Combining pre-jazz American folk-form, surreal sound-collage, and evocative, unfolding melodies, Machine's Song is a wordless cinematic exploration into a landscape somewhere between the fairground, rural parlour, and the stars...

Machine’s Song is the new album from the composer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Stillman. A repertoire of music for the one man band, realised in solo performance and recording, the music of ‘Machine’s Song’ focuses on the notion of Uncanny in musical automata, one-man-band performance, and multi-track tape composition. Like Robert Stillman’s past compositional work, Machine’s Song combines pre-jazz American folk-form, surreal sound-collage, and evocative, unfolding melodies.

Utilising a mix of archaic or ‘dead’ technology, consumer-line equipment, and modern studio tools, much of Stillman's compositional work is done in a mobile, field-recording style of instruments over long periods of time, resulting in final products that are a hypothetical time-space.

'Machine's Song' was recorded as an accompaniment to the previous ‘Master Box EP’, a composition surrounding the idea of ‘Piano as Contraption’, these recordings portray the instrument, traditionally (classically) associated with the ‘Sublime,’ as the sum of its physical parts, not only a salute to the ‘physical’ attributes of piano, but to the maverick musical styles that exploited them (ragtime, boogie, etc.)

"Machine's Song is a creaky, uncanny music that creates an impressionistic picture of old America" - UNCUT

1. Intro
2. Broadwar
3. Broadwar Retreat
4. Impossible Tree
5. Tree Collage
6. Segue
7. Trail Music
8. Castle Music