Chicago-based spectral wanderer
Ken Camden got his start in the '90s playing guitar for groups like Arco Flute Foundation, Meisha, and eventually the
Implodes Sound Quartet (more commonly known as simply
Implodes). His instrumental solo work is a mesh of his distinctive guitar playing and layers of synthesizer textures which often sound like sitars, resulting in drone-oriented electronica that calls to mind the earliest rhythm-less Krautrock experiments of
Cluster,
Neu!, and Ash Ra Tempel, as well as the warm, melodic computer music of
Laurie Spiegel. His solo debut,
Lethargy & Repercussion, was issued on Kranky in 2010, and was followed by the densely cosmic
Space Mirror in 2013.
Camden's astral voyage continued with the release of his third solo album,
Dream Memory, in 2015. ~ Fred Thomas