Really enjoying the release, and this sample Rich!!

all pieces fantastic - this one, a triumph!!

The Laborer - Se Vende.  

50 pro-dubbed orange cassettes by Tapeline Ltd, Stockport.
Mastered by Miles Whittaker (Demdike Stare), 
Hand made packages, photo's included (treatments by Joe Borreson, Dust Cloud Design, California - http://www.dustclouddesign.com/).
The package comes with a extra download code.

Pre Order:
https://analoguechat1.bandcamp.com/releases

Also available at www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk 

First release from new label, Analogue Chat - based in Spain and the Netherlands.
Second album from The Laborer (previous release: The Changing Tide on Wist Rec).
Mastered by Miles Whittaker (Demdike Stare).
Photo treatments by Joe Borreson,  ‘Dust Cloud Design’,  California (Joe has previously provided artwork for Tape Loop Orchestra).
Cassettes produced by Tapeline Ltd.
Catalogue Number:  AC001.
Release date: 1st May 2017.
Limited to 50 copies, includes free download.
Available at http://www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk and https://analoguechat1.bandcamp.com/releases

The title of the album 'Se Vende' means 'For Sale' in Spanish. I've lived in Alicante for nearly 3 years (native of Lancashire), and the remnants and consequences of the housing boom and bust are prevalent throughout the city - from the ubiquitous For Sale' signs to half-completed blocks of flats.  The three tracks are an attempt to recreate aurally the initial euphoria of the boom times and the (almost) inevitable economic collapse and slowdown. 

The title track, Se Vende, is layered with recordings from the city - flamenco guitarists on street corners, 
old 78s on antique record players at markets, the cacophony of a construction sites (including concrete mixers - this is musique concrete after all!) - augmented by tape loop manipulations, cheap analogue synths and keyboards, off-kilter 909 Rhythms, and some grade 1 piano playing. 

The songs Chimes pt1 and 2 follow the diy ethos of the above, but this time the using recordings taken from Clot de Galvany, the former site of the Republican Defensive Line during the Spanish Civil War and now a nature reserve, located a few miles outside the city centre.  The ambient sounds of the bunkers and trenches were incorporated into the tracks. Chimes Pt 1 features the words of Elsa Hasselgarde from Sweden.

Play loud and wear a hard (house) hat.

Track list:

1. Se Vende (For Sale) 20:06
2. Chimes Pt 1 11:07
3. Chimes Pt 2 8:16

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Excerpt from my latest sound installation "Incognito - Monologues of the private public self". The work explores privacy in the age of the internet, when presented live records the audience creating a layer of audio CCTV that is the basis of the sound piece.

Incognito excerpt

Third track from FWD19 - Jeremy Keenan 'Scripts'

'Forwind’s twentieth release sees sound artist Jeremy Keenan make his label debut with a half hour of radiant, carefully crafted electro-acoustics'

'Buy' will take you to Bandcamp where the full release is available now.

Scripts

Zapffe

Taken from the upcoming album 'The Epiphanies' by Bill Seaman...

The Epiphanies...

Composing memory
The backs of my hands
Headlights slowly turning, illuminating the branches
Skin (slow)
The folds of eros
Slow motion in darkness
Quietly touching
Slow moving fog
A quiescence of obsolescence
Dark wet trees and angled lines of light
The collapse of time
Hidden memories and breathing
Luminous silent stasis
An epiphany of epiphanies

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Seaman – Piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and Ableton Live abstractions. Production.
Owen Sidney Richardson — Contrabass and Electric Bass guitar library 
Craig Tattersall  — Synth Bass library  
Robert Ellis Geiger  — Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn library  
Jonas Braasch  — Horn library 
Ciompy Quartet – Violin library 
Daniel Howe – Distant Guitar on 14
Design by Daniel Crossley
Photography by Nieves Mingueza
Mastered by James Plotkin

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I often work by making libraries of particular kinds of sounds or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I often shift the time and transpose individual samples to make them work with the other material. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 20 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, delay, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. Additionally I build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This overall method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively. In this case, the music is more sparse than many of my other recordings.

The Epiphanies started with some long titles like An Epiphany Related to the Back of the Hand. I later came to the notion of just titling the album The Epiphanies, and making the titles shorter. When I searched the title I was excited to see that James Joyce had done a series of short poems with the same overarching name. - Seaman 2017

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- Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Daniel Crossley and Fluid Audio

- This album is dedicated to the memories of Rick Tear, Ranulph and Aartje Glanville, Otto Piene and David Bowie.

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www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.billseaman.com
www.nievesmingueza.com

The Epiphanies

Bill Seaman - An Epiphany Of Epiphanies

1.  Dravier - Field Composition #1 (Silent Versions)
2. Jake Muir - Green Eyes (Sferic)
3. Deepchord - Immersion I (Astral Industries)
4. Savvas Ysatis - Alright - Surgeon's Keith 4 Nat Mix - (Tresor)
5. Optom - Item 2 (NV Rec)
6. CynthLab - Barrio Obrero (Self Release/Band Camp)
7. DBR - Third Quater (NV Rec)
8. Shaahin Saba Dipole - Fervor (Shimmering Moods Records)
9. Parallelism - 11 -dB (Shimmering Moods Records)
10. Giuseppe Falivene - Untitled 11 (Shimmering Moods Records)
11. Federico Mosconi - Melody not Melody (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
12. Mind over MIDI - Reversion (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
13. Andrew Sherwell - Ektenia 04 v4
14. Kirill Mazhai - Body Image (Forthcoming Fluid Audio)
15. Kirill Mazhai - N59.957534 E30.323258 (Shimmering Moods Records)
16. Rime Trails - Sanctum III (Shimmering Moods Records)

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #24

Analogue Chat is an independent record label based in Spain and The Netherlands releasing limited edition cassettes.  
Artists are invited to record sounds from their own ‘medio ambiente’ to tell their personal narrative in the form electronic soundscapes or traditional song structures.

Any demos:  send to analoguechat@gmail.com

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