An Ipswich artist is releasing his second album of electronic music featuring vocal contributions from some of the region’s top singers and poets.
Montag, by The Decibel Kid, will go live on Friday, and there will be a free launch party at The Smokehouse in Ipswich from 8pm with a live performance of all ten tracks.
The CD comes with an eight-page booklet featuring analogue film photos taken by The Decibel Kid, real name Ric Hardacre, in Copenhagen, Sicily, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Ric spent a year collecting sounds for the record. There are contributions from Ipswich poet Jayd Amber Green, Essex boat builder Flavian Capes, Norfolk poet Piers Harrison-Reid and Suffolk’s Bessie Turner, who is playing Latitude festival.
“I think it’s the best thing I have done,” Ric said. “I don’t think it will be appearing in the charts but it’s got a good, solid sound to it.”
By day Ric is a computer programmer, but he has always been passionate about music and in 2014 he released his first album, Move It In Sections.
He said: “It’s something I have stuck with throughout my whole life. If I haven’t been making music I have been DJing and seeking it out.”
Originally hailing from the Yorkshire Coast, Ric has lived in Ipswich for nine years and he has a wife and two children aged 10 and 12.
Montag will be available from most streaming sites and physical copies will be on sale at the launch party.
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