Isness

The Soul (pretending we have one) is the most precious item at our inner disposal, the source of our vitality, our filament in the web of existence, our Isness, and we wouldn't surrender it for just anything.

Stephen Mo Hanan: Selling Your Soul to the Devil for Fun and Profit 2009

The filament is severed, the web unraveled, the Isness lost.

Stephen Mo Hanan: Selling Your Soul to the Devil for Fun and Profit 2009

Weidenbaum: Have you heard the new Future Sound of London record, The Isness?

Disquiet » Psych Out 2002

The only way to fully appreciate the gap between Dead Cities and The Isness, other than hearing them back to back, is to imagine Philip Glass having followed up his minimalist opera Einstein on the Beach with a Romantic flute concerto, or Radiohead having followed its fragmented Kid A album not with the complementary sounds of Amnesiac but with a full-length record of anthemic U2 covers.

Disquiet » What Is Is 2002

Music:FSOL - The Isness - her tongue is like a jellyfish

Egoboo sbisson 2002

As Cobain explains, The Isness documents his own search for a balance between “soul” and “technology” a sign of his rebirth, he steps out from behind the mixing board and sings.

Disquiet » What Is Is 2002

Such is the shock that awaits FSOL fans who enter the world of The Isness unprepared for its caked layers of orchestration, its lengthy patches of folkie back-porch mysticism, its full-body nods to Indian raga.

Disquiet » What Is Is 2002

Weidenbaum: So the song Yes My Brother, with Philip Pinn and Herb Moons, is not on the final version of The Isness?

Disquiet » What Is Is 2002

Long a standard bearer for experimental electronic pop music, Future Sound of London returned in the summer of 2002 with its first album in seven years, The Isness Hypnotic.

Disquiet » What Is Is 2002

And fond as he is of Isness‘ sloppy, “flawed” effluence, he’s excited about returning to his samplers.

Disquiet » What Is Is 2002