Chicago sound artist JR Robinson‘s project Wrekmeister Harmonies will have a vinyl-only release for the LP You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me on June 11th via Thrill Jockey. Much of Robinson’s sonic work involves the interaction of tone and space (plus it’s inhabitants), using places like the Guggenheim and the Getty to “perform” his ambient drone pieces, while often re-recording them for further manipulation. For the composition You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me, Robinson brings together a slew of black metal heavy hitters such as Jef Whitehead aka Wrest (Leviathan), Mark Solotroff (Anatomy of Habit), Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors), Sanford Parker (Twilight, Nachmystium), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), and Fred Lonberg-Holm. The piece was performed last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in conjunction with a film by Robinson, which he shot in stark, decimated locations such as Detroit’s urban wastelands, and the desert around Joshua Tree. The musicians gathered later that year to record the piece at Electrical Audio with Steve Albini, and the recording will be pressed to virgin vinyl and presented in a tip-on gatefold jacket, with artwork from the UK artist Simon Fowler. This video for the track features Fowler’s cover art, showing the artist rendering the black and white line drawing thru time-lapse.
