Since the release of 2003’s ‘Spokes’, Plaid have scored two of Michael Arias’ award-winning films, released ‘Greedy Baby’, an ambitious audio-visual collaboration, continued to perform around the world (including a landmark performance at Warp Records’ 20th birthday celebrations) – and have now crafted a new album for release this Autumn. Hear the first music from it at the link above, via a spectacular video directed by Richie Burridge.
Latin in origin, the word ‘scintilli’ can be translated as ‘I am many sparks’. A self-affirming mantra Plaid (aka Ed Handley and Andy Turner) claim to chant for two hours every morning, before starting work in their newly built studio shed in North London. Every beat of the work has been carefully crafted: they’ve calculated that each beat has taken approximately one day to construct - from the announcement of the laying down of the first foundation beat in early 2009, to the rendering of the final decay earlier this year. ‘This labour intensive process will guarantee long lasting pieces of music that can withstand the restless tensions placed upon them by modern playback devices’, they insist.
