THE LANDSCAPE and towns of east Galway, and the science fiction of JG Ballard, have inspired a new album by the Galway musician, The Cube of Unknowing.
Drowned Zones, the fourth album by The Cube of Unknowing - aka, Francis Heery, originally from Lawrencetown,County Galway, but now living in Berlin - released on the independent Irish label, Fort Evil Fruit. Heery describes the album as a “soundtrack to a re-imagined County Galway”.
“It’s a collection of humid, dub-inflected, techno spores,” says Heery, “a Ballardian transmission from the swamps of a post-deluge Irish midlands. Prehistoric life forms swim in the grand canal, tropical vines creep through abandoned pubs and churches, and the jungle consumes Kilreekil… Loughrea… Athenry…”
Drowned Zones is released on cassette and digital download, with cover art by Ballinasloe native Ciaran Óg Arnold. The cassette version comes with a free poster by London designer JP Hartnett.
See https://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com and www.francisheery.com.
