Raime is Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, an enigmatic London-based duo looking for re-establish electronic composition as a physical and emotionally inquisitive force. Their debut album, Quarter Turns Over A Living Line has been released on sharp London label Blackest Ever Black in November 2012, and a stunning new A\V live show emerges with it.
To date, over three sold-out EPs released on and a select string of imperious live outings (including a commanding display at Unsound 2012, at Sonar as watched by Aphex Twin, a pronounced admirer of their work, and dates with the likes of Hype Williams and Cut Hands), Raime have honed a shadowy aesthetic all of their own.
Their music offers a creeping, unavoidable sonic truth, moving steady and relentless from the speakers and weaving vast waves of sound, both beautifully intricate and artfully industrial, around gut-shaking rhythm cycles. On Quarter Turns Over A Living Line the gothic and industrial signifiers of their earlier work remains, but more submerged and oblique than ever – no less pronounced as influences than jungle’s rhythmic dynamism and doom metal’s oppressive weight, or aspects of techno, modern composition and dub.

Teatro Carlo Gesualdo | aug 31 2013