge double doors of oak, to reveal a single enormous oil-painting, magnificently framed, standing like an icon in the middle of the room. It was painted in the half-naif, half-oriental style known as the Hav-Venetian, and I knew at once what it showed. It showed the House of the Chinese Master, in flames

'Our most noble public treasure, at its moment of supreme nobility.'
There stood the legendary building, ablaze on all its floors, swirled around by smoke, and all about it were charred and tumbled ruins. It alone was brilliantly illuminated, by its own lights, by the fires, by what seemed to be a shaft of sunlight - or moonlight? - penetrating the black smoke to throw its ancient silhouette into relief. It was like a shrine.

'We call this the Ark of Genius. As you know, the architect of the House remains unknown, but of course the reference is allegorical anyway. It is the genius of Hav itself that this room commemorates, defiant through thick and thin, stiff upper lip despite all.'

'Who painted the picture?' I asked.

'That is the final miracle. Nobody can know. It was found torn and crumpled on the person of Missakian the trumpeter, before his burial.'"

- Jan Morris, 𝘏𝘢𝘷

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released August 6, 2021

Jo Montgomerie - piano & processing

Illustrations & artwork by Anthony Hardman & Luke Healey

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"Trust neither maps nor books,
but grope your way over the rocks
towards the stinking pool
where jewelled fish once proposed
ambiguous prophecies"

- John Ash, 'Forgotten Orchestras'

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