Severant (Original Release)

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pemdas An undisputable classic. Bought the LP almost 10 years ago and still get goosebumps listening to these tracks. The combination of emotional synth melodies and lively frenetic rhythms on this is just perfect ; deeply engrossing, enduring work

Joshua Clark Kuedo’s Severant is essential listening. Need I say more? A modern day Vangelis (RIP)…one for the for the future…for the ages! Favorite track: Whisper Fate.

Bruno Packard Hill My Dad liked this album "it's cool" he said

Frant Dunlané An unmatched album. Kuedo has created something that is beyond music. Through repeat listens, one can begin to unravel the sonic layers of this modern classic.

Floating Frenchman Magnificent album with a lot of character ! I'm in love with it from the very first listening. Favorite track: Flight Path.

inspectorx utterly affecting, amazing and important Favorite track: Scissors.

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1.	Visioning Shared Tomorrows 02:02	buy track
2.	Ant City 03:23	buy track
3.	Whisper Fate 02:45	buy track
4.	Onset (Escapism) 03:02	buy track
5.	Scissors 03:33	buy track
6.	Truth Flood 03:41	buy track
7.	Reality Drift 02:17	buy track
8.	Ascension Phase 02:50 video	buy track
9.	Salt Lake Cuts 05:12	buy track
10.	Seeing The Edges 03:37	buy track
11.	Flight Path 04:45	buy track
12.	Shutter Light Girl 01:07	buy track
13.	Vectoral 03:04	buy track
14.	As We Lie Promising 00:56	buy track
15.	Memory Rain 03:42	buy track

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On his debut long-player ‘Severant’, Jamie Teasdale a.k.a. Kuedo has made an album of dreamlike music, loaded with his own preoccupations with futurism and escapism, that's very different from his previous output as one half of Vex’d.

With his intentions re-evaluated for the making of this album, his process to capture them has evolved to a more automatic way of creating tracks, cutting back on the endless technical options available to the modern producer and rendering them at a quicker pace to reveal a lighter, more truthful music, as he puts it: ”On the side of modernism”.

In terms of feeling, ‘Severant’ explores the space between the detached world of the imagination and the real-time world; that feeling of coming out of a daydream, on the edge of the drift from the day-to-day grind. Jamie says of this moment ”As reality shapes imagination and escapism affects your choices in the real world, there is a strange relational loop between the two and the space in between the two. There’s a bitter sweetness in that gap, it has a certain emotive quality, kind of in between being and non-being”.

Again, musically ‘Severant’ is inspired by related themes. It sounds as if it’s in a sweet spot between the emotive, innately futurist synth soundtracks of Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, borne from a time when the very idea of futurism was more prevalent, in combination with musical ideas and inspiration from the emotionally ambivalent, materialist fantasies of ‘coke rap‘ such as The Clipse. Rhythmically the record is influenced by what Jamie calls ”the two ultra modern musics of modern times”, footwork from Chicago, which Planet Mu has explored in depth on its recent releases, and again the drum machine grids of coke rap. Jamie says ”I wanted to capture a really futurist sentiment, kind of melancholy and grand luminescent, so I used the instrument that most evokes that for me - that sweeping Vangelis brass sound.” And on coke rap he talks about the emotional ‘half being’ of the music, the energetically charged, detached ambivalence of the MCs, and the admission that the MCs could be ”fantasising without admitting to doing so.”

The title ‘Severant’ refers to stark changes of circumstances in Jamie’s life when the album was made and the music works strangely like scenes from a film: tracks are concise and direct and one of the albums great and unusual strengths is that on repeated listens different songs rise to the surface and the album repeatedly changes and develops in the listeners ears and mind.

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released October 17, 2011

Artwork by Anna Higgie

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