out now: Gareth Jones - ElectroGenetic 2 [Mortality Tables]

Artist:
Gareth Jones

Title:
ElectroGenetic 2 – Nos Da

Label:
Mortality Tables

Cat#:
tba

Release Date:
21st January 2026

Format:
CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Ersprach

02.
Maths

03.
Qpas

04.
Suchislove

05.
Mphon

06.
Kath

07.
Wbug

08.
Pyotr

09.
Erofili

10.
Ludwig

11.
Ikaria

12.
Parting / Nosda

Press Info:
The Making of ElectroGenetic 2 – Nos Da: A Reflection on Memory, Sound, and Sonic Experimentation

Nos Da is both a personal document and an artistic gesture – an album that weaves together memory, family connection, and the creative potential of modular synthesis. At its core is my relationship with my father and the profound effect his record collection had on me. These records were never just sounds – they were portals: to feeling, to texture, to imagined places. I grew up listening to them. In fact, I like to think I started listening before I was even born.

The album’s title, Nos Da, comes from a childhood misunderstanding. Each night, as he tucked me into bed, my father would say “Nos Da” – Welsh for “Good night.” But I misheard it as “no star.” Even so, those words wrapped me in safety. Revisiting that phrase now, I understand what he was really saying. This album is my way of saying it back to him: “Good night, and thank you.”

The final track, ‘Parting’, carries that intention most clearly. After his death, I discovered a vinyl recording he had made in a booth, years before I was born. It was a spoken message for my mother before she left on a long journey. In it, he speaks of love and distance, and of being strong in parting. Hearing his voice again in that moment was deeply moving – and I knew I wanted to bring it into this album. I’ve reframed it – not to interfere with his message to her, but to honour our own relationship. In ‘Parting’, the piece becomes a quiet posthumous conversation between father and son.

Much of this album was made away from my usual studio. Four pieces were composed in a countryside hotel in England, using Eurorack modules like Maths, Mimeophon, Wogglebug, and QPAS. These weren’t being used as conventional sound sources—they were collaborators in sonic unpredictability. I let them speak, and followed where they led.

Six more pieces came to life on a hotel terrace overlooking the Aegean Sea in Greece. I was working with a tiny modular case, just enough to sketch and build. The peaceful, expansive atmosphere shaped the tone and texture of those tracks. A year later, I returned to the same place and created the final two pieces on an iPad – no cables, no patching, just immediacy and flow.

In sum, Nos Da is a record shaped by listening, by remembering, and by a desire to transmit meaning through sound. It is at once intimate and exploratory, fusing modular synthesis with archival audio, analog warmth with digital immediacy. It stands as a sonic farewell, a form of time travel, and a quietly radical act of reconnection across generations.

— Gareth Jones

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