Sumatran Black – This Loving presence

Of course i’m going to write about Peter as I know him, to know him is to love him,

let me count the ways

The soft pads, the subtle beats, the use of samples from tv and Film ( his Rohmer influenced side project Camomile Dawn is a lofi 120 house techno melancholic project that demands you process now and add to your mixes )

This new Sumatran Black Album was written in the hours of darkness and in the wee small hours with abnormal sleep patterns, and at these hours the best work is often made, and what work it is

Deep sensations and images flood the mind. Nighthawks who work with zoom all day and barely see anyone. These are the strange days and emotions are fraught and we are RAW. Permit me to dream but I think we will see a huge return to clubs and live music and a third summer of Love. (this has been talked about a lot in the excellent faith fanzine, which as you know is the continuation of the BOYS OWN fanzine a HOUSE magazine Hopefully an end to business techno TM and with a real grassroots movement of collective conscientious party promoters with a sense of History regarding club culture and redressing that the origins are black, gay, inclusive and respectful of cultures. Peter is well aware of the origins of club culture as a fanatic and lover of all types of music he’s part of the second wave of acid house babies that were raised in the 80s and 90s we were both lucky to come from inclusive backgrounds and were lucky to experience mass gatherings and concerts, I’m going off on a tangent here but this album is about dislocation and drifting away from the self. I worry for the youth of today who are missing out on essential identity building and memory making experiences. I feel as though sometimes the only thing that keeps me going now is nostalgia and I feel that there will be a generation who feel lost. Amongst manifold loss

Loss of self and loss of Life, as Louis Theroux recently put it in his excellent podcast with FKA twigs we are in a mental Health crisis Peter is dealing with emotions like we all are in Lockdown, in some ways we are both lucky in that we are both not burdened by children but at the same time we feel apart from society in that we are not convential breeders, if you will,

I read something really scary /interesting about a group called the voluntary human extinction movement..and another friend Angelo pointed out to me that if we as a species were not so reliant on Flesh none of this shit would be happening, Our lust to devour and have whatever we want and unsafe practices have brought us slaughter, I’m not going to use Morrissey here but I will because he has made intellignet points (though he has shown to be on the brink of madness as well.. re facism) well… Meat Is Murder

to conclude … Your Loving Presence is needed, however it is, be it a digital reproduction ( JOI Blade runner 2 ) zoom love story telling and reaching out to your family ( both Pete and I are away from our close families )

please buy his music it is from the heart and heartwrenching as I have said before his melodies are heart renderingly beautiful.