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The Liverpool based artist and musician shares a video from his forthcoming album themed around service industry jobs

Surface Industries I is the second solo album by British video, sound and installation artist Paul Rooney. It is the first in a short series of albums inspired by service industry jobs – “particularly the transient vocal interactions of everyday call centre work”, Rooney explains, “as well as the humanity and humour that endures through it all.”

The vocals, collaged throughout the record, are often taken from interviews or calls with service industry workers sourced from the early 2000s, forming tracks that continue the artist’s exploration into unpredictable narratives in mundane objects and situations. Rooney elaborates: “The album is a poignant, reflective encounter with everyday failures everyday battles, and everyday resistances, pertinent to our precarious times.”

Surface Industries I is released by Owd Scrat on 11 October.

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