The Irish producer Mick Donohue is to release a new album Scenes, Journeys & Colors on Rudimentary Records on March 28, 2025.
After releases with inspirations drawn from tropical and dub sounds, crate-digging and comics in Brazil and a live collaboration on a dance show with Emma Martin, t-woc is set to release his second album on Rudimentary, after 2016’s Sentinelas.
Here’s the background:
The bones of the album was made during the ‘quiet time’ starting with a track that didn’t make the cut on this release but had provided the blueprint to the project titled ‘Street Soul Osaka’.
It was a recent chance encounter with a lone boombox playing actual street soul on a pavement in Osaka that it became clear the project needed to be released and the album was completed in Dublin in 2024.
This album is crafted through a blend of samples, live instrumentation, field recordings and studio experimentation. The tracks built on drum machines and live percussive elements are interspersed with minimal ambient pieces, there’s a pronounced dub undercurrent as always, and a tip of the hat to the cosmos.
There are also some vocoders and a fair dose of weirdness.
You can hear five tracks from the record on Bandcamp.
The album won’t be available on Spotify but some other streaming sites.
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