Label: Room40

田舎の環境で育った経験を音像化した音響的アンビエンス。ここRoom40からのみ音源を発表しているJ.WLSNと彼の親友Liam Keenanが共同で制作した、2026年7月の出版作[Country / The Country]。オーストラリア・シドニーの主要な美術館でキュレーターとして働きながら創作活動を行なっていたという二者が、アルバムタイトルの通りシドニー西部、ニューサウスウェールズといった、地方/田舎の環境で育った経験を、残響に満ちた音響に置き換えたノスタルジー録音。エンボス加工スリーブ、インサートカード付き。







Matte laminate, embossed and monochrome printed sleeve with insert card.

A note from J.WLSN.
In late 2024 my good friend Liam Keenan and I recorded a short session with our friend David Akerman at his studio Lost Sound in Marrickville. We had been working as art and music curators at a major art museum in Sydney, Australia. We both make music separately but had neglected making a record together for too long.

Country/ The County is the first of our combined love of all things longform, expansive, distorted and it is filled with reverberations. Built on subtle guitars, modular synth pads and sample-based loops, the record is us exploring our experience growing up in similar regional and rural settings.

The music represents parts of the country in Western Sydney and further west in regional NSW in Australia where we both grew up across different periods of time. These places are drifting plains, scowling mountains and at times, simply, rolling suburbia. The music is a score of sorts for these meshing places, a way of us decoding these shared geographies, outside of time. You could almost say, it's a music of place, out of time.