Meshing traditional oriental sounds gleaned from guzheng and gamelan with lustrous tones from a Synthi AKS, Glasgow's Iona Fortune evokes a darkly sublime, opiated sound in Tao of I that's patently redolent of Kenji Kawai's Ghost in the Shell soundtrack as much as Sleazy Peter Christopherson's Bangkok exploits or Dopplereffekt's reverberating synthetic spaces, whilst also broadly falling into Jon Hassell's 4th World paradigm, which she recently explored quite literally in the Miracle Steps compilation from Optimo and 12th Isle's Fergus Clark. Howev… read more
Meshing traditional oriental sounds gleaned from guzheng and gamelan with lustrous tones from a Synthi AKS, Glasgow's Iona Fortune evokes a dark… read more
Meshing traditional oriental sounds gleaned from guzheng and gamelan with lustrous tones from a Synthi AKS, Glasgow's Iona Fortune evokes a darkly sublime, opiated sound in Tao of I… read more
Inspired by Eastern philosophy, in particular the I Ching, Glasgow-based Iona Fortune's music is loosely fitting in with Fourth World concepts imagined by Jon Hassell, and indeed she meshes traditional guzheng and gamelan with lustrous tones from a Synthi AKS that provides an incredible sub-bass throb. However, Fortune’s is an exercise in deep contemplation that isn’t afraid of baring it’s teeth. As opposed to so many Ambient albums riding revivalist waves right now, she seems aware of a basic truth that sound rarely works in one dimension. She aligns tradition and technology i… read more
Inspired by Eastern philosophy, in particular the I Ching, Glasgow-based Iona Fortune's music is loosely fitting in with Fourth World concepts imagined by Jon Hassell, and indeed she m… read more
Inspired by Eastern philosophy, in particular the I Ching, Glasgow-based Iona Fortune's music is loosely fitting in with Fourth World concepts imagined by Jon Hassell, and indeed she meshes traditional guzheng and gamelan with lus… read more