Dystopian air waves simmer with neon currents and fourth-world rhythmic cascades on U’s wild Life Isn’t A Fountain? Obscured origins only hint at the alternating moments of joy, darkness, ethereality, and euphoric mysticism. Constructed memory banks blur into familiar melodies that evoke certain emotions, but all of it is processed through a delicate prism. We’re dancing. We’re floating. We’re wasting away beneath a mountain of engrossing, stitched-together sound.
Life Isn’t A Fountain is out now on Lex Records.
1 – BROKEN PILLAR
Pillars represent long life, hence a memorial of a broken or unfinished pillar
means someone died so suddenly. It is the preferred markers for young people
who went too early, or victims of violent crimes. Tree stump symbolism are also
used in place of broken pillars, being also a symbol of life cut short.
2 – SWORD & PLOUGH
In February 1993, the Russian Federation and the United States signed a 20-year, government-to-government agreement for the conversion of 500 metric tons of Russian highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads to low-enriched uranium to fuel U.S. nuclear reactors. The agreement became known as the Megatons to Megawatts™ program. Over the life of the Megatons to Megawatts program, the low-enriched uranium produced under the agreement provided about one-third of the enrichment services needed to fabricate fuel for U.S. nuclear reactors.
3 – ECLIPSE
In the years leading up to the First World War, literary history was being made around the village of Dymock in the valley of the River Leadon.
Six poets were walking and talking, reading and writing here between May Hill in Gloucestershire and the Malvern Hills in Herefordshire.
4 – SILVER SHADOWS
One of Hi-Tec’s most famous releases came in the form of the Silver Shadow in 1981, a subdued grey running shoe with a strike of silver accenting the logo across the sidewall. Suede and mesh have always been present on each incarnation of the Silver Shadow, a tried and tested duo that have been used on some of the most successful runners of all time through every brand. Certifying its durability, the Silver Shadow was the standard issue training shoe used by the British Army up until recent years.
5 – DON’T BREAK MY HEART
This record was pressed by E.M.I.
Despite our explicit instructions that the
pressing should be dealt with by a small, independ-
ant pressing company, somewhere along the line
someone decided that in the intrests of higher
profit margins our instructions should be ignored.
We were told this on the planned release date, and
unfortunately the damage has now been done, and
E.M.I. have their profit.
Our reasons for not wanting any involvement
with E.M.I. are:
Their manufacture of weapons systems including
parts for Pershing, Cruise and Trident missiles.
This includes their many subsidiaries such as
Nuclear Enterprises, Systron Donner and Edcroft.
They are also involved in funding the Conserv-
ative Party, have a considerable involvement in
South African commerce, and have the audacity to
bring out the films Rambo and Ghandi in the same
breath.
It won’t happen again.
6 – HOLLOW EARTH
From 1981 for almost 20 years, Greenham Common became home to thousands of women acting in political resistance to the nuclear arms race, to patriarchy and violence in all its forms and to the claiming of British common land to store US missiles..
7 – NEW MOON
When I say I’ve been recording music about fairies, after the inevitable silence, there’s usually an awkward response somewhere between ridicule and revulsion. I guess that’s because the tiny winged fairies from 19th century children’s stories have won out over the weirder and wilder versions from folklore. There’s a wealth of folk tales and even contemporary accounts of the subject, but unlike ghosts, aliens and half-baked new age spirituality it’s usually only spoken of in the context of childhood or of mental health issues. Look at it directly and it’s not there at all, but the stories persist.
8 – FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
the form of the medium through which a message is conveyed is more important than the content of the message itself. In other words, the medium has a greater impact on human perception and behavior than the specific information it carries.
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