For this première edition of Apocalypse Bunker Discs, my Lockaway is Johnny Vercoutre, a jazz and vintage car enthusiast and former proprietor of Time For Tea, a tea room-cum-time capsule which attracted a cult clientèle and much intrigue in Shoreditch, East London. 

Featuring Johnny Dankworth, Delia Derbyshire, Black Box Recorder and stories of a rubber clad alter ego, cantankerous idols and his Jaguar 'Grace'.

If you would also like to brainwash people with your taste in music, please send me three of your surprising, profound, under-heard choices with your reasons, stories to: apocalypsebunkerdiscs@gmail.com 


Production and ''Neath the Comatose Lagoon' by Oliver Turtle
Artwork by Oliver Turtle & Eve Marguerite Allen

Johnny — Jazz Cruising Tea Saloneur

For this instalment of Apocalypse Bunker Discs, my Lockaway is Teodora, a filmmaker and musician with the band The Shadracks. We focus on Yugoslav music culture and lesser known '60s gems.

Teodora — Yugoslav Punks, a Korean Psych Pioneer & a Liverpudlian Messiah

Thomas Laroche, representative of Research Laboratories and keeper of thirteen colonies of dermestes maculates beetles, is our Lockaway for this edition. He presented the Bunker with a mystery package containing several occult trinkets released by Research Laboratories, including: a Sexton Ming cassette tape titled 'Mad Sod the Scientist VS Proffecer Pipping-hot', a cassette by Creep of Paris containing an Elvis Presley séance and a Satanic Whoopee Cushion, all of which will be sampled in this show. Thomas's selections range from the explosively abrasive to the candycoated hypernormal; an extracorporeal music concrète nomad, a witty American Diner protest singer and a tape hoarding inventor of electric clothing, to tease just three of his high-intrigue selections...

To further explore the world of Research Laboratories:
https://researchlaboratories.tumblr.com

Apocalypse Bunker Discs is the alternative 'you know what' for the age of rising sea levels, where— let's face it — the castaway is far more likely to find themselves marooned in an underground hiding place than a paradisal isle. Due to the nuclear storms playing havoc with the satellites up above, Wifi rationing will have to be enforced, allowing for 8 selections of music, a film, ebook and artwork to provide solace. 

Oliver Turtle is your subterranean guide, mediating the Lockaway's Underheard musical transmissions.

If you too would like to brainwash people:
apocalypsebunkerdiscs@gmail.com

Chapters:
1
Introducing... Thomas Laroche of Research Laboratories
Apocalypse Bunker Discs (Theme: Beneath the Comatose Lagoon)
2
Op. 50 Requiem Of Art (Aus "Celtic") Fluxorum Organum II
Henning Christiansen
3
Fatanarchy On Airtube
Evil Moisture & Hanatarash
4
Domestic Maculates Beetles
Thomas Laroche on...
5
Shake it Off
Taylor Swift
6
Population 1
Tomato du Plenty
7
The New Restaurant
Malvina Reynolds
8
The Seddon Tapes Vol. 1
Captain Maurice Seddon
9
21½ Minutes In Berlin / 23 Minutes In Brussels
Suicide
10
Mad Sod The Scientist Breaks Bad
Sexton Ming (Research Laboratories)
11
Gavia Immer (Elvis Presley Séance)
Creep of Paris (Research Laboratories)
12
Spiritual Enlightenment Through Inactivity
Thomas Laroche (Research Laboratories)
13
Diasporas
Ghédalia Tazartès
14
I Think We're Alone Now
Tiffany
15
Thee Satanic Whoopee Cushion
Eudocimus Ruber  (Research Laboratories)
16
The Naked Vampire
Jean Rollin
17
Crotch Batterie
Pierre Raph
18
May Your Piss Be Gentle
Mark Lowe
19
House Dust #1
Thomas Laroche (Research Laboratories)

Thomas (Research Laboratories) — Electrical Clothing, an Elvis Séance & a Satanic Whoopee Cushion

Sound Designer, Social Commentator and Menace Tom Alcott joins me on a digressive musical exploration of Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London, during which we discuss droning Post-Apocalyptic Gothscapes, a nomadic visionary creator of an electronic dulcimer, a Northumbrian experimental folk hero, the 'endless palette' of field recordings and Tom shares a clip from his jurassic cling-film magnum opus...

We also play fictional song title ping pong, speculate liberally on the inhabitants of the cemetery (both dead and almost) and offer 'out-the-box' (⚰️) macabre musings on 21st century mortality. 

Apocalypse Bunker Discs ☢️💿 is the alternative 'you know what' 🏝💿 for the age of rising sea levels, where— let's face it — the castaway is far more likely to find themselves marooned in an underground hideaway than on a paradisal isle. Due to nuclear storms playing havoc with the satellites up above, Wifi rationing will have to be enforced, permitting the download of 8 selections of music, a film, ebook and artwork to provide solace.

Oliver Turtle is your subterranean guide, mediating the Lockaway's Underheard musical transmissions.

Tom Alcott is presently developing a soundtrack for 'The Tattoo House', a short film directed by Jack Ruthenberg, which can be previewed here: https://www.jruthenberg.co.uk/video

If you too would like to brainwash people:
apocalypsebunkerdiscs@gmail.com

Tom — A Cemetery Psychoramble featuring Champagne Charlie, FTSE the Dog and a Corduroy Batsuit

In a slight digression from the usual Bunkering I have recorded a new show exploring the figure of the ‘Outsider’ in music, in the term's broader sense. At first I focused on unusual tales: psychic composers, self professed extraterrestrials and diy instrument makers, however came to consider the Outsider as also describing figures who were marginalised: exiles, nomads and the oppressed. At the end of this collation I felt unsure about grouping together people who are 'different', but hope the compression of all these alternative visions inspires some fresh perspectives.

This programme was originally produced in a shorter format for Angel Radio down in Havant, which has a pre-1964 license, hence the focus on pre-Beatles artists.

Featuring: Joe Meek, Rosemary Brown, Sun Ra, Vince Taylor, Screaming Lord Sutch, Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Connie Converse, eden ahbez, Moondog, John Fahey, Washington Phillips, Bunker Hill, Link Wray, Chiyo Ishii, Chiyo and the Crescents, Dorothy Ashby, Rae Bourbon, Hasil Adkins, Sophie Tucker, Lydia Mendoza, Tejano Music, Hafize Leskovicu, Albanian Saze Music, Shin Joong Hyeon, The Cherry Sisters, Songs in the Key of Z, Irwin Chusid, Leona Anderson, Robert Graettinger, Raymond Scott, Ivor Cutler, Malvina Reynolds

An Exploration of the Musical 'Outsider'

Hannah White & Stephen Shiell work together as Blanc Sceol (meaning white temporary shelter). They are certified Deep Listening® practitioners, a discipline that applies meditation principles to sound, developed by the innovative composer Pauline Oliveros. In addition to facilitating Deep Listening® workshops and Sound Walks, Blanc Sceol perform variously, describing their work as ‘Psychosonographic, expressing our experience of place, with field recordings, self-created instruments, found objects, voice and text.’   

Past performances have involved demonstrations of Palaeolithic instruments, marauding animal choirs and fishing for sounds at the wetlands. Expect a deep excavation into the human psyche across their choices and an exploration of their sound awareness foremothers. ~ From time expansion to silence sculpting & the cosmic ripplings of tea ~  
For past work and future workshops & performances see:
https://www.blancsceol.co.uk  

To hear Blanc Sceol & Conny Prantera’s Animal Choir, performed at Café Oto in full: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkUA8DLytLc 

To hear Blanc Sceol’s ‘Roar’ performed at Conway Hall in full: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vkmTaBQtZI

To hear Blanc Sceol’s ‘Scorched’, performed at New River Studios in full: 
https://soundcloud.com/blanc-sceol/scorched-live-performance-at-skronkfest-2018 

Episode Chapters:

00 Theme Music: Beneath The Comatose Lagoon (00m 00s)
01 Introducing... Hannah & Stephen of Blanc Sceol (00m 47s) 
02 Beautiful Cosmos — Ivor Cutler (03m 03s)
03 Wolf— Ánde Somby (12m 26s) 
04 Tiger Balm — Annea Lockwood (24m 32s) 
05 Bye Bye Butterfly — Pauline Oliveros (34m 00s)
06 Sustained Piece — Spontaneous Music Orchestra led by John Stevens (44m 06s)
07 The Animal Choir— Blanc Sceol & Conny Prantera (49m 35s)
08 Songs & Views of the Magnetic Garden — Alvin Curran (52m 42s)
09 The Fools Sermon — Daniel Higgs (58m 24s)
10 Empty Your Pockets — The International Nothing (1h 06m 00s)
11 7-Methoxy-β-Carboline: (Telepathine) — Coil (1h 11m 15s)
12 All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There — The Caretaker (1h 19m 19s)
13 Latcho Drom  — Dir. Tony Gatlif (1h 25m 06s)
14 Roar — Blanc Sceol (1h 31m 56s)
15 House — Rachel Whiteread (1h 33m 50s)
16 The Drowned World — JG Ballard (1h 40m 40s)
17 Scorched— Blanc Sceol (1h 43m 50s)

Apocalypse Bunker Discs is the alternative 🏝’You know what' 💿  for the age of rising sea levels, where— let's face it — the castaway is far more likely to find themselves marooned in an underground hiding place than a paradisal isle. Due to the nuclear storms playing havoc with the satellites up above, Wifi rationing will have to be enforced, allowing for 8 selections of music, a film, ebook and artwork to provide solace.   

Oliver Turtle is your subterranean guide, mediating the Lockaway's Underheard musical transmissions. 

If you too would like to brainwash people:
apocalypsebunkerdiscs@gmail.com

Blanc Sceol — Musical Metamorphoses, an Arctic 'Joiking' Lawyer & a Post-Internet Psychedelic Bard

For this Instalment our Lockaway is Charlotte Wendy Law, an artist specialising in acts of Decreation. Our download ration consultation looks both back to the sounds of Palaeolithic caves and forward to the sounds of interplanetary refugees to forge a new way of life for the bunker.

Her choices range from an animistic synth drone pioneer who levitated the odd handbag, an uncompromising composer who developed his own style of ‘organic music’ and a multimedia chronicle of a recently conceived religion, to help inspire her to construct her own subterranean pantheon of gods...

Charlotte’s work draws on ‘queer nomadism, alchemical processes, deep listening and quiet observation. cwl combines live art, sound, voice, and moving image to create work that continually blurs the boundaries between body and landscape, seeking to share a sense of enchantment and solidarity with the natural world.’

For more of Charlotte’s work see:
charlottewendylaw.net

To hear Charlotte’s film ‘Raft’ in full:
youtu.be/gPA9Qc_c5Js

For Charlotte’s Cassette Release, ‘Ice Since Fire’:
linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/ice…ince-fire

Apocalypse Bunker Discs ☢️💿 is the alternative 🏝💿 for the age of rising sea levels, where— let's face it — the castaway is far more likely to find themselves marooned in an underground hiding place than a paradisal isle. Due to the nuclear storms playing havoc with the satellites up above, Wifi rationing will have to be enforced, allowing for 8 selections of music, a film, ebook and artwork to provide solace.

Oliver Turtle is your subterranean guide, mediating the Lockaway's Underheard musical transmissions. 
https://linktr.ee/apocalypsebunkerdiscs

Episode Chapters:
00 Theme Music: Beneath The Comatose Lagoon (00m 00s)
01 Introducing... Charlotte Wendy Law, Artist (01m 00s)
02 Agathe Max - Rêves Perdus (04m 42s)
03 ‘Vince The Metalhead Coven Leader of Dartmoor Prison’ (16m 10s)
04 Éliane Radigue - Triptych (19m 05s)
05 Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music (29m 28s)
06 Laurie Anderson - Walk the Dog (39m 00s) 07 Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End(45m 52s)
08 Sun Ra - China Gates (52m 48s)
09 Bow Gamelan Ensemble - Concrete Barges (01h 00m 03s)
10 Julius Eastman - Gay Guerrilla (01h 09m 35s)
11 📖 Maya Deren - Divine Horsemen; The Living Gods of Haiti (01h 17m 12s)
12 🖼 Ana Mendieta - Silheuta Series (01h 31m 20s)
13 🎞 Werner Herzog - The Wild Blue Yonder (01h 41m 10s)
14 Charlotte Wendy Law - Raft (01h 51m 30s)

Charlotte — 70s Zenwaves, Thames Barge Gamelan & Andromeda Blues

For this Instalment our Lockaway is Dominic Simpson, a ‘node within the leftfield London music scene’ and native Hackneyite chronicling matters at the heart of the ‘Crapital’. Dominic wields guitar, piano and clarinet on stage, battling with Theresa May speeches cut-up into hypnotic mantras under the moniker Dream Maps.  

Dominic’s approach to his bunker ration strings together several musical epiphanies which he sees as characterising his life before the apocalypse, featuring a visionary composer who assembled an orchestra of 100 guitarists, a sonic butcher who transforms Muzak hits into macabre Frankenstein dirges and a 30 strong band conjuring the spirit of Ancient Sudan through a Prog Rock lens. 

For more of Dominic’s music see:
https://dreammaps1.bandcamp.com

For A Hackney Autobiography Project:
https://www.ahackneyautobiography.org.uk

For Dominic’s Writing:
http://goodnightlondon.blogspot.com

Apocalypse Bunker Discs is the alternative 🏝’You know what' 💿 for the age of rising sea levels, where— let's face it — the castaway is far more likely to find themselves marooned in an underground hiding place than a paradisal isle. Due to the nuclear storms playing havoc with the satellites up above, Wifi rationing will have to be enforced, allowing for 8 selections of music, a film, ebook and artwork to provide solace.   Oliver Turtle is your subterranean guide, mediating the Lockaway's Underheard musical transmissions. 

linktr.ee/apocalypsebunkerdiscs 

Episode Chapters:
00 Theme Music: Beneath The Comatose Lagoon (00m 00s)  
01 Introducing... Dominic Simpson, Node of the Leftfield Scene (00m 54s) 
02 Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat (02m 18s) 
03 + Broadcast & The Focus Group - Seancing (07m 38s)
04 The Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit) (08m 23s)
05 Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow’s Parties (14m 08s)
06 + Nico & Serge Gainsbourg - Striptease (18m 20s) 
07 + Cornelius Cardew - Treatise (22m 55s)
08 Codeine - Cave In (25m 30s)
09 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm (29m 35s)
10 + Glen Branca - Lesson No. 1 (36m 04s)
11 Land of Kush - Iceland Spar (37m 40s)
12 V/VM - Lady in Red (Dancing With Meat) (41m 47s)
13 + V/VM - True (45m 22s)
14 + Oneohtrix Point Never - There’s Nobody Here (46m 33s) 
15 Terry Riley - In C (48m 16s) 
16 Dream Maps - 100 Bars in C-Minor / UVB-76 (54m 47s)
17 + Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra (01h 02m 18s)
18 Arthur C Clarke - Reads From 2001 (01h 04m 23s)
19 + Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers - Blue Danube Waltz (01h 06m 40s)
20 Centreprise - A Hackney Autobiography (01h 07m 36s)

Dominic — Goth de Burgh, Guitar Orchestras & Sampling 1.0

Apocalypse Bunker Discs ☢️💿 is the alternative 🏝💿 for the age of rising sea levels, where the castaway is far more likely to find themselves marooned in an underground hiding place than a paradisal isle. Due to the nuclear storms playing havoc with the satellites up above, Wifi rationing will have to be enforced, allowing for 8 selections of music, a film, ebook and artwork to provide solace.

Oliver Turtle is your subterranean guide, mediating the Lockaway's Underheard musical transmissions.

https://linktr.ee/apocalypsebunkerdiscs

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