Politics of Disappearance 4/ Various - Politics of Disappearance 4 / Various

In an ever more jumbled world, sometimes it's what you can't see that's most important. The fourth volume of Radio Khartoum's 18fps series is a meditation on location and visibility: The hidden and the lost, things no longer here, and things that are elsewhere. A soundtrack is projected on the inner ear, momentarily cutting through the urban barrage of light, image and noise, to find a fleeting equilibrium between leaving one place and going to another, or to experience a departed lover's presence in the fragrance of a shirt. The music begins with a small and sweet melody for things lost by THE PIERRES (featuring Christoffer Schou of Nice System/Remington Super 60), then makes a dramatic cut to Leeds based singer CAVIL and a fragile song that hovers between music box and the rhythm of the rails. DAKOTA SUITE contribute a chamber instrumental whose rich, woody cellos remind of Simon Fisher Turner's "Caravaggio" soundtrack or Rachel's' "Music for Egon Schiele". JULIEN RIBOT spins the album's second music box fantasy, but this one blows up, expanding to epic proportions, as Julien, his strings and guitars are swept away by a current of distant trumpets. Watoo Watoo collaborator Didier Duclos, aka CHRISTINE provides an interlude in the form of a wash of ringing guitars with a suggestion of Maurice Deebank, before the late, sophisticated SPRING wind things down with a haunting, stripped down version of one of their classics. All tracks exclusive.