{"title":"Reverse Image","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"tokokawa","title":"Tokokawa","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This collaborative release presents three immersive movements of avant-electronics full of unexpected tonal contrasts and shifts in intensity. Powered by modular synthesis, “concrete” assemblage technique and a pervasive desire to work with the full spectrum of sound. Tokokawa is the product of its two producers’ commitment to a dynamic, ever-renewing sense of aesthetics.” (Thomas Bey William Bailey) Composed from 2023 to 2024, these three pieces present a deep dive into the murky and turbulent world where analogue electronic sound sources are driven hard and without mercy into an entirely contemporary setting that’s at once commanding and convoluted. Vast torrents of apparently untamed noise are reshaped alongside iridescent whirrs, metallic scrapes, shimmering tones, space flotsam, deep well chimes, front line pulses and heaving hums over the course of three magnificent pieces that pull confrontational music inside-out to expose a kind of ravaged beauty. Tokokawa is the result of two very unique artists pulling together to share a vision mercilessly singular yet possessed of an ability to communicate far beyond as it stakes its claim to its own place on the map of sonic abstraction. Malaysia’s Reverse Image also released the excellent debut The Silence That Does Not Exist CD in mid- 2023, plus founder Siew Y’ng-Yin used to operate the renowned Mirror Tapes imprint (which ran during 2010 and 2011 and released albums by The New Blockaders, Maurizio Bianchi, Conrad Schnitzler and others). Early 2024 also saw the release of the debut Beyond the Flat Earth CD by her fiery and intense electronics project Fallen Sun. Thomas Bey William Bailey, meanwhile, has released numerous cassettes and CDs since his debut Strangelet album in 2009 and has collaborated with many artists since, including Susana Lopez, Rick Reed, Leif Elggren and others. His most recent album, Metaphysics of Autonomous Shadows, appeared in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fourth Dimension","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50455308304715,"sku":"2208517","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/reverse_image_thomas_bey_tokokawa_itunes_flat_9f7dd095_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727190349"},{"product_id":"towards-the-nocturnal-sun","title":"Towards the Nocturnal Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eTowards the Nocturnal Sun is the second album from Malaysian artist Siew Y’ng-Yin’s Reverse Image. Earlier this year she also had her debut album by her noise project Fallen Sun released by Fourth Dimension. Unlike Fallen Sun’s proclivity for melding uncompromising and often abrasive sounds together with occasional rhythmic undercurrents, Reverse Image’s approach to soundmaking is defined by measured crystalline shimmer, iridescent patterns formed on a Martian sunset, indiscernible clangs, gentle tones weaving in and out of each other, warm textural glaze, vast swathes of dilated hum, and undulating bridges that sometimes hint at the intensity of Yin’s other project. Ranging from compositions that furrow a moody ambience to others that could either sit easily alongside contemporary academic music or soundtrack a thoughtful (or thought-provoking) film, the nine pieces presented on this album shine a light onto an artist possessed of a deep understanding of her craft and the many wonderful avenues it can explore. 6 Overtly, the material forming this album takes everything on the 2023 debut, The Silence That Does Not Exist, to an even greater height where promises are fulfilled yet continue to suggest many more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fourth Dimension","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50944449806667,"sku":"2230240","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Reverse_Image_-_Towards_the_Nocturnal_Sun_6c664a93_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1733553865"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/reverse-image.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}