Western Electric Sound System UK
Western Electric Sound System write narrative songs, often rooted in traditional forms, but set among soundscapes, atmospheres and textures. A love of filmscore has heavily influenced the musical output of WESS. Naturally inhabiting the outer margins and shadows, subverting the familiar, genre-bending and cultivating an improvisational approach to writing and recording... ... more
Western Electric Sound System recommends:
Se Dire Au Revoir
by Pieter Nooten
Sublime - completely bewitching music which will stop you in your tracks. Discovered Pieters music through mutual friend (our producer Stephen W Tayler)
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Goodbye To Language
by Daniel Lanois
This is not DL the world famous alchemist producer, this is DL the artist. Otherworldly immersive bliss.
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Love this band, call it Desert blues if you like, this is music forged in a different fire than we westerners are used to. Completely love the sounds, the rhythms and the soul of this album. Killer.
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