DUST LP

TRACKLISTING: 1 Dust, 2 Silent Glory, 3 47th Floor, 4 Apparition, 5 Far Far Light, 6 When The City Was Bare, 7 The Stars Behind The Light, 8 Intermissions, 9 1st Of July, 10 Look Around. LISTEN: https://soundcloud.com/glitterbug/sets/dust/s-gcna4 OVERVIEW: šIt™s not by chance that Dust is being released on Gold Panda™s label,› says Till Rohmann, aka Glitterbug. Following his 2012 LP Cancerboy  a breathtaking release dealing with the producer™s childhood battle with cancer - Rohmann returns with his fourth record, and first on Chelmsford-based producer™s NOTOWN Recordings. Dust is, he explains, a record in-part inspired by Derwin™s brilliant metropolis-evoking, travelling-influenced second LP, Half Of Where You Live. šIt picks up the pieces from that record™s celebration of modern urbanity and manmade things,› Rohmann says. šDust takes this notion a step further and explores the urban shadows of the forgotten, the stories of our cities that remain untold, past landscapes that evaporated and memories left behind over time. It™s about memories, traces of things and people that were, urban sub texts and long gone landscapes and the life that inhibited these places.› Glitterbug™s moniker comes from the Derek Jarman-directed film of the same name - a deeply personal work that spanned over two decades of the film maker™s life, with a soundtrack written by Brian Eno. A cinematic influence to his music is something ingrained within Rohmann, not least because his partner, Israeli visual artist Ronni Shendar, has been putting imagery to his music for more than a decade. šThere was certainly pictures running through my head when creating Dust,› Rohmann says. šIt™s hard to put that particular vision into words  but I guess I™d have become a writer if that were the case.› Glitterbug perhaps differs from one of his idols, Eno, in that it™s not the process that speaks to him loudest; instead it™s the challenge of imbuing the electronically put-together finished product with the most human touch possible. šI still remember being 16 and first hearing Meredith Monk™s Dolmen Music,› he recalls. šI started crying because I found music that touched me so deeply and that I felt so connected to.› Glitterbug now seeks the same, and in Dust™s mixture of light and dark textures, brisk motifs and weightier drones, he might just have achieved it.