Downtempo dub with: Wil Bolton – Patina
Let’s start the week quietly. Here’s Wil Bolton with the downtempo dubbed charms of Patina.
Wil Bolton is a composer, musician and artist based in East London. If that all sounds a bit arty that’s because it is. Wil’s sound and video works have been exhibited at ICA (UK), Sheffield Institute of Art and Design Gallery (UK), University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music (USA), Bath Spa University (UK) and others. And Patina has a sheen of soundscape installation about it.
Patina takes a slow thump of beats and some dubbed keyboards as its centrepiece. The accompanying blurb says “Minimal beats are constructed from thuds, clicks and crackles sampled from a vintage 7” record of heart sounds.” And when you know that you can sense the organic throb of sound.
Melodies are scattered on top with trickles of electronic sound. It’s dreamy but warmly otherworldly. For a quiet track it’s best listened to loud to allow the sound to properly occupy the space (or use headphones).
Make your Monday mellow with Wil Bolton. Nothing superficial here, just an entrance to another world.
Patina is taken from the album Null Point, out in February 2024.
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