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Kemper Norton: Loor (Front & Follow)

Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, October 2014

SELF-ANOINTED slurtronic folkologist Kemper Norton’s music has been labelled mysterious, occult and uncanny, the last of these being his preferred description for the vivid sound miniatures he painstakingly assembles. Using such minimal instrumentation as a laptop, harmonium and Casio keyboard, together with various low budget recording equipment, Norton seems to have an extra sensory knack of creating something moving, eerie and somewhat chilling out of almost nothing.

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