{"title":"Jo Johnson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"let-go-your-fear","title":"Let Go Your Fear","description":"\u003cp\u003eJo Johnson’s explorations in sound have ranged from free-form punk with Huggy Bear in the 90s, to underground techno in the 00s, and, for the last decade, deeply expressive electronic minimalism that pays tribute to the many women who pioneered this genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Let Go Your Fear is my second full-length album and probably my most raw and personal release so far. The three tracks on the album are extracts from a long, free improvisation on an early summer’s day and shared with you unedited and unadorned. I found the constraints of using a limited sound palette and tools helpful during the session and the level of focus needed for an extended improvisation induced a trance-like state. At the end we’re back where we started but nothing is the same. To name the album and track titles, I experimented with automatic writing. Like musical improvisation, automatic writing happens in real time and things move too fast for the ego, rules, conventions and logic to limit the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing ten years after my first album, Weaving, Let Go Your Fear is an invitation – an instruction to me – to drop the perfectionism and trust in the power of play. Life is short. Let’s go.\" - Jo Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Castles in Space","offers":[{"title":"White LP","offer_id":50455362928971,"sku":"2213245","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/04-Let-Go-Your-Fear-Cover-jpeg_ba2d8254_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727190679"},{"product_id":"alterations-volume-one","title":"Alterations Volume One","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis double album is the inaugural release on Jo Johnson’s Silver Threads label and compiles her ‘slow album’ – work created and shared (in a limited way) in real time from January until June, in response to “bleak and often distressing times”. Alongside each of the five album tracks compiled on CD 1, Jo created Remnants, reworks and original tracks from “discarded audio and coincidental field recordings” that were shared exclusively with her Bandcamp subscribers and these seven tracks are compiled on the second CD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlterations Volume One\u003c\/em\u003e was album of the week in Moonbuilding. In Futurism Restated, Philip Sherburne said it was, “A coherent and enveloping piece of work in which melodic motifs unfold against an ever-changing landscape of pads, drones, and arpeggios. It moves like a slow, broad river throwing off sparks at sunrise.” Electronic Sound said it was “spellbinding” and “never less than mesmerising” in the October issue and will feature an interview with Jo in the December 2025 issue. Surgeon said, “Beautiful restraint and Galactic emotions.” He called the final track, Unpicking, a “masterpiece”. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album comprises 12 tracks (one hour 47 mins). The CDs are glass mastered, mastered by Alex Gold at quiet details, and the six-panel digipack is designed by Plant43 in the Silver Threads style. The 8-page booklet includes extracts from The Pattern, writing that accompanied the subscriber-exclusive Remnants packages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silver Threads","offers":[{"title":"2CD","offer_id":55846655099211,"sku":"R7730-3141","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/56f9786e-3aa2-a78c-697a-cf3791213841.jpg?v=1762425352"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/jo-johnson.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}