Description
As home to the likes of Broadcast and Pram, Birmingham is an underappreciated hub of odd electronic music. Grandmaster Gareth is the unsung mastermind of this region. Declared “the new God” by John Peel, Gareth has recorded and performed with both aforementioned cult heroes of British electronic sounds, but has lain dormant as a solo artist for seven years, emerging now with his third solo LP ‘Magical Sound Shower’. Taking inspiration from B-movies, pulp sci-fi books, bee documentaries and an extraterrestrial state of being, ‘Magical Sound Shower’ sits alongside and builds upon its contemporaries, turning out nineteen tracks of space exotica – the soundtrack to a sci-fi movie that doesn’t exist or a modern day equivalent to Joe Meek’s ‘I Hear a New World’. In that there is no doubt.
