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Alterations V2 1: Backstitch

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Backstitch is one of the strongest stitches in needlework. 🪡

This is the first track for the second volume of my slow album project, Alterations, which I'm recording and releasing track-by-track during 2025 as a way to make more music and stay connected during uncertain and often bleak times.

This is a long piece and its mood teeters somewhere between rabble rousing and unnerving. The soundtrack to a growing movement. But which one?

Backstitch was recorded on the 8th October and arranged and mixed between 14th and 21st October (a little slower than usual as I was busy with Bleep43 on 11th October and then caught one of the colds doing the rounds).

It was made using a Midicake Arp sequencer, Waldorf Blofeld, Vermona Mono Lancet '15, Empress Echosystem, Bluesky, OTO BIM and 1010 Bluebox. It's created from one of three improvisations on the same day, using the same core sequence, improvised and recorded into the Bluebox one after the other with live alterations. The selected recording was pulled into Ableton 12 which I used to sequence a new Moog Mother 32 arpeggio.. It was EQed, filtered and compressed, and wavetable synths were added and mutilated in the box.

Now that Backstitch is complete, I'll begin work on a subscriber-only parcel of Remnants for this track. This could include a rework of Backstitch or new track using discarded audio from the original recording session, field recordings from recent walks, and The Pattern, a booklet with rambling thoughts from my journal, studio notes and photos taken during the time period this track was recorded.

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released October 21, 2025
Written, performed, produced and mastered by Jo Johnson October 2025
Artwork by Jo Johnson

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Jo Johnson London, UK

Artist, DJ, Silver Threads label founder.

Alterations Volume One (Silver Threads): bit.ly/46haPVs

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Nov 15th Bristol
Dec 20th Osaka
Dec 21st Tokyo

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