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ALL IS NOT LOST

by W.R.F.

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WOODLEIGH RESEARCH FACILITY
Facility 5: All Is Not Lost
Now flying as Facility 5, Nina Walsh carries the mission started with long-time creative partner Andrew Weatherall in 2015 to its next phase with three deliciously delirious extremes nestling in cathartic harmony on this spectacular maiden voyage.
With the pair’s Facility 4 studio relocated from south London to untamed, dog-friendly Dorset, a fresh wild beauty imbues the music Nina has been creating using her keyboards, guitar, arcane machinery, voice and future-charged mixing desk science following the flurry of lockdown releases earlier this year.
W.R.F.'s trademark hallucinatory drug-chug and video game uproar still drives the acid house rocket propulsion of ‘Too Many Good Things’, lashed with radioactive greenhouse creepers, awesome whale flatulence bass rumble as an exercise in sausage-busting tension release. The mid-track reboot drop to poignant string interjection demonstrates the care and skilled micro-tweaking afoot in Nina’s new surroundings, her late partner’s spirit tangibly perched on her shoulder offering metaphysical guidance.
The suitably titled ‘Alchemy’ adds deft song structure to the W.R.F. mix over ‘I Feel Love’ mutant bassline, drop-kicked into a new cosmos aboard Nina’s voice, instantly revealed as its greatest weapon. Shot with fresh strength and confidence born from recent experience, she glides effortlessly between languid caress and raw defiant soul, beautifully illustrating her “in my heart without fear” closing pay-off.
Most startling of all is the title track’s gorgeous beatless reverie, on which Nina reflects on changes in the passage of time over sighing harmonium-cello textures with unfettered emotion. “All is not forgotten”, she stresses while grabbing the future by both testicles to fling open a new gateway. In some ways a supernatural retort to Lockdown 4’s spine-tingling 'Woodleigh Lament' farewell, the immortal spirit of Nina’s much-missed partner-in-sonic-mischief can only be smiling as she carries their gloriously unshackled mission into the future as its earthly conduit.

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released November 5, 2021

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Woodleigh Research Facility London, UK

The Woodleigh Research Facility is the name adopted by Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh to channel the creative partnership that began over 30 years ago and, in his final years flowed as a torrent of cosmic techno-funk and intergalactic future grooves at their Facility 4 studio. Since Andrew’s 2020 passing all actually solo productions are by Nina Walsh, marked by the new Facility5 name & logo. ... more

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