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Null Point

by Wil Bolton

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Paul Asbury Seaman
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Paul Asbury Seaman Fans expecting Bolton (based on the liner notes here) to be making a left turn into techno or heavily sequencer-driven tunes can keep your hats on. The echoing chords in “Patina” and “Sandalwood” produce a lilting rhythm more often associated with slow reggae music, while the title track and “Rails Overhead” get a little more quirky. Ambiguous beats float in and out, at times anchoring the atmospherics, other times themselves becoming the melody.
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Tracery 07:30
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Patina 06:45
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Sandalwood 06:57
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Null Point 07:34
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Oneirographs 05:07

about

After a long run of ethereal ambient LPs, Wil was encouraged by The Slow Music Movement Label to create a beat-led, ambient electronic release.

Null Point blends Wil’s trademark melodies and ambient textures with a more rhythmic approach. Minimal beats are constructed from thuds, clicks and crackles sampled from a vintage 7” record of heart sounds.

Plucky modular synthesizer sequences and woozy Mellotron loops are combined with the slow techno bleeps of an Erica bassline synth and crystalline keys and pads programmed on a Modal Argon8 wavetable synth, all bathed in dubbed-out tape delays and washes of reverb.

The album is anchored by downtempo dub techno constructs, swept along by heart wrenching strings & dotted with celestial electronic tones, triggering multiple sonic pleasure centers simultaneously.

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released February 8, 2024

Written and recorded by Wil Bolton
Cover art by Wil Bolton
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Released by The Slow Music Movement:
theslowmusicmovement.bandcamp.com/album/null-point

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Wil Bolton London, UK

Wil Bolton's work uses guitars, acoustic instruments, vintage keyboards and effects to create warm and emotive melodies, fragmented and submerged among beds of droning ambient textures and environmental sounds.

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