The Sedate / Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. serves as a solo release from Ailie Ormston of ******** / GUINNESS [Domino Recording Co.]. Comprised of two separate projects, the works coalesce to provide highly surged compositions. The tracks were co-written alongside one drum machine and one synth, embracing elements of chance and coincidence. Writing and recording came simultaneously, a production line of spontaneous melodies with realtime decision making ultimately determining how it sounded, as opposed to preconceived ideas. Ormston intends to confront the traditions of presenting, performing and digesting music in an attempt to articulate a form of a contemporary condition. She aims to construct a coherent visual language that corresponds to music writing, carrying its ethos into different forms and varying modes of communication. Side A - 001, 002, 003 and 004 were composed specifically for The Sedate, a work by artists Stasis, developed throughout 2018, concluding as a short film and a performance on a building site in Merchant City, Glasgow. Heavy drums, tiny handbags, choral synths, big earrings, a fight scene, a breather and finally, La Macarena. They are listed here in order of appearance. Side AA - A32, A18, A67, B12 and B34 were composed in short succession post Side A, collectively known as Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. Providing increasingly convoluted textures and arching narratives, these tracks are challenging in their multiplicity, with contrapuntal instrumentation being heard simultaneously. Multitasking is encouraged. Physical renditions of each track were realised and presented as an exhibition, An oat latte, but with no image in the foam at Market Gallery, Glasgow. An accompanying text written during this residency can be found alongside the release. "Ailie’s crude and playful creations – presented along with self-effacing artwork and track titles (very much in the weegie DIY underground tradition) – represent something of a bright new wave of electronic multi-media weirdness in the Scottish scene. Veering far-away from the ever looming dogma and smooth modernity of ever-present analogue synthesis, Ailie brings to life something resembling a stumbling, juiced-up robot. It’s parts operating and and out and out of flux, it’s legs falling over and picking itself back up again, it’s inner organs twisting, popping and flickering on and off. Using a mix of indeterminate and iterative compositional strategies, The Sedate / Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo recalls the fractal looped electronics of Black Dice, the tongue-in-cheek wit of early Hype Williams experiments, perhaps even the squashed synthesis of some of Russell Haswell's work. It's always refreshing to hear this sort of stuff come out of nowhere - and great to see a new label (50% Pure) on the scene delivering the goods" - Fielding Hope (Cafe Oto, Counterflows) "This is glorious. I can smell sweat and steel, I'm running in flapping polyester, I'm standing in the crowd with my boys and instead of Frank Sinatra playing its this: clanging, playful post-industrial shudders" - Joel White (No Globe, Ideal Mexico) "It is like being shown that there are no rules anymore. Music is music if you want it to be. Music must be destroyed for it to be rebuilt, for it to be alive. This is one of those records which tears it up and looks at it face-on with a stern but sad look." - Fin Clark (Still House Plants) Mastered at Green Door Studio, The Sedate / Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. is available on digital platforms and limited 180g vinyl through Rubadub distribution from November 23rd. All work written and recorded by Ailie Ormston © 2018 Produced by Lindsey @ 50% PURE