Even though David Jackman gets the credit in the title, the music itself is pure Organum electronics - dense and noisy.

Emerging as a meditative gesture within the long and enigmatic arc of Jackman's output, "Steadfast" stands as both a summation and a deepening of concerns that have occupied him for decades. The release captures Jackman at a moment of stark clarity and quiet force. His legacy, shaped through collaborations with figures like David Tibet and Steven Stapleton, has always occupied a space between austerity and intensity, drawing on minimalism, drone, and ritualised abstraction to forge a language uniquely his own.

On "Steadfast" we find a music that is neither strictly acoustic nor electronic, but something in between; an environment, a slow unfolding. Analogue synthesizers swell and recede like distant weather systems; field recordings and incidental sounds rise with spectral insistence before dissolving again into silence. There is a patience here, a sense of refusal, of staying with the sound long after others might have let go. Moments verge on the imperceptible, only to bloom suddenly into passages of engulfing texture.

Rather than a document of change, "Steadfast" feels like a portrait of duration, of persistence in listening and making. For those familiar with the ceremonial gravity of Organum or the liminal poetics of Nurse With Wound, this work may feel at once familiar and startlingly new - a quiet epiphany from one of the most singular voices in experimental sound.

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