Dialect

Dialect is the solo project of British musician and composer Andrew PM Hunt. Embracing an intuitive, collage-like approach to sound, he assembles rich organic textures with evocative electro-acoustic environments, resulting in compositions that are both fragmented and deeply personal. Following a progression of concept-rich releases across almost a decade, Dialect marks a return to RVNG Intl. in 2024 with Atlas of Green, a work of speculative musical poetry melding a patchwork of scavenged relics and bygone hues through the shimmers of a mid-future in flux.

Often inspired by literature as a way of organizing his musical impulses, Hunt is drawn to ideas around circular time, spirituality and ecology. His burgeoning interest in the fantasy writing of Ursula K. Le Guin and Gene Wolfe, as well as the work of Italian philosopher Federico Campagna, has fed into the everexpanding mythologies and magic of Dialect’s sonic sphere. With his arrival at Atlas of Green in 2024, Dialect elegantly molds unexacting details of memory and mistranslation, as the album imagines a young musician named Green working in a future era, where lost signals and enduring impulses are unearthed from the sediments of technology and time.

Nurturing new gradients between improvisation and composition in his live show, Dialect navigates both the realms of narrative and pure sensation, grounding his material by prioritizing emotional depth and resonance. “I’m interested in achieving a balance of design and chance in my music, inspired by natural processes”.

Previous appearances at Rewire, Making Time ∞ and a European tour supporting Yann Tiersen have been very well received.

He is also a member of acclaimed minimalist ensemble Ex-Easter Island Head (Rocket Recordings).

The beauty of Under~Between is how elegantly it illustrates the idea of interdependence, tangling together seemingly unrelated sounds so that they are impossible to tease apart, and creating a space for peaceful contemplation in that web of interconnectedness. Philip Sherbourne, Pitchfork

‘Across each of his deeply psychedelic releases, he challenges the human-centric ideology underpinning environmental exploitation by enabling listeners to peek into his systems of life’ Lewis Gordon, The Wire

‘Like a glorious garden in full bloom, with every petal pruned to perfection, Under~Between is incredibly arresting’ Patrick Clarke, The Quietus

In this suggesting of slippage from from one state to another, from acoustic to digital, from the heard to the underheard, there is enormous imaginative space in which to play and Hunt and his collaborators make full use of it’ Louise Gray, The Wire