Scrapbook

this is the second album from jonny trunk, the man behind cult label trunk records. it really doesn't sound like anything else. well as you'd expect from trunk it's anything but normal, with the man drawing on influences both far, wide and quite weird. throughout this musical freak show he brings us the man who sings with no throat, a japanese choir, some wife-swapping and some maths. following the success of his debut album 'the inside outside' in 2004, jonny has continued to make music. the sounds he creates are based on all his musical loves - film music, tv music, library music, strange music, sex music, jazz, a bit of folk and early electronics. those influences clearly permeate the tracks he has made over the last few years, and all can be heard here in his scrapbook. the name scrapbook has been chosen as many of the recordings released here are fragments, curiosities, ideas, unfinished musical symphonies, recording where time has interfered too much. but according to jonny "our attention spans have diminished, we are more used to sound bites, shorter cues, weird little things". he continues "although a track might have an abrupt end and may only be 69 seconds long, i started it and finished it and it's perfect the way it is." what makes jonny's music so unusual is that it really doesn't sound like anything else. he mixes strange time signatures with unexpected vocals, peculiar instruments, samples from far away places and from odd corners of the musical past. there's a sort of bizarre musical alchemy at work here and as a whole scrapbook works on many levels, and will confuse, excited, mystify and entertain for a while to come.