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Released May 2013 · 6 Tracks
The debut record — every instrument, every note, every decision made by one person. Written, performed, recorded and produced entirely by John Stuart. Available on CD and digital download.
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Ontofield is a word he invented: ontological — the philosophical study of being and existence — collapsed into field, meaning a dimension, a plane, a space where different rules might apply. The name came before the music.
"Anarchic progressive music" — self-described, 2013. Still accurate."
The debut album Sleeping With Fractals was released in 2013 — every instrument performed, every note written, every decision made by one person. Available online at Bandcamp and sold to independent record stores across the world.
The second album has a title: Authority. It explores the nature of power, control, and what happens when people are simply left alone to organise themselves. It is not an angry record. It is something more considered — and in places, more disturbing than anger.
He is based in the UK.
A note on the name: John Stuart Mill — philosopher, political economist, and one of the great defenders of individual liberty against the encroachments of authority — would have found Authority a congenial listen. Whether that connection is coincidence is left as an exercise for the listener.