FRICTION Joanna John + Alan Waddington
FRICTION is a manifesto of an encounter – a meeting of two worlds, two musical languages, two sensitivities.
Joanna’s dense multilayered electronic textures, charged with emotional tension collide with Alan’s analog drums – a living, breathing rhythm that tells its own story. This is not a fusion, but a friction. And from that friction, a fiction is born – a new reality, an autonomous universe that belongs neither to artist alone.
FRICTION moves between structure and chaos, pulse and atmosphere, composition and improvisation. It is a dialogue without words, a tension that generates warmth. This is music that doesn’t smooth things over – it engages, unsettles and opens space for the ambiguous and the unknown.
Joanna John (Tromsø) has previously released works through Interstellar Records, Bocian Records or Total Division and Requiem Records, delving into experimental, dreamy-like electronic compositions that challenge conventional structures. More about her releases, collaborations and performances you can find here.
Absorbingly otherworldly and brilliant debut of noirish ambient electronics from Joanna John, who steps out of the shadows as a graphic designer for Biosphere, Bocian and Art Zoyd Studios releases to present her musical recordings – a big tip to fans of Teresa Winter and Felicia Atkinson (…)
That’s what Boomkat writes about her first album:
She limns the illusive feeling of altered states of consciousness, using half-heard vocals, treacly metallic pulses, and a mix of spacious synths and floating field recordings to connote the para-dimensional logic of heavy-lidded, intoxicated mindframes (…)
Her music induce a deliciously woozy state with amorphous, intimate synth sculpture, pitter patter rhythms and just as you think you’ve grasped her sound, she flips the script with a tarry streak of slo-mo darkwave dance music where you almost expect ToC’s Camella Lobo to join in. Then fittingly come followed by the dark post-punk basslines, steepled vocal and creepy chamber atmosphere with the viscous curdle of her Chris & Cosey-like finale (…)
Quietly promising story.
Alan Waddington (Los Angeles) is an accomplished American drummer and educator (Citrus Collage in Glendora) with a diverse musical background. He performed as the lead drummer for Gwen Stefani on her five-times platinum hit “Hollaback Girl,” and his dynamic drumming also brings visceral energy to releases by post-punk band Savage Republic or The Unforgiven. Long distance runner.
FRICTION contains two tracks:
1. She Said Nothing (7:28) (clickable!)
2. He heard Everything (13:28)
