This is a vinyl LP pressing of All the Things That Jappen by Steve Bates. Musician and sound/video installation artist Steve Bates presents a striking solo ambient/noise album of melodic smear, radiostatic blur, panoramic noise clouds and dissolving tones. Made primarily with the self-imposed limitation of a Casio SK-1, All The Things That Happen showcases the more deliberate, intensive, maximalist side of Bates’ wide-ranging sonic aesthetic and practice. An isolation record (like so many), it combines an ineffable melancholy with claustrophobic tension and simmering political rage. Constructed from layers of glistening distortion-drenched melody, pulsing and droning oscillation, bursts of blown-out chords, sweeps of static and sheets of crackling hiss, Bates has made a dynamic, ardent, iridescent noise album of impressive depth and underlying devastation.

Label: Constellation

Release Year: 2022

Track List:

1. Groves of…everything!
2. These problems are multiplied by the difficulty I have in front of a tape recorder
3. Glistening
4. Covered in silt and weed
5. Destroy the palace
6. Glimpse an end
7. Bring on black flames
8. We do not, nor to hide
9. September through September