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100m Records is a boutique record label founded in 2005 around a close-knit scene of musicians and producers in North London, UK. Beyond London, the collective has now spread to New York, Copenhagen and Zurich and the aim continues to be to release music from the core artists whilst providing a platform of opportunity to new and emerging artists.
Evernow is the second full-length from artist/producer PJ Norman.
An English/Swiss transplant based now in New York City for ten years, Norman offers this sophomore set through the 100m Records label he co-founded in London, 2005. His contributions to a number of projects on the roster have included full lengths by tKatKa, Glass Rifle, Latchkey Lights, the drum and bass two-piece King Collider, and the electronic improvisation group Fates.
With this solo project Norman has diverged from his passion for collaboration by limiting the parameters around which the album was made, he explains:
"I started from scratch where I just tried to do everything, you know, drums, keys, the lot... see how close I could get to pulling it off."
The album was recorded over a period of 5 years in the 100m studio, Brooklyn, NY, by the artist. All instruments and production by PJ Norman, except track 1 synth sample by Carlsson (tKatKa), track 6 guitar sample processing by AJ Cookson (Forma/Necro Deathmort), track 8 violin Wesley Cabral.
Evernow encompasses a range of Norman's influences, including Glen Branca, Steely Dan, Bark Psychosis and Neu!
EVERNOW by PJ Norman
- Form (4:22)
- Blue Ball (3:14)
- In Every Face (2:55)
- An Afternoon At A’s (3:35)
- Light Pai (3:37)
- Meeting On Meat (3:37)
- Evernow (1:59)
- At Minehole Stream (4:49)
- A Long Delay (2:37)
Running length: 31 minutes
Evernow is the second full-length from artist/producer PJ Norman.
An English/Swiss transplant based now in New York City for ten years, Norman offers this sophomore set through the 100m Records label he co-founded in London, 2005. His contributions to a number of projects on the roster have included full lengths by tKatKa, Glass Rifle, Latchkey Lights, the drum and bass two-piece King Collider, and the electronic improvisation group Fates.
With this solo project Norman has diverged from his passion for collaboration by limiting the parameters around which the album was made, he explains:
"I started from scratch where I just tried to do everything, you know, drums, keys, the lot... see how close I could get to pulling it off."
The album was recorded over a period of 5 years in the 100m studio, Brooklyn, NY, by the artist. All instruments and production by PJ Norman, except track 1 synth sample by Carlsson (tKatKa), track 6 guitar sample processing by AJ Cookson (Forma/Necro Deathmort), track 8 violin Wesley Cabral.
Evernow encompasses a range of Norman's influences, including Glen Branca, Steely Dan, Bark Psychosis and Neu!
EVERNOW by PJ Norman
- Form (4:22)
- Blue Ball (3:14)
- In Every Face (2:55)
- An Afternoon At A’s (3:35)
- Light Pai (3:37)
- Meeting On Meat (3:37)
- Evernow (1:59)
- At Minehole Stream (4:49)
- A Long Delay (2:37)
Running length: 31 minutes
The product of a decade of work, Light Breaks Focus marks the debut full-length from artist/producer PJ Norman, a collection that began life in his native London, UK, in 2006.
During the record's creation, in 2008, he moved from London’s east end to the Bowery in New York City. His apartment hallway was painted with the phrase, “Art is Action, Object is Artefact”, the words of artist Arleen Schloss that would come to be a mantra summarizing how he felt about the possibility of music.
Growing up in Staines, UK, Norman’s love for music was intense and he studied from a young age. After achieving grade 8 from the Royal College of Music in oboe he moved to central London to enrol at City University London in music science. There, under the tutorledge of Denis Smalley, himself a protégé of Olivier Messiaen, he discovered his passion for sound-concrète, North Indian classical and West African music, peppered with influences of Brecht, Artaud, Dada, and James Joyce.
Due to this immersion in various platforms of sound and thought, Norman was able to find his voice collaborating with a myriad of other musicians in the London indie scene. He became a founding member of bands Relapse Lucy, Manalishi, and Death By Sadie. During this time, fortuitous, chance meetings with producer Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis) and guitar-noise improvisor Gary Smith encouraged him to become absorbed in the world of music production.
This first showing of songs from Norman is released through the 100m Records collective, of which he was a co-founder in 2005. Through the label he has curated and released full lengths by tKatKa, Relations, Soccer Mom and Glass Rifle, and the electronic improvisation band Fates. An active collaborator, he has been involved in many of the label’s projects as both a producer and musician.
Light Breaks Focus was recorded in Brooklyn, NY, London, and Zurich, Switzerland.
Recorded by Kris O’Connor and PJ Norman. All instruments and location recordings by PJ Norman. Produced, mixed and mastered by PJ Norman. Published by 100m Ltd. (UK).