Plans Drawn In Pencil
Morr Music
ELECTRONIC
ROBIN SAVILL and ANTHONY RYAN's releases as ISAN are characterized by simple rhythms, pop-inflected song structures, and strong, committedly analog melodies.
Originally from Reading, England, the duo emerged from the electronica underground in the mid-'90s, at a time when groups like AUTECHRE and APHEX were bringing increasing levels of abstraction and disjunction to electronic post-techno. Dodging that approach, Isan joined artists such as B.FLEISHMANN, BOARDS OF CANADA and Krautrock-electronica fusionists TO ROCCOCO ROT in making their music warm, inviting, and accessible. Like many of those artists, Isan (perhaps inadvertently) draw on the '70s and '80s electronic experiments of JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, early new wave, and "Another Green World"-era BRIAN ENO.
With this their fourth album, 'Plans Drawn In Pencil' they were concerned with nothing but sounds. They sent them back and forth, in a ping-pong manner between their homes in England. They layered soundtracks on top of the other, activated filters, went through synthesizers and systems (analogue and digital ones) looking for sounds. Two artists and their machines. "Sometimes there is a melody in your head first, the other time you find it in a synthesizer. You find it in dialogue with the equipment", says Robin. "Sometimes I had to teach my machines to generate the melody" says Anthony. Their music is about making difficult sounds easy to listen to. i.e. the thin line between conceptual serious music & pop, between minimal & melody.
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Look And Yes
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Cinnabar
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Yttrium
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Roadrunner
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Ship
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Immoral Architecture
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Amber Button
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Five To Four Ten To Eleven
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Conundrum
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Atickland
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Seven Mile Marker
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Working In Dust
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Ruined Feathers
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