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Feedback Moves returns with a reissue of Pat Thomas’ 1997 album New Jazz Jungle: Remembering.

2 x 12" vinyl w/ liner notes and interview by Edward George (The Strangeness of Dub, Black Audio Film Collective).

Edition of 500.

Mastered by Beau Thomas @ Ten Eight Seven.

Distribution by Rubadub.

Pat Thomas - New Jazz Jungle: Remembering

Route Words: Where are our voices aloud? is a new sound artwork by London-based artist Shenece Oretha produced by Art on the Underground. The work has been developed over a period of collaboration and community engagement, working with the Mayor of London’s Culture and Community Spaces at Risk programme, New Beacon Books, Rumi’s Cave and The RecordShop.

You can hear this new sound work through a series of listening events at Finsbury Park station and Wood Green station. It is also accessible online via the QR code on this card. 

Route Words centres on Britain’s oldest Black bookshop and publisher, New Beacon Books, in Finsbury Park. The work draws on New Beacon’s publications catalogue, quoting from the texts of Erna Brodber, Lorna Goodison, John la Rose, Kamau Brathwaite and Dennis Mitchell. Route Words hopes to share writing that speaks to the importance of space and language to a range of communities, their histories and collective futures. 

The artist’s research with New Beacon Books extends to conversations with Rumi’s Cave, a social space in Brent and The RecordShop, a recording studio in Wood Green – spaces where words and voice are central to their community formation, purpose and ongoing work.

People involved and working with these spaces have been invited to contribute layers of story and poetry to the sound work. The range of contributors highlights the voice’s role in advocacy and the importance of exchange and mutual support across these spaces in London. The collaborators are Imruh Bakari, Margaret Busby, Greta Dapkute, Rakaya Fetuga, Sagal Gabay, Olivia Opara, Glaiza Padulla, Mary Otumahana aka WondRWomN, JAGO XYEN and Belinda Zhawi.


For further information please visit: art.tfl.gov.uk

Shenece Oretha: Route Words. Where are our voices aloud?

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

Jose Macabra Soundtrack for Kris Canavan performance at Chronic Illness Aug 2025

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents radical 1970s minimalist music by Julius Eastman and Frederic Rzewski from the 2016 London Contemporary Music Festival. Immerse yourself in Eastman's recently rediscovered hour-long blissed-out 'Femenine' [sic], composed in 1974 and here given its UK premiere by Apartment House. And vocalist Elaine Mitchener joins the ensemble for Frederic Rzewski's response to the 1971 Attica prison riots, his raw, punchy 'Coming Together'.

Rzewski Coming Together/ Attica performed by Apartment House - BBC R3 Hear & Now at LCMF DEC 2016

"We selected music that we love from across the board really. From Nicole Willis to DJ Spinna to Tony Allen to some cheeky edits that we have done for our use plus more up-tempo stuff. How we would generally approach a live dj set really." - @tama-sumo & @uzuri

Full Q&A: http://www.discwoman.com/home/discwoman-25-x-lakuti-tama-sumo/

DISCWOMAN 25 x Lakuti & Tama Sumo

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents cutting-edge New Music recorded in the round at LSO St Luke's, London on 10 Nov 2017 and broadcast 4 Jan 2018.

Charles Mitchener: duet 1 
Elaine Mitchener (voice)
Neil Charles (double bass)

Charles-Mitchener improvisation 2 - BBC R3 Open Ear 10.11.17

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Bobby Watson-Reach'n Search (Aroop Roy rework)

Welcome to the first episode of Art in the Age of Black Girl Magic!  Today Bolanle Tajudeen interviews Marcia Micheal who is a London-based interdisciplinary artist mainly using the discipline of photography to analyse the wide and ever-changing parameters of the black family album, depicting black British life in a highly personal approach. 

They discuss Marcia's artistic projects including the Object of my Gaze, in which she is retrieving and reconstructing the historical experiences of her matrilineal family. 

For more information about Marcia's work, please visit: https://blackgirlmagic.art/artist-interviews/episode-one-marcia-michael and you can follow Bolanle Tajudeen @BlackBlossomss

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Ain Bailey

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