With 'The Inheritors', Holden goes down the same road - concentrating his compositional efforts on a handful of tracks and letting the rest of the album scatter and thrash about like a.James Holden has released hardly any music of his own since his first album, 2006's The Idiots Are Winning, but he hasn't been a wallflower either.Besides continuing to pluck new talent for his label, Border Community-which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year-he released one of the more deranged editions in the DJ-Kicks series with his 2010 entry of sun-blazed krautrock and pastoral.
James Holden MAC Salle Principale, Montreal QC, May 27 Considering both his dance-orientated past and his more recent forays into the obscure, a modern day James Holden set has the potential to g.The latest addition to the James Holden archive is an album of solo synth work originally written to accompany the critically-acclaimed documentary ‘A Cambodian Spring’: fourteen tracks of pulsing melancholy, foreboding drone and even the occasional burst of beatless trance in the form of the uplifting arpeggios of surefire album highlight ‘Solidarity Theme’.
