Concrete Botany by Wil Bolton

Out on CD and DIGITAL January 1st 2026

Concrete Botany is an album inspired by the artist’s psychogeographical walks around the area surrounding his East London home. These tracks explore the edgelands of Leyton and Leytonstone, interzones between the urban and rural, including community parks, cemeteries, underpasses and industrial estates.

Field recordings from these sites were processed and added to during artist residencies at Electronic Studio Radio Belgrade in Serbia and EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in Stockholm, Sweden.

Radio Belgrade’s historic 1970s EMS Synthi 100 is the same model of synthesiser as used by Eduard Artemyev for the score to Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker movie. Its oscillators, filters, envelopes and sequencer provide the majority of the electronic tones on Concrete Botany, and it was also used to treat the environmental sounds through its filters and reverb.

Further electronics were recorded with the Buchla 200 modular synthesizer system at EMS, where the album was mixed down with the addition of analogue delay effects and spring reverb, with final tape mastering by Ian Hawgood.

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