Following a last-minute cancellation by Joss Stone, we're pleased to announce that Patten, a London-based purveyor of incredibly nuanced, evocative electronica, will perform at the next Washing Line with a streamlined laptop set. Check out his music at myspace.com/pattensongs

Here's what The Wire had to say about Patten's recent album There Were Horizons:

"The music of Patten puts one in mind of miniatures. These instrumentals are built with exacting care, every part a perfect fit. They are like tiny clockwork machines that one might hold in the palm of the hand, whirring and throbbing as they unwind their musical springs. "Memory Pictures" is typical: two closely miked guitars, one Spanish, one steel, mesh together arpeggios like polished brass cogs. Over this a refrain lifts and falls. Each part generally holds one note value, so crochets, quavers and minims lock like mathmatical bricks.

The order and harmony of these pieces is charming, restful and nostalgic. The lo-fidelity of the recording only amplifies this. Opening track "Galapagos" follows a similar formula, but with one of the parts sped up on tape creating a sound reminiscent of Neu! 2s wound-up experiments. On "Two-Hands Writing" one part is played in a sub-harpsichord chime, a lilting melody drifting down unresolved through the piece. It sounds like ambidextrous automatic writing must feel to the self-hypnotised scribe.

There are variants - the fluttering backwards fairground organ snippet of "Glossary"; the harpsichord waltz of "Skydive"; the strange cheap organ riff that is entwined and tamed by piano and guitar on the enchanting "The Bullrushes". But over the 17 tracks and near hour of music on 'There Were Horizons', the listener is drawn into a simplified world of ordered purposeful harmony, as microscopic in its exquisite detail as the music of the spheres is vast and expansive in its wonder"

not bad, eh? see you there.