MH-227 Neotropic - White Rabbits After a string of successful releases for Ninja Tune's Ntone imprint, Neotropic makes her Mush debut with her finest work to date: White Rabbits. Utilizing collaborative live performances from a number of talented guest musicians on a bed of sparse programming, Neotropic has crafted a release that is a continuation of her migration toward warm, minimal, acoustically grounded compositions. Her blend of environmental audio and rhythms document many moods and transitions. Piano lines and strings drift above fragile drum loops, an unassuming guitar strum slowly develops into a moving body of instruments, and sporadic vocals muse on the difficulty of finding and maintaining love.

Tracklist 01. Girls At The Seaside 02. New Cross 03. Inch Inch 04. Magpies 05. Odity Round-A-Heights 06. Feeling Remote 07. Small Moves 08. Joe Luke 09. If We Were Trees

Release Details Release Date: 08/17/2004   Running Time: 56:30   2XLP/Out Of Print CD/Out Of Print Territory: World

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Riz Maslen aka Neotropic first came to the attention of electronic music fans in 1996 when she collaborated with ambient legends Future Sound of London on the band's Accelerator album. After a string of successful releases on Ninja Tune's minimalist and downbeat techno-centric sister-imprint Ntone, Maslen brings her warm, minimal moodiness, a blissed out fusion of languid beats and spatial arrangements, to Mush, comparing love to the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland - difficult to find and even more difficult to hold on to. - San Francisco Examiner