Magic Arm

A comeback record of sorts for Marc Rigelsford’s Magic Arm project. The 45 is a taster for his own privately released “Dance Mania” full length. Recorded in isolation in a former whiskey distillery, “Dance Mania” is “Magic Arm whittling and distilling sound down to pure forms, a collage of songs, mood pieces, drones, found sounds and stirring instrumental passages”. The two tracks here are lifted from the album, with its A side, the majestic “Good Views Near North” having already attained 6music airplay. The song's treated piano opening offers no hint to the beautifully incessant, kind of motorik groove that then takes over - wonderfully skewed and quite otherworldly perhaps. The groove then changes tack again as it closes with cellos and strings aiding further it’s general "out there" mood. Its flip, the more electronic, and equally fabulous “432” is just great too.