Album artwork for Translate by Luke Abbott

Translate is the first solo artist album in six years from Norfolk synthesizer specialist Luke Abbott: a strikingly direct and assured return to the solo music-making game following a productive diversion into live improvisation with his experimental jazz trio Szun Waves.

At times dark and ominous, others bright and welcoming, these eleven electronic vignettes form a dramatic and undeniably cinematic body of work which functions as a fitting widescreen soundtrack to our new now. The lumbering rhythms, strident synths and distinctive touchstones of Translate represent a musical reconciliation with the directness of the wave-making rolling synth-kraut of Abbott’s forthright debut Holkham Drones.

Newly-reinvigorated and with a new sense of musical purpose, this is Luke Abbott’s sound fully realised and never so sure of itself.

Luke Abbott

Translate

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Album artwork for Translate by Luke Abbott
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£27.99

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Released 20/11/2020Catalogue Number

55BCLP

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Album artwork for Translate by Luke Abbott
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£11.99

Released 20/11/2020Catalogue Number

55BCCD

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Luke Abbott

Translate

Border Community
Album artwork for Translate by Luke Abbott
LPx2

£27.99

Black
Released 20/11/2020Catalogue Number

55BCLP

Learn more
Album artwork for Translate by Luke Abbott
CD

£11.99

Released 20/11/2020Catalogue Number

55BCCD

Learn more

Translate is the first solo artist album in six years from Norfolk synthesizer specialist Luke Abbott: a strikingly direct and assured return to the solo music-making game following a productive diversion into live improvisation with his experimental jazz trio Szun Waves.

At times dark and ominous, others bright and welcoming, these eleven electronic vignettes form a dramatic and undeniably cinematic body of work which functions as a fitting widescreen soundtrack to our new now. The lumbering rhythms, strident synths and distinctive touchstones of Translate represent a musical reconciliation with the directness of the wave-making rolling synth-kraut of Abbott’s forthright debut Holkham Drones.

Newly-reinvigorated and with a new sense of musical purpose, this is Luke Abbott’s sound fully realised and never so sure of itself.