LOM20 · cassette, lathe-cut record, digital on Bandcamp · released 11 November 2022 · 11 tracks, 39:42
Robotic Folk, a solo project by Lithuanian composer and musician Jonas Jurkūnas, comes with a debut record named “Volume One”, subtitled “Artefacts Of Human Civilisation in Robotic Folklore”.
Jonas imagines a dystopian future, long after the end of our time, where robots reinvent and reuse the leftovers of human musical heritage left in the remains (and their RAM). New robotic folk spontaneously emerges from the ruins, sung by synthetic indigenous programs that evoke the history of our music-making ancestors. Volume One comes out as a tape, a limited lathe-cut record and a digital release.
Tracklist
Sienpjoviai (5:25)
Aniii (4:17)
Pertrauka (3:54)
Pujam (2:44)
Libai (4:34)
Freizai (3:02)
Sfera (2:46)
Zalias Lapas (3:17)
Bumbum (3:16)
Ryga (2:44)
Skrydziai (3:43)
Reviews
“(…) a visionary work with many dystopian twists, which – long after the end of our current society – prefigures a synthetic, unconventional man-machine integration” — Aurelio Cianciotta (neural.it)
Credits
All tracks composed, arranged, produced and performed by Robotic Folk Mastered by Justinas Štaras @ Garso Generatoriai Artwork by Ester Mládenková Illustration by Junko Cover photography was taken from "Breath takers" video from Prelinger Archives Special thanks to Rudy Quinn roboticfolk.com Lathe-cut records were made at Darkroom, Lithuania Cassettes made by Headless Duplicated Tapes, Czechia Released by LOM as LOM20 (cassette, lathe-cut record, digital), 11 November 2022. Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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