Organum Electronics is the ultra heavy Drone Noise project of British artist David Jackman. The difference from his main project, Organum, is that it literally uses electronics as a material for creating sounds.

"Darcknes" is the sibling album of "Quietude". It is a similarly dense work, consisting of buzzing washes of electronic sounds, reminiscent of the very first Organum recordings. In common with other recent works, the piece uses a carefully chosen set of sound sources, overlaid and structured to form a tapestry of shifting textures.

"In 'Darckness', some field recordings pop up, church bells, among the dense mass of electronic sound, whereas 'Quietude' seems all electronic throughout. Both seem to have been cut from more extensive work, ending quite abruptly. The overall sound design is quite similar in both pieces, and they share a general grimness about these works, as with many of his works. Think of this as being locked up in a factory, with sounds buzzing everywhere, and reminding me of the early harshness of Organum, sans electronics: dense, minimal and dark... another excellent work" (Vital Weekly). 

Recorded in 2021 and edited by Alan Jones at RMS Studios South London, the CD comes in a gatefold digisleeve with graphic artwork by Jonathan Coleclough. Ltd x 500 copies.

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UK-based composer and visual artist David Jackman began his career in the late 1960s in the experimental group Scratch Orchestra. He started recording solo work in the late 1970s, mostly on self-released cassettes in very small numbers. In the early 1980s he established his main project, Organum, which evolved into a new version under the name Organum Electronics in 2019.