jo johnson-alterations volume one 2cd

Ltd repress. The inaugural release on Jo Johnson’s Silver Threads label, Alterations Volume One, gets a second run. This double album compiles the artist’s 2025 ‘slow album’, work created by Jo and shared track-by-track from January until June. The project began as a response to “bleak and often distressing times”. Alongside each of the five album tracks compiled on the first CD, Jo created “Remnants”, reworks and original tracks from “discarded audio and coincidental field recordings” that were shared exclusively with her Bandcamp subscribers, and these seven tracks are compiled on the second CD. The 8-page booklet includes extracts from The Pattern, writing that accompanied the subscriber-exclusive Remnants packages. Alterations Volume One was Moonbuilding’s 2025 album of the year. In Futurism Restated, Philip Sherburne said it was, “A coherent and enveloping piece of work in which melodic motifs unfold against an ever-changing landscape of pads, drones, and arpeggios. It moves like a slow, broad river throwing off sparks at sunrise.” Electronic Sound said it was “spellbinding” and “never less than mesmerising.”