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Oxon to release debut EP
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 28 October 2015
Former Zulu Winter drummer Guy Henderson has announced the debut EP from his CMU approved solo project Oxon. Titled ‘Stumbling Stones’, the record will be released though his own Chalk Records label on 16 Nov.
“Having finished up with Zulu Winter I felt a new lease of energy to throw into some of my own music”, Henderson tells CMU. “I’d always wanted to get a project going which was more electronic in nature. I built a studio in London with a friend and then started spending lots of late evenings working on developing a sound. I remember having these really productive few winter months, locked away… I was teaching drums for a large part of my time in the studio and then would stay on after to work on my music”.
“My focus was to try to go for a dancefloor sound really”, he continues. “To make club tracks incorporating more of the techno and electronica I listen to. However I think I’ve landed somewhere in the middle of these dance influences mixed with more melodic/song elements from my indie background”.
On finding himself working alone, he adds: “I’ve always enjoyed collaborating and I do miss the spirit of working on an album with so many others involved. But equally it’s been a really important time for me working alone on this. I’ve been enjoying exploring more melodic parts of writing that I wouldn’t usually have considered my strength. In some ways I still approach a lot of the tracks I write as a drummer would. Rhythmical elements are still what interest me the most in compositions. Perhaps it’s also opened up the way I listen to musical influences. At times when I would analyse and dissect a drum track my head’s now focused on composition as a whole”.
Next on the agenda after this release is getting together a live show, before more new music next year. “I’m pretty sure I’ll be moving further into a club sound for the next release”, he says.
From the EP, this is ‘The Hours’:
