Entering the workforce just as the music industry was crumbling in 2001, Johnny instead focused his career on film and video. Over the next 25 years, this obsession only grew. Johnny has been obsessed with analog synthesizers since his first encounter with one in 1994. His 100% solar-powered studio features a variety of esoteric modular synthesizers, like those from Buchla and Wiard, which he has spent the last couple of decades attempting to master. Johnny Woods produces improvised synthesizer music from an off-grid Earthship high in the mountains of New Mexico. Continuing the label’s mission to showcase analog and modular synthesists with respect for the past yet striving towards the future, Pavilions is a perfect beginning to the next chapter of artist releases.
Minimal and yet deceptively complex, these 7 Buchla 200e compositions invite repeated listening to explore their architectural modernism. An aural experience from the first note to the last chord that sets the mind dreaming.” - Chrome Canyon (Stones Throw artist and film composer)īehind The Sky is proud to present Pavilions by Johnny Woods, an album of delicate and evolving improvised synthesizer meditations blooming from simple seeds into fractal shimmering compositions. It’s what only the best iterative electronic music can give you, an engineering marvel - technically detailed - yet magically more than the sum of its parts.
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“This record fills me with nostalgia for a past that never really existed - a promenade at a worlds fair - on which was displayed all manner of splendid wonders both technological and spiritual, full of reverence and also a sense of dominion. You'll want to hop onto the monorail and revisit often." - Source Of Uncertainty Podcast (Buchla oriented podcast) Propulsive and optimistic, Johnny expertly showcases everything the paradise has to offer. "In Pavilions, Johnny Woods thoughtfully creates and guides the listener through a retro futuristic utopia. "A delightful constellation of effervescent Buchla textures and soundscapes." - Todd Barton (Composer and Buchla synthesist) "A beautifully engaging album, seemingly always in motion, Woods offers us a collection of tunes that conjure up an elegant sense of the past, situated in our present, to be listened to in the future.” - Scanner (Composer, writer & media critic) “Pavilions helps us imagine a better world by providing music rich with organic technologies, synthstrumental pulses and atmospheres that’s perfect to paint with” – Alex Grey (Visionary Artist) "I'm loving it!" - Michael Stein (Survive, Stranger Things Composer) Recommend if you like: Caterina Barbieri, Allesandro Cortini, Laurie Spiegel, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Cluster File Under: Synth, Modular, Analog, Minimal, Ambient