Born out of a series of improvisation sessions undertaken with friends Yvette Holzwarth on violin and Max Kaplan on clarinet, with Jon-Kyle Mohr appearing later on drums, Anenon aka Brian Allen Simon’s new album Petrol was inspired by his experience of walking on the pathways that run alongside Los Angeles freeway 110. “You go up these stairs that smell like pee and then you’re almost literally walking on the freeway,” Simon explains to Sam Lefebvre in The Wire 385. “No one thinks about walking in LA, but from up there you can walk miles, all the way to Chinatown. There’s no verticality to the city. So Petrol came from thinking about LA’s tight tension, from its traffic, but also its plaintive vistas.”

Anenon was raised in LA. He founded his own Non Projects label, but his work has also been released by Ghostly International, Innovative Leisure and Brownswood. Petrol will be released by Friends Of Friends on 4 March. Subscribers to The Wire can read the full article via the online archive.