{"title":"Dalhous","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDalhous is an electronic project hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Originally formed in 2012 by recording artist Marc Dall and long-term collaborator Alex Ander, Dalhous transitioned into a solo endeavor for Marc Dall after Alex Ander's departure in late 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey made their debut on Blackest Ever Black with the \"Mitchell Heisman\" EP and have since released three studio albums as part of \"The Composite Moods Collection\": \"An Ambassador For Laing\" (2013), \"Will To Be Well\" (2014), and their latest offering, \"House Number 44\" (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by artists such as Anthony Linell, Född Död, and Croatian Amor among others, Dalhous creates captivating electronic music that pushes boundaries and explores various moods. With their unique soundscapes and experimental approach to composition, Dalhous continues to captivate listeners worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-composite-moods-collection-vol-2-point-blank-range","title":"The Composite Moods Collection Vol.2: Point Blank Range","description":"\u003cp\u003eDalhous end the 5-year silence with the long awaited follow up to 2016's House Number 44, presenting the second volume of The Composite Moods Collection. \u003ci\u003ePoint Blank Range\u003c\/i\u003e reinterprets the established narrative with an inverse look at the proceedings. Taking the “point of view of the disease\"\", the perspective is now turned inside out, revealing an alternate account from the eyes of the photographed subject of House Number 44. If Vol.1 was a documented presentation of another person's condition, Vol.2 takes the listener behind the facade. From the outset, the album offers a narratively uncooperative stance, weaving together layers of anxiety and painful specificity that often overtly manifests the psychotic protagonist's stormy interior state. Listeners will be able to decipher nods to long standing soundtrack influences from composers such asFabio Frizzi, with his use of strikingly bold and haunting melodies, to Tangerine Dream’s distinctively foggy atmospheres of The Keep.There are moments that evoke the nihilistic drones of Brian Gascoigne’s soundtrack to Phase IV, and the more horrific passages of metal clanging ambience from the likes of Chu Ishikawa with his scores for Shinya Tsukamoto. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Denovali","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50417383375179,"sku":"1117793","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7f1b5ba3-9bb8-4e98-ac07-5f2e32f195ce_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726728082"},{"product_id":"an-ambassador-for-laing","title":"an ambassador for laing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Edinburgh-based duo of Marc Dall and Alex Ander work with intricately stacked percussion, dubwise bass and a rich harmonic tapestry of processed voices, keys, harp, vibraphone, guitar, woodwind, strings and synthesiser - every sound re-sampled to the nth degree then subjected to subtle automation and rigorously fine-tuned over a period of many months. From the mesmerised pastoral drift of 'Anger Sees Red' and 'Dwelling By The Meadow' to agitated arabesques like 'The Physical Body' and the self-titled 'Dalhous', the resulting pieces explore dreamlike but treacherous terrain. Eleven questions in a world of blue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50491348418891,"sku":"361896","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7452c6f9-8749-4168-b458-d2dbbb5e6913_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727685848"},{"product_id":"visability-is-a-trap","title":"Visability Is A Trap","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Visibility Is A Trap' is the new EP by Dalhous, comprised of four originals together with a masterfully understated Regis remix of 'He Was Human And Belonged With Humans'. The EP heralds the arrival of the Edinburgh-based project's sophomore album, 'Will To Be Well', due out on Blackest Ever Black in early Summer 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackest Ever Black","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50491898822987,"sku":"373295","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3296ccad-1771-4e9e-b944-e968c27c3a70_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727689737"},{"product_id":"the-composite-moods-collection-vol-1-house-number-44","title":"The Composite Moods Collection Vol 1: House Number 44","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst volume of The Composite Moods Collection, a new cycle of Dalhous recordings that examines the relationship between two individuals co-habiting in the same confined space - their interactions, their sense of self and of each other, and the pregnant space between. One of these people, the protagonist (if you like) of House Number 44, is, or at least believes themselves to be, in fine mental health. The other appears distinctly unwell - detached, isolated, often feeling helpless and unable to influence the world around them; at other times prone to committing acts of extraordinary aggression and manipulation. The title of The Composite Moods Collection nods to the world of film and library cues, riffing on the utilitarian idea of music \"to suit the mood\" and the appealing if archaic notion that a \"mood\" can be a discrete or fixed thing, a unit of feeling. Dalhous's Marc Dall takes this notion and runs with it: he attempts to convey a bipolarity of mood, each movement contradicting or erasing what came before, making progress impossible. An illness that underpins and sabotages every thought. And so, while a finely crafted and very deliberate narrative connects each cue to the next, it is not a smooth or a linear path. On the contrary it is jarring, complex, subject to severe and sudden modulations; one step forward, two steps back. House Number 44 is also about artistic license: about the liberties an artist takes when representing another person in any medium, and more fundamentally, the \"artistic\" liberties all of us take in the construction of our own self-image, and in our day-to-day perception of others. Though Dalhous's R.D. Laing trilogy - An Ambassador For Laing (2013), Visibility Is A Trap (2014) and Will To Be Well (2014) - is now complete, Laing remains a spectral presence in their work, and The Composite Moods Collection ultimately cleaves closely to recurring Dalhous themes of identity, behavioural modification, and self-help. Longtime followers of Dalhous will observe that House Number 44 contains some of their sparsest, most malevolent-sounding work to date (see especially the brooding synthesizer throb of 'Response To Stimuli' and 'End Of Each Analysis') but some of their most disarmingly beautiful too, with indelible melodies and atmospheres as deep as thought: 'Methods of Élan', 'On A Level', the elegiac 'Lines To Border'. Dall's enduring affection for neo-noir film scores of the '80s and early '90s, with their gleaming electronics and submerged existential torment, is more palpable here than ever, and you may hear echoes too of Klaus Schulze, Pete Namlook, or Eno's The Shutov Assembly - but Dalhous continue to plot their own course, obsessively and meticulously, oblivious to contemporary trends and unconstrained by historical influence; driven, indeed, by their own demons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackest Ever Black","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50493984506187,"sku":"398536","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f8c783d6-e3c2-4ade-b1b4-2cb793ad084d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727702426"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_8d6abc30_thumbnail_4096_a13aa03b-cbf5-49b5-b2ff-dacfd0c0a190.jpg?v=1726728059","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/dalhous.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}