‘OMBILICAL’ TRACKLISTING : <\/p>\n\n\n\n
i. Phoneme (Phone Me)
ii. Death & The Seahorse
iii. Unbosoming
iv. Skeletons
v. How I Sit At The Piano
vi. Lorabora
vii. H.Paradoxus
viii. Peu Concluant
ix. The Dark Is Light Enough
x. To The Safety Of The River<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Textile Ranch (named after a 1985 instrumental by Felt) is the unfeathered nom-de-plume Second Language founder, Glen Johnson, invariably reserves for his more playful experiments with electronic music. The 2L label itself was launched back in 2009 with a crowd-funded Textile Ranch release, \u2018Tombola\u2019 <\/em>but the name itself harks back to 2000, when Static Caravan released the clear vinyl 7\u201d, \u2018Huit Oiseaux Bruns Dans La Nuit Blanche<\/em> (Mod\u00e8le R\u00e9duit).\u2019 Further lowkey releases peppered the next few years on the since-retired independents, Audraglint, Lykill, Very Friendly and Make Mine Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Ombilical,\u2019<\/em> (French for \u2018umbilical\u2019 no less) could be considered an exercise in, literally, navel-gazing, as it finds Johnson far removed from the introspective guitar-led songsmithery of his former group, Piano Magic and immersed in his love of electronic composition. By his own admission, \u2018Ombilical\u2019<\/em> serves foremost as a sonic toybox for Johnson, its often disharmonic, looped polyrhythms are inspired greatly by the Fluxus art movement of the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. As he explains, \u201cI don\u2019t consider anything here to be finished. There\u2019s a Meccano process to what I\u2019m doing \u2013 ideally, I could, effectively, add to the tracks indefinitely until they no longer remotely resemble the starting point.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n