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Growing up in the Norfolk countryside in the small village of North Lopham, it is entirely
fitting that Luke Abbott should have recently taken up residence amongst the pastoral
landscapes of the Border Community. Situated in the uniquely English countryside of the
Fens, near to the Redgrave Fen to be precise, as well as being the childhood home of
our latest electronic troubador, these sensitive wetlands also boast of being the only
place in the world where the rare Raft Spider can be found...
26 year old Luke Abbott is a name which may already be familiar to some courtesy of his
2006 debut release 'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B'B' on the now sadly defunct Output
Records, which had the dubious honour of being the last slice of vinyl ever pressed by
Trevor Jackson's legendary imprint. Since then, Luke has plugged the gap with a split 7”
release on London's Trash Aesthetics (who have previously hosted the illustrious line-up
of Bloc Party, The Rakes and Tilly and the Wall), before joining us at Border Community
for the release of the rather accomplished 'Tuesday EP' in early 2008.
A musically ambitious selection of modern psychedelia, Luke crams six short but
extremely sweet songs into just 22 minutes of the 'Tuesday EP', where DJ friendly
bottom shifters rub up against dubbed-out nu-Kraut and 8-bit bleeps to form a cohesive
home-listening experience almost worthy of (allbeit slightly short!) mini-album status.
Luke's Border Community debut embraces his love of the experimental, but this is fused
with a warmth and personality which knits the six tracks together into a coherent whole.
Producing at home on laptop, synths and “various other noise-making things”, Luke
takes the slightly unconventional approach to music-making of working mainly in his
sitting room with the TV on in the background. He comes to us very much from the more
experimental and electronics-savvy side of the musical spectrum, and is not averse to
generating his own software instruments and sequencers, or the odd spot of circuit
bending and hardware hacking. In 2006 his hardware mutilation antics took him to New
York, where he performed as part of his collective known as The Tour Company at the
Bent Festival circuit-bending convention.
His love of the old school tape cassette meanwhile recently took him to Tokyo, in a
collaboration with video artist friend Dan Tombs using tape cassettes and Fisher Price
equipment to produce a short video work called 'Tape Tokyo', which was shown in the
city's Vision's Gallery. His other current line of exploration is the world of improvised
music, contributing home made electronics, feedback systems or live laptop sampling to
various improvisational groups in his current home base of Norfolk.
Luke is clearly no stranger to the live circuit, but where earlier live shows have taken on a
more electro or breakcore bent, he is currently preparing a more dancefloor-friendly
version based around the rarefied melodies of his recent material, which we are happy to
showcase at upcoming Border Community events. Although he can occasionally also be
spotted playing records at the odd Norwich club, for Luke the focus is very much on the
laptop-based live experience centred around his own special production style.
Gemma Sheppard
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