Jansky Noise - In the Corridors with Santa Anna | featuring Brokli | Born of Black Light LP

Jansky Noise - In the Corridors with Santa Anna | featuring Brokli | Born of Black Light LP

“Track one from the upcoming album Jansky Noise - Born of Black Light (8-track LP).

The first release from Jansky Noise (a.k.a. Andy MacGregor) in 13 years. 'In the Corridors with Santa Anna' is an epic journey through deeply drenched electronica. Born in Black Light is an 8-track LP which blends Afrofuturism, jazz, avant-garde electronics, power noise, and the spiritual.

Each track is a deep dive into the boundless connection between space, the spiritual realm, and the cosmos—a fusion that reflects Jansky Noise's decade-long immersion in the ethnosphere (*) and his exploration of the unseen forces that bind our universe.

The album, Born of Black Light, revisits many of Jansky Noise's old projects, pulling content from as early as 1999 and reworking them.

'Corridors with Santa Anna' features Brokli who adds a signature touch with guitar work and vocal harmonies.”

Brokli is a UK musician Jansky Noise has worked closely with, among all as a producer and manager, also collaborating on Brokli’s 2024 music videos such as 'Mother Gaia' and 'Let Me Be Your Driver'.

Jansky Noise tells about the album:

"'In the Corridors with Santa Anna' is a bonus from the album and features stunning guitar work by Brokli. Together, we added vocal harmonies to enrich its spiritual atmosphere. The name 'Santanna' is reference to Orange and Lemo - 'Dreams of Santa Anna' as well as to the legend Carlos Santana, the double 'n' symbolizing the 'noise' that permeates this entire project.

I'll be releasing more tracks from Born of Black Light through the winter solistice. If all goes well, the full album will be out over 2024-2025."

"This album has some quite serious sonic fiction within, but it is all mixed up as we attempt to repaint the future with a sonic canvas written today.

Track 3 on the album, 'In the Wrong Café' takes you on a cosmic and surreal journey through a space jazz, afro-noise, white noise and the interstellar. This track is an explosion of frantic percussion, spaced out vocals by Orion Vox, and stella horns. The saxophone wails, and the brass spins smoky rings through galaxies. Scenes of dim lights, hazy parades, and surreal serenades, all set within a jazz maze under a star-kissed haze.

It's a really heavy space jazz, afro-futuristic track which kind of attempts to redefine narrative, noise and jazz. I should warn you it’s a dense, cathartic listen. It is one of the other tracks with narrative storytelling, space poetry by Orion Vox.

Pretty sure, there are very few songs like this one. That is also the point, I want to re-invent and since all the ideas were taken from musics already played, and pulled back sonically from the ethnosphere or cosmos and reworked, it makes absolute sense, well, at least to me it does.

I wanted to blend dissonance with something comforting, so that even with all the chaos there is meaning in the unfamiliar or surreal. The song celebrates jazz as a genre and salutes improvisation, abstraction, and the unexpected—qualities mirrored by the ‘Wrong Café’, where nothing is quite right but everything feels deeply resonant. The music becomes a metaphor for navigating through strange, cosmic spaces, perhaps even representing life’s uncertainties, where dissonance and harmony coexist.

Other tracks are about the Dogon people's spiritual connection to the Sirius.

As well as tracks about the Ankh Frequencies."

You can read more about the album from Jansky Noise's blog.


(*) "You might define the ethnosphere as being the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness." (Wade Davis)