Forthcoming Releases on White Box - Part 1

Here at White Box HQ we somehow appear to have landed an absolute wealth of forthcoming releases, including ONE HELL of a vinyl edition release, all of which we are understandably giddy with anticipation about...being the little teases we are though, we’re saying no more about that for now. So, down to other business…

First up we are proud to announce the release of 'Trails/Traces' by Arkhonia (WHITEBOX006), due 6th September 2010 on CD. Arkhonia is one half of a collaborative project under the name of jz-arkh (or www.jz-arkh.co.uk, if you want to try and access its long-expired website) releasing two 7"s back in 2001 to some small critical acclaim.

‘Trails/Traces’ collects together an album of solo tracks, recorded from 2001 onwards, sequenced into one long, somnabulant, and occasionally uneasy listen - one track, 'DDRhodes' (included here in its original unedited form), was originally released on the first jz-arkh 7”, and acquired something of a life of its own, appearing on Kompakt's Pop Ambient 2002 comp, soundtracking a dream sequence in a short experimental film by Moritz Grund (watch here), used in an advert for the Norwegian Postal Service(!), and then turning up as part of Neil Tennant's selection on the Pet Shop Boys Back To Mine compilation in 2005.

‘Trails/Traces’ was constructed entirely from pre-existing source material, short samples and sounds stretched and dissected to reveal previously unheard harmonic and melodic possibilities, the one exception to this being a reworked Liondialer live recording transmuted ('Ladybarn' on WHITEBOX003 becoming 'GDLadyburn') into a bold and dark shadow of its former self.

For your aural delight, here’s a teaser:
WHITEBOX006 - Arkhonia 'FyldeFF' by whitebox