Steve Legget – Bathhouse DoLP
Label Firecracker Recordings
Cat FIREC24LP
Format DoLP Vinyl
It’s safe to say that Steven Legget has been somewhat measured in his approach to releasing music. The Newcastle native was behind the Four Hands moniker, with releases alongside iconic industrial figures Zoviet France on Signals From The North and the classic ‘Hizou’ on Claremont 56 back at the turn of the decade. Now, this Firecracker Recordings release highlights a fully realised body of work, only hinted at by the aforementioned projects. Starting life as a performance in Turkish Baths located in Newcastle upon Tyne’s City Pool, one of the last remaining civil saunas in the country, Legget has created a textured, melodic and immersive eulogy to the woozy, slow motion, drug free endorphin rush of the bath house. Pieces from this performance, alongside field recordings collected on the islands of Paxos and Loutro, South Crete are reimagined as a luscious ambient music. Accompanied by cello and electronics with real attention paid to musicality, vast and gaseous cinematic compositions are submerged beneath waves and drenched in steam and condensation.
All profits from the sales of this LP will be donated to the charity Waves for Water: http://www.wavesforwater.org/
Tracklist
A1 Siga-Siga
A2 Forte
A3 Low
B1 Still
B2 Swivel
C1 Bathhouse
C2 Golden
D1 River
D2 November
D3 Lakka