Portable Reality Generator CD

Limited to a unique count of 333 copies, Mark Burford, aka Field Lines Cartographer, delivers Portable Reality Generator, topping up his rep as one of the new generation of musicians crafting original sonic worlds in electronic music using primarily modular synths. Like Peter Kropotkin turned ambient noise-punk, Burford's work as Field Lines Cartographer has heard him map the ley lines of an alternate Albion since at least 2016 - with full-length works from the likes of Magnetic Anomalies to The Ferric Landscape evoking outerworldly, just-intoned themes. Here, on his latest record, Burford channels the kosmische vibe of early Tangerine Dream whilst going on to transcend the formulae they laid down, amounting to an implicit exercise in world-building. Avowing the logic of fantasy with one's own reality, Burford remarks of the record: "I've always loved how music creates new worlds - imaginary environments you can live in."