why we love this

There’s a clock ticking in nonlinear time, and this record brings its inner workings to life: tinny gears, warbled bells, and temperamental glitches in rogue inventions.

about the record

Eight years after their debut, City of All Times, audio-visual enquirers John B McKenna and Richard Greenan reappear as Devonanon to share the findings of a decade-long sonic experiment.

Richard & John is a living, breathing collection of field recordings and compositions, gathered gradually from remote corners of the pair's lives. Familiar waypoints—interwoven microtonal synths, regurgitated live performances, polite whispering, and the gurgling hum of vehicles—fold into the perpetual stew.

Where City of All Times reads like a crumpled postcard account of fraternal reportage, Richard & John is a tone poem on something more amorphous and out of time—a garbled history of human closeness, upheaval, and mark-making, that seems to buckle and creak like a tapestry with no beginning or end.

No two spoonfuls are the same, as the story reels through kosmische library stylings in "Wilderness Engine," cortex-quieting free association in "Generate Countryside," and baroque instrumentation in "Blood Laughing."