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King Midas Sound is comprised of Kevin Martin (The Bug), singer/poet Roger Robinson, and vocalist Kiki Hitomi. Their landmark 2009 debut 'Waiting For You' on Hyperdub quickly established them as falling sonically somewhere between sub-electronic lovers' rock, dub and the bleakest, slowest mutation of narco hip-hop, while on the live front they were nestled somewhere between the apocalypse and FX-drenched, shoegaze laments. In both arenas they are known as a brooding sonic force. With a move over to Ninja Tune and the release of 'Funny Love' an even deeper sense of spaciousness began to set in. That track’s dramatic tonal shift acted as a catalyst for the idea of a conceptual collaborative project to be born. Hence this first edition (in a series of four), appropriately titled 'Edition 1'.

'Edition 1' features collaborator number one, Austrian guitarist / electronic musician Fennesz. His 2001 album 'Endless Summer' was a swirling mix of electric tonal guitars and sweeping emotional shifts which inspired and sparked an admiration within Kevin and Roger to bring him onboard. Utilising improvised guitar tracks, samples, and unreleased material from Fennesz's archive, 'Edition 1' took shape within the KMS framework. In the wake of Kevin's last Bug album 'Angels & Devils', he wanted to create a record focused on kaleidoscopic sonic beauty, bathed in the bluest emotional lyricism. This record reflects the group’s past, present, and a truly extraordinary future.

'Edition 1' is a tide coming in. A fog reaching out into nothing, and encapsulating everything. An ultimate parting note drifting into absolute loneliness, swept up in a sumptuously blurred, dronal haze. Hallucinatory tone poems of heartbreak, despair, disappearance, and displacement. Seductively spatial sketches of long goodbyes. Music to cling to or to be used to move past. Sounds set adrift on their own tonal plain and reigned back in by Roger & Kiki's complimentary, yet extremely different deliveries. Cosmic blues meets a siren’s song. A zonal re-examination of "It's Raining Today" or an audio representation of a Sugimoto "Seascapes" photo... A high water mark forever etched to memory.

TRACK LISTING

Mysteries
On My Mind
Waves
Loving Or Leaving
Melt
Lighthouse
Above Water
We Walk Together
Our Love